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Drainage push to convert swamps into farms across the nation
The Steenerson bill would authorize government drainage projects starting with about 31 million dollars in revenues from 1905 and an annual outlay near half a million. The plan targets vast swamp lands from Florida to the Midwest, promising new farms and homes, with the Klamath project draining 136000 acres to create over a thousand farms. The Cameron elm near the Capitol stands despite efforts to cut it, thanks to Don Cameron’s Senate speech defending it.
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Klamath Project
Geological Survey
Reclamation Service
Great Swamp
Steenerson
Don” Cameron
Nation
Washington
Cameron
Washington City
Capitol Grounds
National Botanic Garden
White House
the Department of Agri
Holland
Zuyder Zee
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Florida
Everglades
New Jersey
Virginia
Ilinois
Michigan
Iowa
Minnesota
Arkansas
United States
Indiana
Illinois
Capitol
Ben Cameron
Pennsylvania
Senate Chamber
Senator Cameron
Congressional Record
Committee On the Library
Republican Party
James Donald Cameron
Simon Cameron
Lincoln
Don
Middletown
Senate
Grant
Elija B. Washburn
Hamilton Fish
George S. Boutwell
Wm. A. Richardson
Benjamin H. Bristow
Lot M. Morrill
John A. Rawlins
Wm. W. Belknap
Alphonzo Taft
Adolph E. Borie
George M. Robeson
John A. J. Creswell
James W. Marshall
Marshall Jewell
James N. Tyner
E. Rockwood Hoar
Amos T. Akerman
George H. Williams
Edward Pierrpont
Jacob D. Cox
Columbus Delano
Zachariah Chandler
Hayes
Wheeler
Garfield
Arthur