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Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Land Colonization and Rural Credits of the State of California: November 29, 1916 The legislature of California, in 1915, passed a law providing for a commission to Investigate and consider the question of W coloni Investigation zation, and the various forms of land banks, cooperative provided for credit unions, and other rural credit system adopted or proposed in this country or elsewhere, with especial view to the needs of the rural communities of this state. In accordance with this measure the following report has been prepared. Within the last five years questions of land tenure and land settlement have assumed a hitherto unthought of importance in the Importance of United States. The causes for this are the disappear land settlement ance of free, fertile public land; the rising prices of in America privately-owned farm lands; the increase in tenant farming and a clearer recognition of its dangers; and the increasing attractions of city life which threaten the social impairment of rural communities by causing young people to leave the farms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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