Kan. Offers Free Land to Lure Residents

[ringmastery]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=7&u=/ap/20040323/ap_on_re_us/modern_homesteading_1

MARQUETTE, Kan. - Dean and Jennifer Krehbiel are modern-day pioneers on the prairie. The couple are building a home in this small rural town after being offered free land as part of a giveaway aimed at revitalizing Marquette.

The idea was borrowed from the homesteading days of the 1800s, when the promise of land for the taking brought settlers by the droves to the Great Plains.

"It was enough of a bonus to allow us to look at the option of building. It sure caught our interest," said Dean Krehbiel, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (news - web sites) conservationist who was looking for a small town near his job in Salina, 30 miles from Marquette.

[SoCalDem]

1. Free land is fine.. If you ALREADY have money

But where are they going to WORK?? if they do not have money already ??


Good paying jobs in Kansas are $8 hr jobs..

[historian]

2. they could throw in a yacht and i still wouldnt go

[mitchtv]

3. maybe theimmigrants can come and squeese some production

out of the land. I'd like to start with a trendy gay resort.(legalize hemp production, that'll get' m back also)I already have some bucks, just retired to Socal from Nor cal, and am ready to leave already.

[mitchtv]

4. let'm put some adds in the spanish and chinese media

they'll get takers.