What if draining the swamp, the real reason to do so was for agricultural land?

in 1907 the swamp lands of the U.S. were up for grabs for just this purpose: http://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2009-09/wrigjo0001swaove/wrigjo0001swaove.pdf

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Seems Arkansas had a lot of plots up for grabs, and the land was only drained if the owner wanted to foot the bill.

Good way to have a swamp and not develop it…