Get 'em while they last...

The line forms at the right... (Or "queue", I guess, on the other side of the pond. ;)

Why you don't buy land sight unseen, especially in the desert West. And if you do decide you want a chunk of desert, make sure it comes with water rights, too. It's _really_ useless if you can't drill a well!

This land is private (and thus able to be sold) because of the railroad land grants dating from construction of the original transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. The railroad was given alternating sections (square-mile parcels) extending out 6 miles (IIRC) from either side of the right-of-way.