Show IRRIGATION WORK ON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Special to tho the News The Tho work worl of ot tIne the Geological survey lurvey In carrying out the time provisions of or tho the na nn national Irrigation act has brought U It I to tho the foro COIO us as one of ot the tho great executive departments of at the Iho government with wItha n a government Irrigation fund Cund which will sili wi be bo by the end Ind of ot tho tine present fiscal year In III the tho th neighborhood of ot 2 This work must IUt be recognized as us one OliO of ot time the very vey large Internal Improvements of ot the country Although Irrigation op operations are arc confined largely to the 16 K arid and ond semiarid western stoles the tho eastern part port of time tha tho country must be more moore or less Interested for tor several reasons Men are constantly moving westward looking fur for new neS homes homeR whore where they time can cnn earn a n livelihood or become land lanti owners while business men inca are oro Interested In him seeing a development of tho the west which will vili wi afford them thor wider home inertia markets for Cur their manufactured products Time The changing of ot time the western deserts Into tens tenA of ot thousands of ot new nosy and productive small farms will vili wil not only relieve some of at tho the overcrowded sections Me lions of ut f tho the east but will wi business of oC nil ni descriptions Just as OR tho the opening of or the tho great Mississippi Valley provided a market for tor tine the American manufacturer manufacture such ns as al Secretary S WI Wl WIson WIson son says as IH can cnn be found taunt In no other oilier part of ot tho the world Already the tho Geological Survey Surcy has hUl designated some 15 large largo Irrigation projects throughout time the west where whore hugi hUI Impounding dams lama anti and ditches which will wi be as ns largo large as IR rivers are to tobo tobo bo ho constructed Work Is already com commenced commenced commenced on oa some minute of ot these theBO and tho time next two or three years year will wi see seo tho national Irrigation policy In full Cull operation Tho The 2 now nw practically avail available available able ablo for Cor Irrigation construction Is II by hy byno no 10 means m nl the limit of ot this work the time fund flint Is IA constantly growing grow In through time the sales of at western public pUblio lands butte and andas ns nil soon ai ns first Irrigation work Is completed time the cost of ot Its Is construction Will vilI begin to como come back Into the tlC fund for tor u use uso o on some santo other project H It I Is II not hot Intended that the time government t shall Give clo away the Irrigation works What Government land Is placed under tinder Ir II Irrigation will be bo given Riven time the homesteader free conditional only upon Ms I residence nod cultivation but hut tho time I t of IC put pul putting putting ting the water on aim tho time land the con construction of oC the tim dam Ilam amid the mania main ditches will he be borno borne by the tho settler nettler It I Is Itt this title businesslike feature of oC tho timo Irrigation net act which Inns has found for Cor It such support among tho the business men of tho the country OUY K 1 MITCHELL |