Show some of the localities chat owe most to irrigation took the greatest pains to conceal the fact to tho the worlds fair they exhibited the marvelous products of lands that were worthless until water mado them productive but feared to tell tho the truth about it least immigration bo discouraged we confidently fi predict that within five years matters will go to tho the other extreme and that proprietors of non irrigated lands will be found claiming that their products was raised by irrigation this will occur whon when the public learns as it surely will and irn irrigation gation lands aro are barmore far more valuable than those dependent on precarious rain fall it will then be difficult to sell lands not irrigated in competition with those where crops cropis me azo secured by the ditch and of course men will lie to force their land on vio the market just as some soine have concealed the truth for a simlar purpose in tho the present in instance stanco land boomers are not reformers they simply aim to make the most of conditions as thoy they find them irrigation age |