Show lION DATA Importance of Responding to t Census Bureau Requests Washington Jan 18 The preliminary prel mi nary work of the census office in lil col looting data relative to toC the arid and regions shows that during the past ten tan years vast areas arosa have bf d bt rt reclaimed by irrigation tion both by ditching from running streams and drilling ft subterranean WU en only a a few ago agu th the sage Ace elI for fot existence x In r h the Uie midst of ot a Waste Vas e of alkali and sand today y are fields of waving grain and aid blossoming orange groves groven s Hundreds of miles mUes of canals and ditches have been constructed hundreds of wells have haye been sunk gunk and thousands of acres of land Jand have been cultivated in zones where once onca the desolation of Sahara reigned Moistened M by b fresh waters and fer fertilized by b the rich silt of the swift mountain m streams one trackless wastes and desolate de valleYs in the arid southwest have become as fertile as the famous valley alley of the Nile and send forth crops of endless variety and ex ox exceeding abundance Irrigation Is Ie intensive farming fanning Where the water supply is ample it itis itis itis is s sure r farming fanning There are so IO r failures and crops are enormous The experienced experienced experienced irrigator is like the trained engineer with his hand on tho the lever The movements of his hand ham regulate the amount of water supplied to his fields finds as R those of the engineer control his In most of the irrigable sections of the west fertilizers have neviS never nev been bern used although the land l d has IMS born been constantly cultivated for over two centuries In many sections fields may maybe maybe maybe be seen which have yielded successive crops of or wheat for forty years and show no diminution of productive strength Wonderful is shown in the methods of constructing canals JS dame and j pumpIng machinery and in the manner of distributing water Modern inventions in machinery have greatly gr Uy lessened the time labor and cost of 0 construction and management and made possible many gigantic enter pas of land reclamation and water Mountains have been tunneled and whole rivers have been lifted from their beds and spread over the valleys precisely ely as wanted High up in the ranges and on the elevated plateaus immense storage reservoirs have been ct d to impound the flood floodwaters waters of au the streams so 0 that t Bt the thirsty land below shall shaJI not suffer dur due during dueing ing InI the long rainless summer As the successful solution of the problem of conservation of flood waters means the reclamation of millions of acres aces of public lend land the people naturally naturally I ally ask the government to promote I measures having this end nd In view To this demand em nd the government responds Land Lands containing excellent sites have been n set aside de and a thorough study of the sources source and aM permanence of the t water supply of arid regions has Bas been made mads to enable en congress ron j to t legislate with intelligence upon UpiOn this thin Important subject In aid of this work the twelfth census us will endeavor comprehensIvely to show the present pres Ot condition c and values of agriculture in the arid aid and regions region o n the tha length irrigable ble extent and cost of the various canals canale 8 wels W ls and ditches the character volume and constancy of or water supply systems employed e In distribution d amount raid TM for water and aDd the th crops acreage ge and yield of or irrigated farms This Tl effort elfort will wilt be successful if those interested in irrigation shall heartily cooperate with the census ceneus office and Ita It agents Within a brief period the main schedules for tor taking the census of Irrl irrigation gallon gation win will be distributed and Director M requests request that all recipients prepare properly to nil fill them theta out and to return them promptly |