| Show EXTENSION OF IRRIGATION Scientific Address Before Kansas Convention Lawrenca Kan Nov 19The state irrigation convention convened here today to-day with about 100 persons in attendance attend-ance The feature of the meeting was a paper by F H Newell hydrographer of the United States geological survey sur-vey on Extension of Irrigation He declared that most of the plants constructed con-structed during the last decade had I been large enough to assume state or national importance or so small as to be of no more than individual concern and attributed the dispn ty to the tact that nearly all of the localities where water could be readily diverted had been previously seized upon so that I there remained room ony for small plants or for elaborate and expensive I undertakings which contemplated the transportation of water from a distance dis-tance But the speaker insisted that I because some of the lands most easily j I irrigated had been utilized it should not be assumed that the six million or more remaining acres in need of irrigation irri-gation should be neglected This state was declared to be primarily I prim-arily interested in common with Texas Oklahoma Colorado Nebraska the Dakotas and Montana in private irrigation I irri-gation or that species in which a farmer digs a well and pumps water by wind gasoline or steam intoa reser I voir for the supply of a greater or less number of his acres Many years I must pass in the writers opinion before be-fore the vast tract referred to could support vast canals and the like although I though that time would undoubtedly come I Mr Newell thought that much of the arid country west of Kansas could not I be irrigated on the private plan because I the ground waters so plentiful everywhere I I every-where in this state were noii to h had 11n I that region of which Utah might be considered the center and type the I smaller streams had already been diverted di-verted and only great rivers remained to be used which complicated the problem prob-lem All things considered he thought the construction of state or national works was the best way out of the difficulty |
