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Show Ix a lengthy later to the Denver X-'ia, upon the subject of irrigation 1 Mr. JS'. C. focker-, of the Ureeley colony, Colorado, refers to the irrigation irriga-tion in I' tali, and accepts us a fundamental funda-mental principle the conclusion, arrived ar-rived at by long experience, that itWtT bduti'fs to the proptf. This is a necessary standpoint from whicli all legislation must spring, the State or Territory, as representative of the people, claiming the right of eminent domain and legislating accordingly. Xo progress in a grand scheme of irrigation irri-gation can be carried out, unless this principle is acknowledged, and no. permanent and unrli-jiutable system of ml and regulations f"r the in;m- I agement thereof can be adopted without with-out it. |