Show THE THE RECLAMATION WORK The TIle Daily Dall Consular and Trade Re Reports ports of recent date contains some In Interesting Interesting ing information on the value of oe the reclamation work that has ha been cu 1 d on und r the national l irrigation at ad act t Jt It says oC Ing to official figures since the f law was waa as enacted by congress in tn 1902 eight towns have havo been bull built and people have havo settled on wh t f were ere desert lands To prepare tho the way AVay for these settlers l miles of bran railways have been een built 1267 miles mU s of canals have hae been dug many man manof of Which carry whole s e eYen ven en tunnels have hae been excavated Jt is estimated that the territory em embraced I braced brt eil in What Is known as the arid V regions of the United States covers acres of which about 60 acres are subject to irrigation I which when hen properly supplied with I water ater can be converted converted into farms fully as productive pr as ns lands In h the most favored sections s Th fIgures are arc startling but they are well within the bounds of Peo People People pie who J v visited the reclaimed dis district trl have been eri astounded ed at the rapid rapidity rapidity rapidIty ity with which they Pley have hae been peen filled flied by byI y I seters set ers Arid And they have been 1 sno no less astounded at the tho quantity q and the tire quality of the crops produced 1 r on soil soll that before it was under under Irrigation irrigation gation was covered COY ed over with willi gray sagebrush h and green greasewood d The arid country has indeed been made wonderfully productive Now according to the authority we have quoted qu ted a bill that has for tor Its Us pur purpose pur purpose purpose pose the reclaiming of swamp lands la In Arkansas Arl Indiana Minnesota Wiscon Wisconsin sin New NOW Jersey North Carolina South Carolina and other states will be pushed at a the next session of ot con congress congress gress It is asserted that the amount of OC overflowed d and swamp swamp lands ands to be reclaimed is acres acre the reclamation reclamation mation matlon of at which would increase the theland theland theland land value more than the annual crop value and if It subdivided Into farms would supply families with homes and put people on lands now practically worthless If our recollection is not at it t fault fa lt such a bill was w s introduced introduce at th the last session of ef congress as an amendment to the national irrigation act It t pro provided pro provided provided vided for tor a diversion of at part of at the funds from the sate sale of at government land in the western arid and semiarid states to swamp land reclamation in inthe Inthe Inthe the older states st tes The swamp land states named contain no government land Manifestly it would be unfair to devote irrigation money derived from western states to any such pur purpose purpose purpose pose If It some other method metho 1 Ing the swamps can be found even evert though practically ny all an of the swamp swampland swampland swampland land is owned by private Individuals als alsI there will be b little objection In view I of the immense benefits that will ac accrue accrue crue crul to the nation at large |