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Show i sum to pnwecute engineering experi-merits, experi-merits, and the published account of these Investigations have added to popular interest and knowledge. Private Pri-vate capital has been enlisted, and great fortune, especially in California, have been realized through some manipulation mani-pulation of a water supply, or stme achievement in engineering, whereby an abundant irrigation was provided for an arid dirtrict. It will be a prirne object of the coming com-ing convention to discus and disseminate dissemi-nate a knowledge of method and possi-bi'i'ie. possi-bi'i'ie. Jlifferent portions of thn country coun-try give rise to difTrnt probloms. In (tomb places tho artesian tyttom la important; im-portant; in oilier the diversion of rivers riv-ers ard large streams from remote regions re-gions is the only dependence; in still others water storage Is the only re- source; while in some cases all the ' method are app'icable. The Wrighl law of California will come in for careful care-ful consideration. This law expresses the tmigt advanced thought, and answer ans-wer to the most highly daveloped nee In connected with the subject of irrigation ir-rigation as a social problem. It provide pro-vide for the formation of irrigation districts dis-tricts with municipal powers aud all necessary oflirer similar to a county corporation, so that irrigating expenses miiy be madn a public burden liquidated liquidat-ed by taxation in the ordinary way. Such a law seems well calculated to ca'ry out the highest and best ends of Irrigation aud it deserves earnest attention. at-tention. One of the mont notable Item of but ines proposed for the consideration of the convention, especially when its magnitude it taken into account, ia the ceding to the respective states and territories the arid lands which lie within their boundaries. It is reasonable reason-able to suopoiie that the congress of the United States will vory carefully aud respectfully consider auy proposition that may emeuate from such a large and representative body, lint there are numerous obstacles 'u the way of states and territories carrying out the purposes of such a grant which ought to he considered before the recommendation recommen-dation to tho general government is made. Th"se obstacles lie in the fact that the puplic land system of the United Stales, from the very nature of tho case, have grown up into a most comprehensive, elaborate and exact system. There are innumerable provisions pro-visions tha: have been adopted as the rcsultofyearsfde.iperier.ee. There is I a vast accumulation of books, plats and records, all having become necessary In the transaction of the business. There are rulings ud cu.'toms that tho public land department has grown into familiarity famil-iarity wi'h a a practical drill in the discharge of current busi-nes busi-nes There are hundreds and even thousands of nun who have been engaged for years in the transaction transac-tion of the puhlio land business, and thi'ir knowledge and experience are invaluable in-valuable in the, process of conveying title from the government to the claimant. claim-ant. Allowing that there are at least T.'iO Ono.OOO of acres of arid land, and that each i tate ami territory would receive re-ceive in fee himplo what lay within its Routines, it would seem indispensable that each state should set up a land do-partmoul do-partmoul for itself. In each state there would bo some new laws aud regulations regula-tions imposed as a condition of investiture. invest-iture. This would necessarily give rise to prolixity and possible confusion. Ench sta'o would lack the experience aud practice accumulated by the gen- eral government; though they might be greatly aided by having duplicates of all the necessary books, plats and records used by the government. Hence while there will be some advantages ad-vantages appertaining to a local ownership owner-ship aud dispensation of the public lands, nnd while tho sum derived from sales would greatly aid each commonwealth common-wealth in the work of reclamation and other improvement, yet it might be well to consider some kind of a composite plan whereby the proposed advantage might be obtained in connection with the coatinued operation and oversight of tho vast aud well drilled land department depart-ment of the general government. It ought to be possible to ascertain just what advantages we hope to derive from the asquisitinu, and then frame all. rnative propositions, one to over THE IRRIGATION CONVENTION. It is scarcely realized by tho publio that ont of the largest conventions ever held in the United States, one that will have momentous interc-its in hand, mesurcs fraught with iinmer.aely important im-portant coussquences, will assemble in Salt Lake City in September next, from the 15th to the 17th iuclusivu. Representing Repre-senting the entire territory west of the Missouri river, and being composed of men from each sta'o, territory, municipality munici-pality or corporation noted for their lituess in respect of intelligence and influence, in-fluence, tliuir deliberations and recommendations recom-mendations will h.ivo great weight with both congress and the country at large. I Tho selection of Utah as the location for the advantages that we seek in connection connec-tion with federal oversight, the other to cover a cession in fee simple of all arid lands, or possibly of all public lands, to the status and territories respectively. re-spectively. One thing is certain, It is far more important to the government to donate the arid lauds and a great bonus besides, be-sides, in order to facilitate a speedy rclamation, than to bold them for any considerable length of time a unprofitable unprofit-able desert wastes. By reclaiming thera they will immediately become a source of general wealth, and also become the tiiis great convention is a most happy one. both from its central position aud accessibility, aud from tho additional fact that itt pr.;t history hss been associated asso-ciated with a most successful employment employ-ment of irrigation methods, Utah being tho first sectiou of our country settled by whito people that adopted this system. The growing interest in irrigation of which this conveution it an expression aud rejut, is attributed primarily to the fact that the available r.griuultural lauds of tho rainhcit east of tho Kocky raountaiiiH aro exhausted. For years i theators of home life, diversitiad industry in-dustry and all the fruits of our most advanced civilization. There will doubtli.33 be at the convention men eminent for wisdom and comprehensive comprehen-sive views of the American land system, sys-tem, and who are familiar with the special needs of the arid regions, and opinions upon the important questions herein raised will be of especial vsluo in shaping the deliberations aud action of tho convention. the hoimisecker has been threading his way amor.,' the mountains hunting out little valleys provided with water by means of which be could make a borne and a maiu'.enatice, Tin .e little sheltered shelt-ered nook and oases are lonj ago occupied; occu-pied; but it now transpires that there are many miliums of acrt.s of fertile laud throughout tho arid region that may be reclaimed and made to blossom as the use, by diverting the rivers and larger streams, and by a careful ktor-ago ktor-ago of the annual rainfall in accordance with the more elaborate and expensive methods that have been recently employed. em-ployed. It is but natural that ia so vast a field the prevailing spirit of invention would devise many new tuetbods and conlri- I vance that would greatly facilitate and j perfect irrigating processes; and this ; greater prt ptrcdn- and siilliciency fur encountering and ovrcomin natural na-tural ol Slue!, is one of the causes that have stimulated the enterprise and capital capi-tal of the country to euu-ilaiu the hope that the entire arid region of our country coun-try can be reclaimed aud brought to the higlii-r-t state of cultivation. For several years past the general government govern-ment bas been expending cciibidcrabie |