Show PLANS OF THE CONGRESS The Chicago Tribune learns that the National Irrigation Congress to meet In that city during the present week will propose that the general Government Gov-ernment expend 100000000 at the rate of ten or twelve millions a year In the reclamation of 75000000 acres of arid land It says the water supply Is I adequate ade-quate for the purpose That amount of land Would give 750000 families JOO acres each and make homers for por haps four millions or five millions of people I I certainly = Is worth Government Govern-ment consideration Indeed Government Govern-ment money could not be used to better bet advantage and then that would be but the beginning ofthe business because when tfI people of the East realize the whole truth they will be clamoring for greatreservoirs to stop the outflow of lciPolr outow the spring floods and to quicken he soil In the late summer I I Is safe lon lo-n that lands now being cultivated In the Mississippi valley If I they depended on irrigationand the water was convenient con-venient would return double the crops year in and year out that they do now When we go back to the time when the world was young we find that the ancients an-cients understood this question very much better than moderns and that It was possible for Babylon to cpntain Its hORt and to feed them through the Irrigation Ir-rigation ot the valleys to the north and west of that tremendous clly In considering con-sidering this question the lawmakers ot he Natlpnought to remember that be BIde the hisU llval are flocking to Vhls I country froVn thVttlh I World ortry New Years morning there arc OOOOOO C yoxmg people who have jut reached their majority who need homes and that before twentyfive years more the 70000000 will have increased to 100 000000 that Is that 3 per cent mon people will want homes and places In which to work than are here now and I twentyfive years Is not long I seems only yesterday that the Democracy claimed that Mr Tllden was elected I and Col Wattcrson wanted to take 300000 men and march to the capital and seat Mr Tilden but that was l twentyfour years ago When a mine Is handled well after the reduction I works are started all prudent managers I mana-gers try to keep the prospecting work I ahead of the stopers KO there will not come a time when the mine will he i out of ore On that principle It would be well for the Government of the United States to begin to redeem the arid West because the first thing that will be known there will be a cry for more land for more homes In our country coun-try and managed right the expenditure expendi-ture by the Government could ill be paid back In rentals and the result would be as It was by the building of I the first Pacific railroad thc Govern I ment would be reimbursed for all that I 11 advanced and at the same time the I now homes would be made convenient I to market over half a continent I |