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Show MONEY FOR IRRIGATION. As set forth In a Washington dispatch dis-patch in Thc Tribune yesterday morning, morn-ing, the operations under the National Irrigation law are being speeded by the Interior Department with all reasonable dispatch. Thc telegram recited the apportionment ap-portionment of funds to the different enterpriser en-terpriser and the allotments foot up twenty-seven million dollars. The ITtah project Ij? put down as approved ap-proved for a million dollars, and though It waa not so stated In thc dispatch, it Is the fact, that thc beginning of actual work on the Improvement awaits only the definite action of the water users In compliance with the law, in arranging the details of thc security for reimbursement, reimburse-ment, and thc formal application showing show-ing that all the preliminary steps have been taken and that the improvement is desired. The construction work on thc Salt River project In Arizona has bagun; It will cost throe million dollars; good progress has been made on IL The Truckec-Carson project, in Nevada, is also under way; it will cost three million. mil-lion. The Minidoka project, in Idaho, Is to have two million? and a half. The storage proposition on thc Shoshone in Wyoming, near Cody, is to cost two millions and a quarter. And so It goes In the several States, until the twenty-seven twenty-seven millions Is made up. able progress In this Important work. It Is not yet qulto two years since the law was passed, and yet here Is a programme pro-gramme extensive enough to reclaim a million acres of arid land and give sustenance sus-tenance to half a million people. Though only a beginning has been made on this Immense work, it will not be many years until It is all completed. And when it is- there will be even more work in hand, for this Is a progressive proposition; propo-sition; as fast as- one project is finished another will be taken up. The fund will be kept replenished, in two ways; first, in the continued sales of public lands which have already put nearly twenty million dollars Into this fund; and second, by the repayment of the sums expended, by the beneficiaries of tho reclamation projects after they are completed. It is therefore a perpetually per-petually filling spring of resource, and will be ample to carry on in thc course of time all the land reclamation which will be practical In this country. |
