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Show MAN WHO BOOSTED IRRIGATION IN WEST DIES IN "NEW YORK NEW YOItlC. Oct. 7 (By A. P.) William Kits worm Smythe, author, editor and nationally known promoter of public irrigation and reforestation projects, died yesterday at his home on lower Fifth avenue. He was 61 , years old and a native, of Worcester, Mass. Karly in his career Mr. Smythe became be-came a leader of the little band of public men who saw In Irrigation the future redemption of the desert lands t the Went. He had been editor of tho Kearney (Neb.l Knterprlwe and tho Omaha He, when In 191 he founded the Irrigation Age and later, the Western Empire. Then, In the same year, he founded the National Irrigation congress, which was responsible for much f the ditch di (tifing and many of the water laws that marked the transformation of territory Jn several Western states , front aridity to agriculture. |