| Show Tim City tar Tb reclaiming ot of arid arlt lands land by luch lucha such sucha a system according to Ha thi I would eventually furnish homes homell rr fr 4 40 ot of people w wh n now the Ipu pupil utica I Is of the laUt scantiest would again b be afforded young mn tl to Hl secure tn finn when making their start In lt life and a neat great on would I hit made to the agricultural on th the prosperity ro of UI this u 1 t a so largely Irrel Th new rm m would increase the mark t for manufactured Rood goods and wold 1 largely add to th the wealth or Ul the lad land For both buth Ihl these reasons the East te Et as wl well as the West is In the Irrigation development San Call Tr There lu has long bR bis 1 a eon whether irrigation sal shall be undertaken b by States ad and or by th the government That controversy sy ought no now to 1 be cO closed It t I is cr lain that II tu many respects th the II Is too vast valt to b ho Ih solved d by separate ulon but In Ime some way tb the flah grates might help Tu Thus there I Is am amIlle itle Ille rm room or 1 a hull tt of a rement among Imon al all who sincerely to 1 eec the great and needed work bun begun lt at 01 I It I ii to b be hop hoped the Jf present nt t I lii a plan ot of operation on which a I ll cn can al agree Chicago Th Tb ot of permItting the work of oC Irr tt 1 t to b be done by vat ra O or syndicates how sr I a thE U the Oil irrigation companies secure C control ot of iii h water supply eur la n th this they forever after I ward hold the key ker to the situation and unless their ar are comprehensive their work substantial and their water rate reasonable rte conditions Ie are seldom eldom or never tul fully realised they Ihy are a to the irrigation of the 10 calit For these reasons the national ought to take hold ot of the problem and work It out it thorough and homogeneous plan Sn San Francisco Chronicle National legIslation is demanded or orthIs Ihl thIs subJect for tor the reason that the lands to b be brought into cultivation l ate moU In th the property ot of tb the naton duty to ourselves and our posterity reo re quire that the available waters bl be so conserved find and 1 so as I to result In 18 the largest larret production tion In many cal cases this 11 InVolVes Ie In initial lon Ih thi meant expenditure tar far beyond lal of the Ibe States Siale and nd Territories and still further out ot of the rea reach h of private vate Ble tl enterprise ln even It if we desired to permit private persons to exploit the national domain AppropriatIons fur this purpose are demanded not ot only by reason ot of lb the obligation ot of the naton nation to Improve II Its property but as an or off offset lt set to the art great puma contributed by bythe tb the arid interior for tor Ih the improvement ot of the rivers and ot of the rest ot of the re country T e wt West is 18 R a unit land landi In desiring Ih the reclamation ot of Its s arid I Los For tire the time within 11 its nine For year yan of life the National ron congress I is to 10 hold hoid I its annual meeting In a clr city eat east ot of the river It Is II to met meet In ChIcago Nov 21 to II 24 I 11 Is a double In thul time choosing I as a ot of meUn meeting I IL meAns In the first place that the p pee pI pie of oC th the arid rid region rellon hae have decIded upon a change ot of nue for tor their MIMI case and hf hise determined to present It b be tore foie a new Jury which presumably hat has not heard much abut about It it I It means also 10 that Euler Eastern people pl are re In Int interested t rete to Invie invite national Ir people to 10 their cat case before th them The Th arguments In favor ot of national action In the mater matter ar are pretty well understood Nature hl has no frely knowledge ot of or respect r for tor State boundaries he d d th advent of man that titers there should hould be In commerce In water When she he veils the pek peak of Colordo Colorado In a mastIc she promises the desert Ie ot of tb the mul Colorado river 1 a share br In her benefaction tion SIte She doer not intend that the ton mere political of Colordo Colorado shall 4 Utah Uth and aud CalIfornia hal d chic ech each for tor themselves and each Il the others how bow her snow now tre tru tire ure Ihal shall b be divided In this concep lion ot of natures nAture Intent anti and pUla tIters thre ton is Ia the bull basis for tor th the National Irrigation cn congress |
