| Show 1 1 Of RECLAMATION ACT CT Congressman French Says it is Biggest Public Blessing Since Homestead Law EAST IS NOT SATISFIED I I I Proposition That hut Settler Settlor 11 Secure Lund Lh Ih II lug On Jo 01 It I All idl 1 Thu HOK lOS DunTON L I No law luw that Congress has enacted tom foi the tho benefit of oC the west since the I passage of oC the national homestead law Iw lawIs Is destined dc to produce such luch great bless bIes blessing ble s sInS lug ing InS as tho the national reclamation act Under Its operation It I will wi not be dif difficult If for Cor each th arid state to vastly In Increase I I crease creaso Its Us area ea of oC producing II rd land fly lly 1 reason rea on of the tho limitations however In this measure time the homestead law furnishes tho the only on means whereby the settler may become possessed of oC land lant that Is not nol already patented and the thu experience of tho the past couple of uC years has made lade It apparent that the home hoine I stead tead law does docs not lit mit lt conditions as a I they actually exist under the reclamation tion act This law presupposes exist eIst existing lag ing lg conditions favorable to settlement Tho rho must mus live livo 10 upon his homestead and amid It I Is assumed he h can make malte his living from Crom the tho first almost entirely from Crom the land landI I cuvo of ot absence may many lay not be granted d oven even though the tho homesteader cel can cal not make macku a n living because the law lal Is con COil construed construed struel to mean t at cause for tor leae lene leu as an regards failure of oC rop crl applies to conditions that cause caure failure flure that thal are uru not normal norm The Tho arid character Is II not an unusual lint hut the time constant email condi condition conel lion tion Consequently the settler seUer must malta make his homo home upon time the arid tract of ot laud land lan that he haa Ini hii entered upon under the tho only existing law until the govern government government ment water waler for Cor or his hil land And right hero Is la where the misfit of oC tho the law occurs occur Many Jinny settlers setters In fact fart I may moy say e most moat Bottlers are aro not notable notable able financially to live upon an nn arid tract of ot land for a I number of oC years eal admitting that they could by hy i means macnaB leans of ot wells veils or by b hauling water vater raise rise a mi of ot a n crop proof prot of which they proof tl could use as a 1 basis busl for final tinni Inal This the case elIse the Ule homesteader must unless ho he possess some means abandon hla hIl claim Ha lie may even cven s ael sell ll his hiM to 10 some lomo other home seeker Felk r who wh thinks ho can hang on 01 till tl the tho water comes come but he cannot be bo compensated for the tho year tur or two or three years ha lie has haM lived or existed upon time the land landOn landOn On the other hand tho the government seems seemA unable to develop tIme the Irrigation projects more rapidly These projects Involve millions mil lOls of ot expense and an vast engineering Besides this 1 there must be lo no rio 10 failure The Tue east cast eastIs Is not wholly satisfied of ot the time ultimate success of or tho the Irrigation experiment and ammil success alone upon our part will wi commend us lS to their confidence It I has been suggested that the set fet settler fetter tier ter is at fault faul that he ho should not lot have havo tone gone upon the laud land that ho he should shook wait walt until the tite water Is I In readiness to bo ho turner on un hut lut this suggestion Is b not hot right The law Itself Is la nn fm Invitation for tor or settlement dee clue el o why hY should It bo be o upon our statutes And Ami If It tho the pre ent settlers do not go BO upon the time land others olbers will 1 go and an tho the lands will viii wi be occupied More titan than this It la lo lau Isn loIt u n good goo thing rather than titan an nn Injury to 10 have lulo n a 1 settler setter for fo every eHry foot toot of land that will be reclaimed r In view of or of tho tIme foregoing conditions I Propose propone e that the time law hi for Cor the time acquit acquiring ing lug of oC land lanti bo be modified so 10 that actual residence time the land will wi not be ie required nil all 11 of oC the tho time till ti the gov government shall be ready remt to put water Wilter r Into the ditches This Idea Iden If it enact enacted ed Into law Ia would be ho utmost limitless s sIn In good It would benefit tho time govern government goer ment lent because 1 It would ouid prevent the tho al nl almost almost most l st countless contests that must In follow the tho present system It 11 would benefit benent tho time settler setler by hy treeing freeing him lila of or the contest and establishing his status It 1 benefit benent the tho settler ter again because e ho lie would bo he permitted to earn his living and 01 educate his thou dien In seine 1010 nearby community al already alread a aready ready read developed It 1 would benefit the time country countr to be reclaimed for tor each euch set sel settler tier would woul take a it n pride In clearing his hla Il land constructing his fences and ond ex cx expending expending pending annually in Improvements train from one to several hundred dollars dolar that he lie can an now barely obtain to live vo upon tiller |
