Show A aj add rl ow tv io u allye require quire the services inthe iv engineer this probes i ion 1 11 therefore her afore which seeks to rapture subdue govern and direct lie forces of nature to tile the use and convenience of man may properly bo be dated from the time when history first notices the one and relates the success attending the other in mans primitive state commerce if very primitive exchange may may bo be called commerce was carried on iu in a unique and simple manner the burro and the camel constituted the sole fountain of energy lipon which was drawn for all tile the uses of existing industries and means of transportation and there under so ro laborious a system were necessarily limited looking back upon the history of nations we see that as civilization the wants and necessities of man become more numerous and varied the palace is substituted for the hovel the are arc li lalit light ft lit for the tallow candle arid and where before was an absolute blank we now see magnificent 0 water supply dyste systems ins sewerage 1 systems electric lighting plants telegraphs telephones telephone arid and numerous 0 ther other conveniences these are luxuries tile the results of engineering skill of which primi tive live man never even dreamt As long as lie he had his bow ili his orrow arrow and his burro lie he was contented to tile the however who so long iong enjoyed tile the dominion of the teran nean sea we must 9 give the credit of first encouraging the development of engineering is as a profession while egypt may bo be called the cradle in which science was first nurtured and from which tile the greeks in often times d drew rew their knowl knowledge 0 but it is to the romans that wo we must give tile the honor bonor of first materially aiding the development of that oldest of arts irrigation the foundation of th the e success future happiness and prosperity in this great western em re extending as it does doer from the eth jeredian marc mer edian lian on the east to the pacific on tile the west from canada on the north to mexico Nl exico on the south and possessing pos greater and grander possibilities of development than any other part of this country has ever possessed its inexhaustible mineral sources cannot be duplicated in any other section of the world it variety of climate ranging from the mild semitropical semi tropical through all the degrees 13 rees of tile the temperate zone 2000 give to it p possibilities in the way of irrigation t aaion development unrivaled in any other part of the globe it is liere here that thai the irrigation question as it relates to the securing of hot homes a es tor for the thousands of surplus people already congested in our eastern cities must musi be solved it is here hen that the foundation of a new civilization with irrigation ini gation as its chief corner stone has been begun a civilization where the small cultivated farm replaces the wild ranch where inorante inor anre and want tire are super superseded superceded ceded by y intelligence and prosperity where crops never fail where all varieties of industry attain to their highest possible efficiency fici ency in this ideal development of a great agricultural stock raising mining and manufacturing he r t all an d flu ke ow ia D al 4 in N to be employed and tens of millions to be supported there are myriads of beorn c reservoirs canals d dams am s locks tu tunnels and aqueducts to be constructed and maintained and problems as the cheapest most deflective and efficient means of utilizing the immense underflow which has been found by observations to cover great areas arid and at garden city kansas to be feet deep these enormous accumulations of water must be raised to the furfare by wind steam electricity or helio motors and this together with our natural mountain streams and rivers spring floods and precipitation will ultimately and before many decades have passed reach such a stage e of development that every th thirsty ersty acre worthy of reclamation shall have been reclaimed and sown with the seeds of prosperity content and universal love that this development will be accomplished through the resources of irrigation and to the fullest possible extent cannot bo be doubted it will be bebau because te it must be it will bo be because the future progress t of our nation demands it it will bo be because the necessities of the century american citizen require it it will be because the most progressive enlightened M refined and educated nations of the past have had their rise and existence in the arid regions and under the influences of irrigation and because the greatest minds of the ago are now concentrated upon its s successful uc promotion and now DOW in building this great empire of irrigation whose sole object is tile the progress and development of the human race we will as has been said ilay lay the super tuie tute by the plumb lino line of justice arid and equity we will write upon its white corner stone sacred to tho the equality of man wo we will inscribe upon its massive arch those two synonymous terms irrigation and independence A B LAREN |