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Show KK'KlilSS t'HOX-J.l) XOVy SntSlDE. National Stofitga Indorsol by Government. The statement is made now and again by some 'Western men that the Government Govern-ment will never build storage reservoirs, does not appear to be well founded in view of the progress of events within a comparatively recent period. The Geological Geo-logical Survey, a Government institution, institu-tion, has been and is today working steadily, making surveys for reservoir sites, and reserving the land against the time when it may be needed for reservoirs, and Congress is annually appropriating for this work; the Department De-partment of Agriculture is this year spending $30,000, which Congress appropriated, ap-propriated, in irrigation investigation in the West, and last year the Senate, by a good majority, voted squarely to build a storag'e reservoir in Wyoming. The amendment was defeated by the House of Representatives, but the fight came painfully near, to the pessimists, being an out-and-out triumph for the cause of Fedrad storag'e reservoirs. The most the West needs at this time is to stand solidly together in this irrigation ir-rigation proposition and make a united demand upon the Government for what it wants, then take oil' its coat and work for a year, in season and out of season, and without let up, until it gets it. No question but that it can get it if it demands, and backs up its demand with all the force and energy at its disposal. The follow-ing press report taken from the Washington Times, shows the attitude atti-tude of at least one branch of the Government Gov-ernment upon this question: ''The present agitation in the West, notably in California, concerning water storage for irrigation, has brought in so manv requests and letters to the Geological Survey that F. H. Newell, the hydrogrupher, has prepared a circular cir-cular setting forth the attitude of the Government with reference to the building of storage reservoirs. "The circular states, among other things, that a large number of storage reservoir sites have been surveyed and reserved, aud that the maps and estimates esti-mates of the cost of construction have been prepared and plans drawn to afford an accurate basis for 'appropriations 'appropri-ations ior construction.' The circular states that the ohicers of the survey have no concern with the question whether these reservoirs are to be built by private capital or public funds, but nevertheless its statements are eon-ceded eon-ceded to largely commit the Government Govern-ment to the policy of Fedral storage of Western Hood waters.1' G -Or. |