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Show STATE OR GOVERNMENT AID? Should The State Improve Government Property. That every Western State needs irrigation ir-rigation is conceded. Those sections which have tried it have simply demonstrated dem-onstrated the necessity for the utilization utili-zation of the entire water product of the State, if that State is to reach its full development. This utilTzation of the entire water product of the State means the construction of reservoirs, as there is no river, not rescrvoired, but that some time during the year wastes large quantities of surplus water. wa-ter. It is also generally conceded that private capital cannot and never will utilize all the water of any State. There then remains to be considered the States themselves and the National Government as the only agencies qualified quali-fied to create a comprehensive reservoir reser-voir system in the West. In the first place, this work is distinctly interstate iu character, and is therfore less prop-perly prop-perly a State than a National enterprise. enter-prise. In no State are all the streams confined to the limits of those States. Wyoming, for example, is the fountain head of streams flowing in all directions, direct-ions, whose waters pass through or border upon no less than twenty other States or Territories. This is true to a less degree in Colorodo. No reservoir reser-voir can be built iu either of these Continued on 4th page. |
