| Show OF ARID LANDS LANDSi v i i i I of o L or Si Michigan M sou Southern hor J It Importance r t I I ij lG JO LAY i if 11 f 1 COI lU IIII holy 01 lor III i i Dec ucc tW C Ch or ot tho Lako Hn nd Kon 1 Loko an Southern railway InoN Mc at l Cleveland when with 11 Ked for tor 11 nl ot of opinion on Oi UI UIn tt s reI 8 Ih tIU n CS ald aldi J JI im ot tIo VOt l O 11 1 1 too ly lyof II i I tho thu recommendation t of or U 1 tl t tho thu tn noW flOW LJ In or our toI If the by the Iho ot great grent for Or the tho thep t ae ot favors tavOr I p Bt that tho thU r ri o ot of this work by hy tho the thoth i th U Is 1 tho the logical result rosult gei ral ml cover conditions In Inand fl I Vt of f his Well Vet t awl and his l wih Itic lh urn lR under v u I OF I worl of at Q arid In thu lo lood laniS which Il od hut bul only jU JUt U flOt larger er Jt P n ln fl require lar tho jO Ilu Q money thal MOloY for tor Cr con or o tle West t bY the tho 1 hi Is 10 bY on CU hO bo y the tho on only obviOUS or terri territory Iott to 10 tha Iho ly iY va lef by b the tho I O II tory 00 be b to 10 ren oll oUt to 10 grea great Ilent ot of right to tho ho th control thO Iho thOland the water and IG t own UW tb Under ian tho land U homo home Upen goVern etler land flut tribute to the lyn yn lust formed In such Buch UI the elect to exact MUSING NEW GENERATIONS Koch year yur a new COW generation of ot young farms graduated from ben m en n Is ts being end cities cites of ot o tho the fOI Ka J Jat lt t and andI Ild I Middle dole West Wat men cites m who vito must In 1010 I Sun tot for a home MIl and some vocation hOlo by which they may luy become tho Iho fertile prairies of ot Iowa For y ferto 01 ar Missouri flourI Kansas 8 Nebraska l ti have havo attracted the Dakotas II Ia and Ond and thousands of ot nd rapid homo Those states state aru aro the ox U and soon BOon ailing up son ly men wilt will look In III vat odus of ot young wi for for farms farm homes hOfles In tny any ot of this torn terrI When line com comes mo tor tory for tor this territory must be found westward tide of ot civilization AN M OV CLOUD cloud more mora The oM than any allY other othel today Is 18 a the 10 portentous alY growing Browing political representation rap rapidly of ot and of ot the great Population ns Ca against the country countr Tib Th h hope ope of the country Is 18 In tho tile forty eighty Mid tlC one une hundred hun rod und ald Ja of at and titled tilled by happy l py prosperous American tied citizens and In no way can CA condl tion bo be brought about ao 10 speedily ely aa as rs asby undertaking at nt on o othe ty by y the tho government once the work of ot o and an making lg 4 fruitful wall and fertile the tM t million mi lOls of ot acres of ot land now no Its Is It property but bul absolute absolutely ly hr worthless worthier without water w ter AU UND LAND FERTILITY It It h well within the limits of ot ex OX extreme e I I heme conservatIsm to say Iny that forty neres of ot Irrigated land lad will wi produce on onan Oi onan an nn average more moro than the tho best beat eighty acres In Ibe flis n fertile valleys of ot the Mia l and the tha Ihl Missouri Personally 1 I believe bele that that acre for or acre are oil ed land may be depended upon to pro 10 produce duce dare duC three times as ns much Taking the tho tle former t f estimate however aa us n ft a basis and Ind attempt to compute the tho addition to the material wealth of tiltS this country countr h would woul result rut from the expend expendi ture lure in this great gat work of o the money mOMy whIch h Is I appropriated annual annually ly Iy 2 In the tho river and harbor bill bl much of which to put ut It very vcr mildly ml ly Is II pent without hope or expectation of ot return and Ild tie the result will beggar bl com comprehension Hut above wi and beyond the tho to material features consider the moral morl morlet effect et t upon the character of or tho nation of filling the tho foothills and the Uio valleys of ot the states with the tho th multitude of hardy hary pioneers pioneer neal homo home builders that would be bo attracted f by the tha thafield th field thus thua opened to 10 them I No recommendation re or tug th has baa ever over been b n mode made by a n President more or Important that than this or worthy of ot more mor careful consideration ron nd I hope to see m an nn appropriation for tor the tho to reclamation I tion on of ot the tho arid Ird lands of at the nation n Uon made as Q ns M that for tor rivers and 1 harbors or for tor any ny other great and necessary work of tho ho national r govern government goern ment and ami that the appropriation will vill willbo 1 bo ho commensurate In amount with tho the great Importance Im of ot the tho work |
