Show M nI ruin rum I 2 OF TilE THE ARID WEST BEST WESTI Thoro Arc Aro Aaron Acron ol 01 o Lands Which Ave Aro Yot In tho Public Gilt Planting Has I Increased tho the Springs Springe tho Brooks and Augmented tho ho Rain and Words ol of o En EnI l O From tho East I J H to u u iru u I Americas high destiny Justifies tho tile extension of Its principles over now lands Inn sj It Justifies JU tho lie accessions of ut alien 1 lie II territory and anti the preachment to peoples of ot doctrines which will lift thom them out of or barbarism and Idler Idle Idleness ness but bUI surely It calls for tor tho the re 10 redemption redemption of or her own territory before any other thing Of ot our OUI country but buta ut I In n a small part Is In Inhabited Nearly a third of oC It on tho the farther side aide of ot tho tin Missouri Is s so eo thinly settled that whole do not compare In population with single cities In het IJ and vast arena areas mire nrc not habitable under present conditions We Wo can cun add hundreds of ot thousands of or 8 to our hab domain by converting tho the arid region rolon to fertility fortuity And AmI albeit there thieve t wan a n time when a 1 of that sort Bort would have been bean ns awe awo Inspiring na no the turning of at the tho Atlantic Into the tho experiences of or tho limo past I lt Score of oC years have shown It ft to be en cn timely feasible Wo We have on of our OUI tables every over sum summer summer mer Colorado melons melon They are tho the present t standard of excellence They were well grown In hi 11 n a 1 region rOllon In which ac UC according cording to nn old government report no human being could long exist save the tho Indian In lan who lived by hunting ant ani animals mals mats that have since disappeared There Is an nil Immense significance In that fact It now BOWS that the desert esert Is not nil all desert that lint much of ot It can be bet reclaimed ns as the tho farms t of ot Colorado t have liaf ha VI been reclaimed from the sur surrounding surroundIng rounding waste of alkali sand and SHOT brush Even I ell tho the desert of oC the southwest the tho most forbidding corner cornel of ot the tho earth has hns yielded Itself to tho the gracious Influence of ot water and In spots whore where once the thc winds s caught up the tho sands nod ond whirled thorn thom In ghostly yet stilling columns across s the taco of the earth the grass grows roses bloom and stately palms mingle their shade with that of ot deciduous trees treca Inthe In tho the east we lire are sweeping away our forests foresta mile on mile exterminating the thc spruce the tha pine and poplar to feed foed the saw fill and pulp mills and are nrc thereby exposing tho the soil eoll to the tho blaze blase of the time theRun Run nun destroying the vegetable mold converting the hills to eminences of rock that are aro washed wa bare by rains instead of storing them and causing the country to suffer front from extremes of ot drouth In summer slimmer and from tram floods inHering In Hering Hut But It Is hopeful of ot ho tho future of or the country that while this 1 tion goes on In the older ulder states tiN the newer ones OlIOS are lire applying the th scientific correction of ot these evils nod an ore are even aiding nature In planting Eastern rivers are arc shrinking and western ones ont will gala gain Tarts Parta of ot Now England are threatened with desertion while the thc thoI I West Vest W t grown growl The men mell of ot the tho west I had to confront the that we weare are slowly creating In tho limo they proved themselves equal to the task I In overcoming the difficulties they de 10 developed der a splendid race It has hns been matter of ot surprise to the Investigators n tors tars to find that arid land hand was S the best bestland bestland land The desert has hns not parted with i n 1 Its stores of nutritious matter hug nug 1 j I t a I ns nil thoy tire tho have havo been by hy the vast herds hods of animals that have traversed thorn them maul they welt wait only the maglo of ot moisture to burst hurst Joyously jo into Inlo bloom In 11 Egypt J mid other countries where Irrigation Is III necessary to produce pro produce duce crops the yield la is II more abundant than In of ot corresponding corl size that depend on 00 rains rillus Organic matter limiter Is apparently stored In time the earth and con elusions based on something over n a atho thousand tho analyses are nn that tint the tho desert desort soil soli west vest of oC Is richer than thon the time country COUll II east cast of ot the tilt by byan byan an nn average of ot throe times ns as much rot ash six times limes KB as much magnesia and fourteen times ns os much lime Ilme The otten to contend with salt nit but hut that Is readily soluble and easily washed out of oC tho limo ground Iloie JIOIO then thon Is raw material of ot fertility fertil fertility ity abounding It would he be absurd In ht Inthis Inthis this people not to 10 use IIII them U It dons dOls dof s snot not Imply u for manures In III order artier to obtain a yield Iehl of crops river that courses through the country IB la I turbid with mineral riches deices In and about Tucson It has hII b been m found that tho thu anthill market value of oC the tho plant foods carried to 10 an nn acre In nn un ordinary system Is over oer t 9 l a n season more than tho the average farmer thinks of spending for fOl In almost uny any part of ot time the world wand There are nr In lJur West acron nero of ot arid land which are yet In is tho the pub public lie lic gift Wonderful results remits have IIno been obtained through Individual to reclaim tho the desert and when one ono con eon whet what might be done one by b federal management Imagination Is ii and gladdened by h the tine possibilities It ItIs ItIs Is If nn no empire that lies fallow beyond the mountains an empire wherein mil millions millions lions Mons who now Ito overcrowd our may live IIvo In tho ho comfort and freedom that are denied denial In stony towns To make homos homes for tor these millions It 1111 will be bo n necessary c essary that hunt the government prepare the tha way Ill The Tho cost and amI the th labor Ire are too ton to vast for Cor personal undertaking For Forests ests must mutt be planted to Insure constancy con constancy stancy in water supply reservoirs must bo ho created by damming valleys In or order dor lIeI that the supply may mn be bo ample In volume canals nod drains must no ho dug 1111 across the tho country for miles with gates lteR and dikes other such appliances appliance anti ald there must be h uniformity In to laws respecting rights to use u o ot of water vater Mo t of ot tho time arid land Is In what have ha recent recently reC nt Iv ly be como states lato but hut by the th snore au all authority authority or cooperation fon forest s reserves re eras and national parks Indian and reservations and experiment stations have hn been heen secured for tor public IMM the needed ponds and canals Annl could bo be created And apart from the tha Immediate main of or this great conversion of or the can desert the gain that Is 18 to settlers Millers and to the tho Industries which they will 11 create clette It is tho the profit of the tilt whole coun country country country try by the tho Increase In Its output and ml the guarantee of oC permanence In Im Improved Improved proved climatic conditions For l or water venter has a tendency to recreate Its lis supply Irrigation Irrl In time the West has hn mode made tre tree planting feasible tree Iree planting In turn has tl as Increased the tho springs deepened the th brooks and Increased the tho rain and dew dAW dewfall dewfall fall Land has risen tenfold In value under tinder these thee conditions In the desert It must rise rife an nn hundred Wrong Pardon i and arbitrary exercise of or power powerIng cl Ing InK Iut r rights right and males hove litno made Irrigation In source some statue and havo rise to tJ legal 1111 and urea even physical l cal col contests but that Is ly 1 no the General ral attempt linn hM t en vi Hindu tu to secure n t large and ami auppl so 1111 how between IN h INto II to tu bo be sill depend depond on Culi resa It may b hu be needful to 10 u n rests thu Ulu Cumuli lief UK wi we can cun tin the dem rt Then lot let li It bu by b No Nil l niu the tine nation In la 10 so 0 Important Wo We cannot say nuj In in 1 ala iu w easy lH fashion that th u un nm III mutum rs that concern Cn tIn only pouter posted r I mil In Is our OUI own flush and blood 1111 in III ulio iu consign that thaL in to If any I III I In Is I u a The rhe I tit umi pro K c ilo and III UI I pourer of ut the ihu people depend on nn Its It disc front from foul dense centers of population and Its omler diffusion ov ove aVI of ur country With the time arid of the tho West under and In 11 i of ot we w shau be ho able ble to otter offer a 1 horns home to every citizen and add to our human hu mutt man rc Wo We shun moreover bo be JI doing that which It Is 18 a t of ot this 1118 republic to do o and that li la 1 tu tv show to 10 other time the way to tl u s larger we t It h n a larger health and a 1 manlier suite scale scaleA A patriot a man of genius a 11 man of eastern culture anti and of ot western export mice unco u Is la President of nt the tho U United States Ho lie could signalize his Iris In no greater and In hi no more excellent way thou than by ly Identifying It with tho the bInn e tin g s of tit the tho great work and of df the great duty of ot reclaiming time the West Weston on the lines linos the tha sits sets forth today Brooklyn Eagle Ragle |