| Show BETTER EWER DAYS DAVS FOR FOP WESTERN IRRIGATION TION Special Correspondence Feb I irl gatlon gallon In tho the wet west Is mini on the up trend The Th first t boom In building large Irrigation works at nt the west we t was at Its height 15 16 years ago Time 1110 Investment was then very ery popular and eastern and foreign money mone readily responded re to th the enl call of tho the promoters With only a afew afew few tew exceptions every western state and territory received the tho of ot this expenditure Hut But this development proved leap disappointing pointing on tho time side of ot colonization It U found that arid arhl land worthless i without water still without pac practical value after tho the water had been lI n provided unless s there thero was a IL man there thereto to till tho the soil And this man did not come In sufficient number numbers As an Investment Irrigation lap lapinto I lapsed I c into unpopularity and the th active cam un of at reclamation by lII of veto Mite enterprise o chine to nn an end luce then thun two thugs things Imo have happened Time The tide of ot settlement 8 has hM c night IP ml with Irrigation There Thero Is II now not no but little HUH virgin Imn soil Holt open to the tho hunnes ex ez except excel cel t In tune the valleys alleys of oC the thu arid region melon Furthermore tho tilt people have ha A helom educated ns an to the merits of oC the Iha IrU Irrl Irrigated gated tarn farm They understand what n it means to have their crops insured insure bY bYthe Dy the ditch They appreciate the agen of oC soli of ot near neighbors by the small II dIm lieu fled l Irrigated farm aria Ho they the ora ma movIng malag lag Ing Into nil all tho the places prepared for them by y tine the enterprise of ot other year eau ri California Is III getting man many of or them theta nut But just junt how many will not nol be Kno known n until another IH is taken nl the f rail railroads roads report that they brought people to California during W 1901 1 3 0 of whom only had return t tickets One hopeful report conies comes from coin l the deceit In inn Ihn Ilna Ih part of at Han Har Diego Iego I county count on Oa i w Jail I 1901 1001 riot not single white whIle nan moo thue e was a In the neighborhood On Jan 1 I iw there thero was only n a camp with n a dozen dow surveyors Jan 1 I I DM raw n a 1 1 W of ot about 2000 while on em Jell Jr I I I finds about on an tho the ground Th Tharo They are arc still coming coining ory Vary rapidly and jn nn a to an e evil n other year la In likely larger gain linin east enst eastern The beautiful valley In ern cm Washington Is in witnessing 1 Indeed this is holds I true ue M growth tho many parts of ot the Pacific drained by Iy the tM Columbia river ricer and nd l lu III tributaries Including a eastern Oregon and anil am southern Idaho mountain states lAle are arc nr Tho The Hocky Rocky Ing lag strong demand for their In lands n a Wyoming Colorado I Utah ih and w nn v it cr Us Now New Mexico are gaining And wore more l lof rapidly Ing l Is is Ih Ing than anything rl er J of ot settlement In the line If lung stale of oC Nevada Railroad and nl mini f much to do io nl has hall t of the tho but Nevada Is also tin Ihn general movement of or Irrigated lands 4 In the this l is III tin that Tho The lesson of oC nil all of ot the now I ssell and I IM that lime lieu policy nolley IH is tho time lands fe rou for tor IlC act duty duly of ot saving Ul i tuni settlers settle presses urgently chalet opal b be cs long longer r It no can cun Congress la In lathat n h man m do not crave C that the tho people lit the rho g tho limo west weRI They riley are rl J t atry loon doors of this great empire P all ll aero that limo Iho eh I Inre will fd bo he Promptly taken In Ice lino b bire In Wre W gt n ire re ready to to cultivate Iho soil faith needed rho Iho pp i r In of It If wo we have ot the limo pMt past ns as tv a 1 sort art tor of at nd Innee Id longer wo WI neat newl ne him no prosperity under which ho he W his and laws a 1 rye IMle rich should be rep repealed i le i and W law put In placed or st t tenn or W hat no ono one except th prop property p caan thin publiC of at enn get po O erty 1 1 |
