Show WHAT irrigation HAS DONE THE reading beading pa times has taken up the subject of irrigation and shows how bow it has baa transformed uie the region west of the meridian where at least nineteen millions of acres of land has been redeemed through its agency A aa to the relative value of artesian wells and ditch irrigation it sagely concludes that thel former method is best for some regions and the latter to others how any lands can be watered without ditches is in not matte made to appear but the times thinks eastern farmers ought to adopt western methods and gives the following credit to the people who first brought practical tibal irrigation to the notice of the amerl ameri uan agriculturist it is to the mormons cormons we owe the idea of reclaiming arid and land through irrigation their success in utah showed the american mind what might be done clone elsewhere salt lake city itself is at the geographical center of the arid and region of the united states here the mormons cormons began their irrigating operations in 1847 in a few W years they had transformed transform ed a desert into a teeming garden the same operation is being repeated today over millions of acres the farmers of the fast east will in time take up the irrigation idea and put themselves beyond risk of crop failure through drought |