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Show "T 'T 7- - "V -i 4 - other members arid by President Me Klnley, and he complimented ly all - the able- men In" Congress, regard-- 1 lessof party, Secretary Il.iy has never doubted his final success, but li was not i ti t i this week that it was actually assured. In order to obtain personal' informa- ion that wouldunable him to recommend do full Congressional action jfnslicetban the oilicersund men of the is-b- t -- -- mug " ; Fifteen thousand workresults from govern- - esting ieTer. - men are now engaged upon the- great uient irrigation developments This entire position is certainly erro- - structure and Its completion is guaran neons .and misleading. The small ap teed bv July 1, 1903. s Tho contractors propriat ion asked last yearwas not in- - are to redve no money until tho comany appreciable s tended to bo apportioned among The States imerestedjn irrigation. It was for the express purpose of building one or two storage reservoirs. This was to be the beginning of a policy which should r Includo the complete survey of all Jtlie TTorth Atlantic i8quadront which des- - arid region and the building of storage troyed the fleet of Cervera, President reservoirs by direct and continuing ordered tlio captains of tho jropriations from Congress toCongress, or jin every arid Staie and Territory. Home ight warships wore In close proximity to the light to was not built in a day, and western legislators did not expect Congress to beild atonee a hundred storage reservoirs. Long. They were all present, at the but this appropriation would have been conference and all were requested to a beginning. As Senator Carter said: correct any erroneous statement mado Let It be distinctly understood that by any one of them. The result of the this is the entering wedge of a new pol- jjmfereneo wjll be scenlnthp special icy.1 etc. It is not expect ed of the that President McKinley will cut Congress that it will by any favora- sbortlysend toCongresson tho subject. bio ijossiblfity make amappropriatioh of Subscriptions to the Lawton fund 8100, 000,000, or ovehiiiionghmoney-t- o were closed today, with the total well build a single reservoir in each State, but if It appropriates funds for one resbeyond 50,000. ervoir and for complete surveys in other Stales, the hopes of the people Who have becu arguing federal storage will be realized. This would be tho entering wedge and nothing could prevent its By Guy E. Mitchell, Sec. Nat. Ir. As.J widening and broadening the opening. Wyoming is not going to have a UNTIMELY OPPOSITION. by the government without : 1 - 1 . that--woul- , ap-McKinl- ev , which-participat- ed pres-jnessa- ge 'C . -- MtlGIlI mils. reser-voir.bui- lt Ncvadd, U tab an d a dozen oi terse a i til ing the same privilege, any more than g.ln Francisco can get a harbor improve-Kll- l Inent, from the government and the rest of the coast ask in vain fur like assistance. So in these times, when Congress ' to appropriating seems very near r,nnnv for national storage of waters It bolipovcs overy citlz(!I1. of thaterri.ory shoulder loshonldr ;l,,lpr,,alp(1 with his neighbor in support of a policy which if carried through to completion, will make anew West over the present west even as tje west of tod avis a d i from the west" of The sixties. I Federal Storage of Waters Almost a estrn Dissentions Tend to tyf Ilut the Proposition The West Should Reali- - Stand United. Opposltion has been mado to the Federal storage proposition on the ground that nothing Kis yet boon accomplished HW those lines although efforts have :gccn "'ado for years, and therefore. Il ls argued, the project might as well he abandoned. Attention has been called McCords statement that ,tu Congress last winter canto very near-to appropriating 215,000, to begin work on a national system of irrigation (or the arid Westland that the leaders agreed with Senators Warren and Carter that at least that sum should be appropriated by the present Congress, If they would then consent to TdtT ho mattqr go overT Therein, it Is statod,is the mcafuro of what can bo expected for federal Irrigation construction by the present Congress. Two hundfed odd thousand dollars apportioned among tho arid states and territories" would liTalaTsTsum for each so paltry at to amount to naught, and the citizen of todarwotildWiavo Ur live to he a hundred before he could sec ex-Govern- or -- V I ? tpaFJ -- o- -- TIIE GREAT NILE DAM. TI re-E- tis lr begairi irl S8?n hel rpl au- - ng .waters ning fordheiorage oLtho-Ni- ln that now run to waste during flood periods, hut itwiys not until last year that work was actually started on the great Nile dam, which will reclaim over one million" acres." AThousand and one-hamillion gallonsj)fs wafer will bejield in storage behind this, ! hej; real est dam in the world, says Paul La'zke In. an incr- lf pletion of the work when they will bo paid 800,000 a year for thirty years. Underfills method of annual payments, the dam will actually cost the Egyptian government nothingas the lamtax-on- . the new urea reclaimed' will-h- e, it is th o u g h t , a bo ti t 3. 00i , 000 y e a rl y . T h e government is practically building this storage reservoir, and while irresponsible for a certain payment annually, yet by reason of the building of tbb reservoir, it not only reimburses itself hut acquires a handsome revenue.! addition al. 71,000,000 ACRES ARID LAND. ..The U. .S. government surveyors agree. beingatleast uponThere 7 Lfi00,000- - acres of public land which could be reclaimed alid made liighly productive by, irrigation, These lands are now arid and useless to agriculture. At 1.25 per acre they would be worth 88,750,000,., while under irrigation at t lie lowest rate of per acre, they would sum up-t710,000.000. Should we in time adih these 71,000,000 acres to our arable domain we would increase our capacity 10 probably otto hundred pet. cent.,for: supporting a farm population and at the 3amo time annex a vast taxable property. , SALT LAKE CITYS NEW HOTEL. The eye of tho proverbially critical) stock man and miner of interior Utah,, when he reaches Salt Lake, turns com placently and with Satisfaction upon the-ala- t yu ial andconspictTonsl ptt host e r y 7 T 1 1 E KENYONT Mr. Doie Porter has made.. itliteraliy a modern, hotel, with all the elegant personal comforts and conveniences to which people; 1 p-to-- -- taste are accustomed, and with features of attention not heretofore givein of to guests. It is very evident-th- at this-industrio- usly handled enterprise is a credit to Salt Lake City and is truly appreciated by tho 'traveling public S incoT tTncepnoTTa ItiTn o v c r a y e a rT 1 Tito Konyon ago hascatercd to li- very large clientele, and in order to meet tlie requirements of a rapidly in creasing 'patronage, . Mr. Potter' has built an addition of seventy suites with Sittiated in Tlie very heart of Lake's .business centre, Tho Ivttn- - baths. vSa I don i s ti o s ti Tied t erta kiri tsp i ace as ho.ol of western America. life-leadi- ng A |