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Show AVKST MIST rUESMNT UNITED FRONT There are so many great lines of development work carried on in the nation that the West must present a - -solid front if reclamation work is to receive the attention from Congress that it deserves. The twelve great western states that have millions of acres under irrigation ir-rigation projects more or less completed com-pleted and that have hundreds of millions of acres of land to reclaim, must act as a. unit. 'In justice to the great undeveloped west the senators and representatives from these western states must act as a block whenever this question is touched and public sentiment on this line is developing. There must be unity of purpose and consolidated action backed by a solid front of educated community thought in each state in fact there must' be western consolidated community com-munity consciousness. This is the purpose of the great reclamation organization that has been formed at Boise, Idaho, with (-lovernor Davis at its head and with the solid backing of all the executives of tho West. With such an organization, backed by public sentiment built up on broad lines, not neglecting local reclamation reclama-tion problems, the West can hold its own with Atlantic coast and southern state interests. ' |