Show OUR oun TREMENDOUS The promise Is not so distant On Juno JUlo 17 17 1902 tho the long continued arid and land hand agitation came catumo to a clma climax with the tho passage of or tho time reclamation act This was a very vary vel wise law Jaw it I provided pro that thal all an moneys mones from tho sales of or arid land hand and amid of or water vater for fOl its ils aton a- a Hon tion ton should bo ho reinvested b by the gO gov government In reclaiming new lands land to bo be sold In turn tur The Tite reclamation service service ser ser- vice was as mado made l supporting self the tame same money to be bo used over and over O again agIn Already almost forty Corty millions of dollars have boon been raised und and expended ex Ox- x- x and amid many great Irrigation project have be been n rapidly pushed for Cur ward Some Somo of ot these thes works aro are stu stu- Tho Thu great Garland canal In In hr Wyoming Is sixty miles long and distributes water waler over o acres One Ono dam lain to bo be constructed will bo be o J twenty live feet Ceet higher than thau the wH Flatiron Flat Fiat 10 iron building in New York YOlk while another another an an- other will wi store gallons a- a or of vivifying water What at docs does all al this life giving water carry crl In a recent address before tho National Geographic society M. M C. C J. J Blanchard statistician of or tho the United States reclamation service describes de do- scribes tho the appearance of or tho the banks of tho the Snake river i in itt southern Idaho three short years ago age Save for COl our camp tire fire Ire there thera was U no sign of human habitation within 30 miles only a a vast eago brush blush plain rimmed on every side bide by the horizon It I was as a ever night to remember Over us spread a 3 star atar- g gemmed canopy around us the tho embere em em- bers bere of or a sago sage brush fire firo fro shed their glow In the near dl tho the dole- dole tt i t Mf I iJ J iL ful rul wailing of tho the skulking coyote coote sent a spine chilly feeling up and down the Tho river was wa dammed II It I was wag led into miles mies of great canals canals and amid miles of ditches It mies I was spread over acres of or land Settlers Setlers poured In the land was taken up in forty and eighty acre lots houses dotted the tho plain and a hundred miles of ot railroad were built buit by the Oregon Short Line Limb Three towns sprang Ui up with with- churches church s and school schools Toda Today says ss s's Blanch Blanch- Blanchard ard one thousand and four foul hundred families are arc living on farms and a thousand people are arc living in ha towns where a trifle over three years ago the tho eye met nothing but hut dust and desola desola- tion Waiter ton Walter E. E Vel in Success Magazine |