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Show H "BACK TO THE LAND." pSpJ The cry "Hack to the Land" Is ns- J Kumiiig sonievvhnt of the propuitlous PPJ of an eplilemle People everyvvheio PPJ ij nro taking up thu y nnd aio moving PPJ j for parts whole the hand of cIvllliM- PB J tlou is biuefo known. The Idea that PPj nil uvailablo land has been taken up PPJ Is nonsense pure and simple, as then PPJ nre great stt etches of couutt), drj and PH i ni lil as the ver cunfines of Sheol, PPj ' jet which could, miller the magic PH! ' touch of man, science and common PB sense bo brought tu a plane of wt- PBj duic and productiveness. B9 In mnn parts of Palestine, we aie PHj told, can be seen mi etches as ilr as B9 the sandy stietches of Ueatli Valley, ,' K but which dining the days of the1 Bfli Savior were green with vegetation, I B9 showing that with thu action of time BS'i lld disuse, tho land had drifted h.uk Hj into Its pilmltlvu state of arldlt I Mh1 Vllst iiiigallou piojects aie ii u , M; ing up places wheie the hand of man I Ppt' hcmce had been, and man) aro in the PBjt com so or coiiHiructlon, mi that laud PPJ which ears agn was coimldeied alu PPJn less will he nnido worth millions K' The Huhl's In Idaho hae done lu M marknblu work in this direction, and Pptj the Kouiiimuut reclumatiou service, PPE j i not ono whit bohlud, is wotktng every PV ' day on Bomo projoct of othor. Ppftj Irrigation engineering bus become PBP unite n business, when one consider PPV? what Is being done lu the drj conn J tries on the Asiatic continent. In Tin BBBBBBS K kestan, a Jewish syndicate Ih putting BBj, in a V.10,000,000 project to watui one PPJI' million acres. Thu dam at Assonar PpB I'gpt, which backs up tho ihei Nile j fw many many miles, biluglng the PPBi N'llo valley Into its owu ngaln, was PPP' built by Uugllsh nnd Jewish capital. PH , t No wonder tho ciy gocB out, "Hack BMi to tho Land." It Is an earth mow PpiwJK meut, nnd tho only movement that PPJH will mako tho whole earth ouo of PH t I'arndlslcal beauty. PPj v Uotween American Falls, Idaho, PP and Mountain Home, there Ih h Bfl f I stretch of count i.v which It Is claim BS: ' U ea Nvl" wi be Kiltnuted Lcca i BMHflflflfHfih the Inva ash nature of tho soil proclaims pro-claims Its dryness nnd without watel nothing will evei be done with It, and water, owing to tho geography of the country ennnot be brought on to It. Hut the hnnd of Bclence nnd of man wilt eventually solve this liddle nnd It Is safe to predict tbnt beforo many years these millions of acres will bo under cultivation, and If the wators of thu Snake Klvor are systematically conserved this will not bo such a great problem. The lecent government piojcct officially offi-cially opened In the Salt Hher Valley, Val-ley, Arizona, March 18 of this year, Is one of the greatest fonts In Irrigation Irri-gation engineering. Tbo title of tho dnin is named Roosevelt, after tho ex-piesldent, nnd of course. Thcodorg Ilosovelt vvns the honored guest nt tho celebration. The Immensity of the project can be lenlizcd from the following fol-lowing statement. The Hooscvclt dam is 2S0 feet high, 1,080 feet long on top and I US feet thick nt tbo bottom Tho dnnucost more than J3.000.000 nnd the whole ixroject $9,000,000. The flist contract vvns let in Apt II 1905, and tho first stono laid In September 190.". Tho dam was completed February Febru-ary , 1911, six jcais having been consumed In construction. This wonderful won-derful stiuctiiro will water 210,000 ncres. It will stoic 1,281,000 aero feet, enough water to cover tho Statu of Hhodu Island one foot deep. No wonder tho cry still goes forth "Hack to tho Land," for tho desert is destined to bloom nnd blossom as the rose. |