Show NATIONAL irrigation ON it involves no taxation and ad it bane ben fit will ba be the new national irrigation law in br by president roosevelt is i destined to reclaim acre acres of or fertile soil during the next thirty years these lands are located west of 0 the missouri river and are now barren dea des erts cut up into 20 acre farms 7 BOO NO families could be accommodated with fite in a family the population would be OW souls inning mining towns manufacturing center centers and lumbering in teresta would sprine spring into life ai as a consequence quell and sustain an equal population perhaps anch larger thus within one generation ener atlon we may possibly see ee newly established la in the west a population fully equal to that of the tb entire united states at present the fund already provided tor for this talismanic talisman lc rejuvenation will wilt continue to revolve in a circle until its blessed work ii to completed then it wilt will be turned back into uncle sam sams a treasury in its ent entirety Arety the government gOT emment ha has never be tore forie enacted a law freighted with such possibilities of food good to the th citizen and land home builder the republican homestead law was the beit best tiling thing of its kind ua un to now but the irrigated home turned over to the occupant at the actual cost of irrigating it beat the world no mit mao can purchase more than IGO acres cre of the government gOT emment irritated irrigated land ut he must reside upon it fire five years and pay tor for the cost at of irritating irrigating in ten ton equal annual installments without interest these money moneys come from the ale sale of public lands in the arid and states and no citizen of the united state states is taxed tor for this purpose even fite five per cent of these theme funds goes to the state states s and territories tem torie interested tor for educational purpose alesa soless the cost of handling the it was estimated that it would require ten ton year years to accumulate to ift the and rand only two years bare have elapsed alnee the passage of the th law and agad therit ther is about 25 already ae accumulated cumulated being ultra conservative and lag only 3 annual income it will b be seen that during the first tea ten years the cross amount will be eked out to 50 in the second tea ten year period more would come in from the same source and in addition the 50 invested In Tested in the first tea ten years would come back for r davest meat this would make a total sum aTai lable for investment la in new work works in the second ten year period of this whole sum of would come back again tor for miu re vestment in the third ten year period and another would be added to it from sales its of land during this third ten years making a total sum earn available arall atile in the third ten ton year period for investment in new we work aka the um sum of t would thus hate have been used in the construction of reclamation works if no other moneys were made available aTai lable within 91 period of thirty years after all the land which could be reclaimed by the national nati enal government ore had bad been prepared for redan atlon and ad settle tont meat the whole moua which the coy OT I 1 eminent had invested in these work works of 0 reclamation would finally corn come bade back to it it is in this remarkable fact that every dollar invested by the government for the reclamation of the arid and public domain is to be paid back to it by the set et tiers who get the land that the great strength and potency of 0 the act lies it was chiefly this feature of the law that commended it to the conservative judg ment of the people of the th country gen brally only the th government it Is equal to the herculean taste task title to the arid and landa lands rests ia in the government it Is the mountains are filled with minerals of every description for which man has ever found a use their precipitous no tillable fides sides are covered with forest growths that will perpetually MIT serve to hous house the nation their high attitudes are nature a eternal reservoirs of moi mole tur ture it is here that she heaves her white breasts dearest nearest the sky and locks the storm la in a cold embrace tion is the key that is to unlock this wealth to teeming million millions here and there in favored spots private enterprise ir is to tapped al se living streams and reservoirs and cities of wonderful beauty hare have sprung up oat out of the desert as it if ly ty masic magic individual effort has listi shown irrigation to be fe feasible amble lands have iwen bought froia from the government or en under the land law improved tax able property created and national wealth has ties followed the nation could do erea even better bettee la a the tb improvement of its own property measureless are to be the benefits to the ration nation from this rational national irritation irrigation movement from its economic from its social from its moral side the problem is 18 unassailable no one can gainsay the vital need of its establishment as a eoon soon as possible on the tillage of the soil go rests the prosperity of all sill other indus tries trier upon the of boutes rests the independence of a nation irti gation compels email small holdings and in creases the number of those who call no man master irrigation Is a fruitful theme for study it has a boundless potency for elvi liza tion on the desert sands of egypt it reared the most mighty empire of an chent days in india it is today to day tying fring and a waited land laud in ick america its mission has but begun yet gifts promise of untold blessings to man |