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Oliviously the prtR'tic-al signiticanee of any such experiments in 

 the event of their proving successful would be very great. The 

 vast areas of alkali land in this state which at present are worth- 

 less could be made to increase California's wealth enormously 

 if they can be treated so as to make them produce, and par- 

 ticularly if they can be treated cheaply. If our experiments 

 should turn out to l)e entirely successful, as we now have good 

 reason to think they will, treatment of alkali land as outlined 

 above to make it profitable, should prove, relatively, to all other 

 methods, by far the cheapest method of reclamation. 



Transmitted April 16, 1915. 



