﻿NATIONAL 
  EFFORTS 
  AT 
  HOME 
  MAKING. 
  

  

  By 
  F. 
  H. 
  Newell, 
  

   Consulting 
  Engineer, 
  Reclamation 
  Service. 
  

  

  [With 
  10 
  plated] 
  

  

  The 
  home 
  is 
  the 
  foundation 
  of 
  all 
  that 
  is 
  best 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  Its 
  

   preservation 
  and 
  the 
  perpetuation 
  of 
  its 
  ideals 
  are 
  duties 
  for 
  the 
  

   Nation; 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  none 
  higher 
  than 
  to 
  furnish 
  opportunities 
  for 
  

   homes 
  for 
  self-reliant 
  citizens, 
  particularly 
  those 
  of 
  tne 
  pioneer 
  type, 
  

   whose 
  past 
  achievements 
  stand 
  out 
  on 
  the 
  pages 
  of 
  American 
  history. 
  

   Even 
  yet 
  the 
  pioneer 
  period 
  has 
  not 
  wholly 
  passed; 
  the 
  pioneers 
  are 
  

   the 
  people 
  who 
  are 
  putting 
  to 
  use 
  the 
  undeveloped 
  natural 
  resources 
  ; 
  

   they 
  are 
  making 
  farms 
  and 
  homes 
  in 
  areas 
  which 
  otherwise 
  would 
  be 
  

   waste 
  and 
  desolate. 
  Modern 
  science 
  is 
  helping 
  these 
  pioneers; 
  it 
  is 
  

   extending 
  their 
  opportunities 
  and 
  lightening 
  their 
  labors. 
  Notable 
  

   in 
  this 
  connection, 
  aifording 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  examples 
  of 
  scientific 
  in- 
  

   vestigation 
  followed 
  by 
  practical 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  results, 
  are 
  the 
  

   works 
  designed 
  and 
  built 
  by 
  the 
  Reclamation 
  Service. 
  These, 
  while 
  

   in 
  part 
  monumental 
  in 
  character, 
  are 
  only 
  a 
  means 
  to 
  an 
  end; 
  that 
  

   end 
  is 
  the 
  creation 
  of 
  opportunities 
  for 
  small, 
  self-supporting 
  farm 
  

   homes 
  such 
  as 
  will 
  add 
  to 
  the 
  strength 
  of 
  the 
  Nation. 
  

  

  This 
  ideal, 
  namely 
  that 
  the 
  Nation, 
  to 
  insure 
  its 
  own 
  life, 
  should 
  

   provide 
  opportunities 
  for 
  homes 
  for 
  its 
  citizens, 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  new. 
  

   It 
  is 
  as 
  old 
  as 
  history, 
  so 
  far 
  at 
  least 
  as 
  it 
  pertains 
  to 
  the 
  settlement 
  

   of 
  soldier 
  citizens, 
  particularly 
  following 
  wars 
  of 
  conquest. 
  It 
  has 
  

   been 
  adopted 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  as 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  its 
  policy 
  in 
  the 
  dis- 
  

   posal 
  of 
  public 
  lands. 
  After 
  the 
  Civil 
  War 
  in 
  particular 
  the 
  Nation 
  

   encouraged 
  the 
  settlement 
  of 
  the 
  men, 
  who 
  had 
  preserved 
  its 
  life, 
  on 
  

   the 
  vast 
  extent 
  of 
  vacant 
  plow 
  lands 
  beyond 
  the 
  Mississippi. 
  Such 
  

   lands, 
  readily 
  tillable, 
  have 
  now 
  disappeared. 
  They 
  have 
  all 
  been 
  

   taken 
  up, 
  but 
  there 
  remain 
  millions 
  of 
  acres 
  of 
  unused 
  lands 
  which 
  

   have 
  good 
  soil, 
  much 
  of 
  it 
  still 
  in 
  public 
  ownership 
  and 
  open 
  to 
  

   entry 
  and 
  settlement. 
  Some 
  obstacle 
  — 
  either 
  lack 
  of 
  water, 
  or 
  ex- 
  

   cess 
  of 
  it 
  — 
  is 
  preventing 
  the 
  continuation 
  of 
  home 
  making 
  on 
  these 
  

   lands. 
  

  

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