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The entangling alliance of State with land sharps will be fruitful 

 of no public good. As almost all have more land than they can 

 properly work after irrigation, let them sell a part to enhance the 

 value of the remainder. 



Let it be understood by all who read this article that it is written 

 for the purpose of urging men of legislative capacity to frame an 

 effective law upon a most difficult subject, as the above is but a crude 

 and unfinished sketch. 



How to wrest from the water-grabbers the waters of the State will 

 puzzle many able men, and the legislator who can frame an act to do 

 so should be well appreciated by his fellow-men. It may save much 

 trouble in the Legislature, and enable our law makers to approach 

 the subject with more intelligence if some of the legal minds of the 

 State would publish in the journals of the day the outline or draft 

 of a law applicable to the case, for no hasty legislation can properly 

 encompass the great questions involved. 



Another relation of irrigation to the public welfare must not 

 be overlooked in our attention to its vast material benefits. 



At a meeting of the California State Medical Society, Dr. 

 Carr introduced the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Whereas, The matter of irrigation is one of vital importance to the 

 agricultural interests of California; and, 



Whereas, The same is more or less connected with the health of 

 the whole community; therefore, 



Resolved, That each member of this society be earnestly requested 

 to gather all the statistics and information in their several localities 

 in regard to the effect of mining and irrigating ditches or canals 

 upon the public health, and report the same to the Chairman of the 

 Committee on Hygiene, at their earliest convenience. 



CHAPTEE XXL 



TRANSPORTATION. 

 &quot; Transportation is King.&quot; 



RESULTS OF RAILROAD INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS COMMITTEE, HOW FORMED 

 EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCHES MAGNITUDE ou- INTERESTS INVOLVED INADEQUACY 

 OF MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION DEFECTS AND ABUSES DISCRIMINATIONS AND 

 EXTORTIONS STOCK WATERING CAPITALIZATION OF EARNINGS CONSTRUCTION 

 RINGS UNJUST DISCRIMINATIONS GENERAL EXTRAVAGANCE AND CORRUPTION 

 OF RAILWAY MANAGEMENT COMBINATIONS AND CONSOLIDATIONS NOMINAL 

 CAPITAL AND FICTITIOUS STOCK EXCESS OF CAPITAL OVER ACTUAL STOCK IL 

 LUSTRATIONSHOW EVILS MAY BE REMEDIED SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND 

 RECOMMENDATIONS CONGRESS MAY REGULATE INTER-STATE TRANSPORTATION. 



THE greatest drawback to the development of agriculture in 

 Calitornia is the distance of our markets, and the lack of stim- 



