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is much natural pasturage. Where that is the case 

 the object is to have that pasturage used by the 

 settlers, by the people of the Territory, not eaten 

 out so that nobody will have the benefit after 

 three years. I want the land preserved so that 

 the pasturage will do, not merely for a man who 

 wants to make a good thing out of it for two or 

 three years, but for the man who wishes to see it 

 preserved for the use of his children and his chil 

 dren's children. That is the way to use the re 

 sources of the land. I build no small hope upon the 

 aid that under the wise law of Congress will ulti 

 mately be extended to this as to other States and 

 Territories in the way of governmental aid to irri 

 gation. Irrigation is of course to be in the future 

 wellnigh the most potent factor in the agricultural 

 development of this Territory and one of the factors 

 which will do most toward bringing it up to State 

 hood. Nothing will count more than development 

 of that kind in bringing the Territory in as a State. 

 That is the kind of development which I am most 

 anxious to see here the development that means 

 permanent growth in the capacity of the land, not 

 temporary, not the exploiting of the land for a year 

 or two at the cost of its future impoverishment, but 

 the building up of farm and ranch in such shape 

 as to benefit the home-maker whose intention it is 

 that this Territory of the present, this State of the 

 future, shall be a great State in the American Union. 



17 VOL. XIII. 



