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I say when I use the word destructive lumbering; 

 no one can desire to prevent, or do anything but 

 help, practical and conservative lumbering. In other 

 words, my fellow-citizens, we have reached a con- 

 dition in which it must be the object of the Nation 

 and the State to favor the development of the home- 

 maker, of the man who takes up the land intend- 

 ing to keep it for himself and for his children, 

 so that it shall be even of better use to them 

 than to him. 



The opportunities for the development of Nevada 

 are very great. Until recently Nevada was only 

 thought of as a mineral and stock-raising State. 

 Much can be done yet as regards both the mineral 

 exploitation and the raising of stock within the 

 State; but now under the stimulus of irrigation it 

 is probable that irrigated agriculture will come to 

 the front, and when it does the population will in- 

 crease with a rapidity and permanence never before 

 known. The State of Nevada has led the way not 

 only in the strength of its plea for national aid in 

 irrigation, but also in its willingness to assist in the 

 work. I wish to lay emphasis on the fact that in 

 Nevada the authorities have been anxious in every 

 way to help in working out the problem of irri- 

 gation; and to pay all acknowledgment to them 

 now. The recent Legislature passed laws which in 

 many respects should serve as models for the legis- 

 lation of other States. The union of land and water 

 under the national law has been recognized, and so 

 has the fundamental proposition which necessarily 



