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man, the wise industry, the wise nation, maintains 

 such capital unimpaired and tries to increase it; 

 and more and more the range lands will be used 

 in conjunction with the small irrigable areas which 

 they include; so that the industry can take on a 

 more stable character than ever before. It is im- 

 possible permanently, although it may be advisable 

 for the time being, to move stock in a body from 

 summer to winter ranges across country which can 

 be made into homesteads, because when the country 

 can itself be taken by actual settlers, in the long 

 run it will only be possible to move the stock through 

 hundreds of miles of dusty lanes where they can 

 not graze, where they can not live. Our aim must 

 be steadily to help develop the settler, the man who 

 lives in the land and in growing up with it and 

 raising his children to own it after him. More 

 and more hereafter the stock owners will have the 

 necessity forced upon them of providing green 

 summer pasturage within the limits of their own 

 ranges; and so the question of irrigation is well- 

 nigh as important to the stockmen as to the agri- 

 culturist proper. 



In the same way our mountain forests must be 

 preserved from the harm done by over-grazing. 

 Let all the grazing be done in them that can be done 

 without injury to them, but do not let the moun- 

 tain forests be despoiled by the man who will over- 

 graze them and destroy them for the sake of three 

 years' use, and then go somewhere else, and leave 

 by so much diminished the heritage of those who 



