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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



to nationality and section, hold up their hands in mute 

 appeal to the makers of financial policies. And the 

 great, silent, hopeful, generous West conscious of 

 its enormous ability to sustain population and create 

 wealth- awaits with keen interest the outcome of 

 events. 



Hopeful A representative of THE IRRIGATION 

 Nevada AGE recently spent a few days at Carson, 

 Men. Nevada, and writes enthusiastically of 

 the capabilities and attractions of that much- 

 abused and little-understood State of the Sierras. 

 He insists that it has the climate best suited to the 

 Anglo-Saxon race, that it has the soil essential for 

 diversified production and that its water supply is 

 such as to offer remarkable inducements for irriga- 

 tion enterprise. And above all, he asserts that 

 Nevada has the men necessary to make a State. He 

 names John E. Jones of the National Committee, 

 Governor Colcord, A. M. Gerrington, Messrs. Taylor, 

 Stewart, Rule and Fulton of Reno, the Newlands and 

 many others, who are live champions of their State. 

 The Nevada exhibit at the World's Fair, quite fully 

 described in these pages last September, was a 

 splendid revelation of the natural endowments and 

 industrial possibilities of this State. That it has a 

 great future in store no thoughtful man can dispute, 

 but it is not strange that the people are somewhat 

 impatient for that future to begin to materialize. 

 Certainly Nevada ought to be able to obtain her share 

 of the benefits certain to follow the present aroused 

 interest in colonization and irrigation development. 



Welcome, During the past month the national or- 

 Georgia . . 



and ganization or the irrigation movement 



Florida. nag rece j ve( j applications from citizens 

 of the States of Georgia and Florida, for representa- 

 tion on the National Committee as a preliminary to 

 the presentation of their irrigation possibilities at the 

 next Irrigation Congress. And, of course, the answer 

 has been, " Welcome Georgia! Welcome Florida! 1 ' 

 W. G. Whidby of Atlanta, has been named as the 

 member for Georgia, and W. C. Kingsbury of Win- 

 ter Park, member for Florida. Both of these south- 

 ern States will be heard at the next congress, and it 

 is even possible that the commission may render 

 full reports upon their irrigation interests. We pre- 

 dict that within ten years, and we believe half that 

 time, every State in the Union will have irrigation 

 before it as a local problem, and that gradually we 

 shall approach that happy State of civilization, based 

 on small farms, sure crops, diversified production, 



and their social and economic concomitants, that the 

 whole country would have realized decades since if 

 the Pilgrims Fathers had landed at San Diego, rather 

 than at Plymouth. 



Where ^ Connecticut subscriber of THE AGE 

 is a Bank writes to inquire as follows: "Do you 

 Wanted? know of a good location for a bank ? 

 Would like to get in an irrigated section having good 

 prospects of development, and in a town where a 

 good line of depositors could be secured." This 

 eastern man appreciates the solidity of a country 

 whose crops are insured by the ditch and which will 

 enjoy part of the enduring prosperity certain to come 

 to Arid America. We have no doubt there are many 

 places whe.re a new bank is needed that meet the 

 requirements stated. Applications addressed to THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, will be promptly for- 

 warded. 



No utterance of an eastern public man 

 "Tom" Reed . ...... 



Beholds in years has given the friends of west- 

 tie Dawn. ern America such satisfaction as the ex- 

 tract from the Pittsburg speech of big " Tom " Reed, 

 of Maine, quoted on page 195 of this number of THE 

 AGE. It is particularly pleasing because of the way 

 in which it was said. It was not a studied speech, 

 and formed only an incidental paragraph in the 

 course of impromptu remarks. It is thus relieved of 

 all color of presidential posing which it might have 

 had if put forth as a conspicuous feature of a set 

 speech addressed to western men. It may be ac- 

 cepted as evidence that one of the strongest of mod- 

 ern American statesmen a New Englander, with a 

 marked nasal twang at that, has beheld the tints of 

 dawn for Arid America. We cannot be far, then, 

 from general appreciation of the true significance of 

 our new institutions and from that enthusiastic coop- 

 eration of our countrymen which means the furnish- 

 ing of money and men, and plenty of them. " Tom " 

 Reed may yet irrigate his presidential boom with the 

 votes of western men. 



Ex-Governor Thomas, of Utah, advises 



W. H. Rowe ... . . f A , XT . , 



Succeeds Vice-Chairman Gregory, or the National 



Gov. Thomas Committee, that he will not accept the 

 Utah membership of that body. Mr. William H. 

 Rowe, of Salt Lake City, was promptly named to fill 

 the vacancy and he will at once organize the long- 

 neglected work in that important field. The report 

 of the Irrigation Commissioner of Utah will command 

 wide attention because of the successful development 

 of the industry along peculiar lines in that locality. 



