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tion under the Carey Act if wise provision shall be 

 made by the State legislature for carrying it into 

 effect. 



A STATE IRRIGATION CONVENTION. 



In order that proper consideration be given the 

 subject, a State irrigation convention should be called 

 to meet at some convenient point in Wyoming at least 

 one month previous to the assembling of the legisla- 

 ture. The county commissioners of each county of 

 the State should appoint three persons from their 

 respective counties, at least one of these delegates to 

 be a practical irrigator, as delegates to the State con- 

 vention. A representative of the general land office 

 should be invited to attend and measures should be 

 adopted after full consideration and discussion of the 

 subject, to be submitted to the State legislature to be 

 embodied, if no better plans are suggested, in the 

 laws under which the gift may be utilized. 



WHAT SUCCESS MEANS. 



The successful reclamation and settlement of the 

 one-million-acre grant to Wyoming means that at 

 least $5,000,000 outside capital will come into the 

 State to be expended on permanent improvements. 

 That at least $10,000,000.00 of taxable property will be 

 added to the State's assessed valuation. That taxes 

 will be reduced by reason of this increased valuation 

 twenty-five to thirty per cent. That the population 

 of the State will be increased fifty percent. That if 

 from this source capital finds a profitable field of in- 

 vestment in Wyoming, capital will also be forth- 

 coming to develop the natural resources of oil, coal, 

 precious minerals and lumber which the State con- 

 tains, and that within a short period Wyoming will 

 take the place to which it is entitled in the commer- 

 cial world and become a progressive rather than a 

 retrogressive commonwealth. 



SHADED PORTIONS SHOW LAND CAPABLE OF RECLAMATION UNDER THE CAREY LAW. 



