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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



was received, like the others, in time to be submitted 

 to the Boston mass-meeting: 



"WALLA WALLA, WASH., March 18, 1895. 

 "Washington will welcome homeseekers with out- 

 stretched arms. Carey law utilized. Homes for half 

 a million people can be offered on irrigable lands of 

 Washington, where fruit trees are now in bloom, and 

 gardens and wheat fields are green. Lowest temper- 

 ature of past winter 11 above /.ero. 



(Signed; "N. G. BLALOCK, 



"Member for Washington.'' 



Character The struggle for and against the utiliza- 

 of j| te tion of the Carey law brought out a va- 

 L,aws. riety of bills in the different States, and 

 at this writing we have not at hand the full text of 

 the measures as they were finally passed. We can- 

 not, therefore, analyze them fully at this time. We 

 know, however, that Idaho and Montana have gained 

 the supreme advantage of providing State engineers, 

 and that the effort has generally been to follow the lead 

 of Wyoming. By the way, we are advised that our 

 comment of last month on the powers conferred upon 

 the State engineer in Wyoming was based upon the 

 original draft of the bill, and that the measure as 

 enacted makes this official merely the consulting en- 

 gineer of the Board of Public Lands. We shall take 



A Roll 



of 

 Honor. 



early occasion to compare and discuss the measures 

 which have been passed in Wyoming, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana and Washington, and which have opened to 

 settlement, under the new law, 4,000,000 acres in those 

 States. 



The day will sometime come when not 

 only the Western people, but the broader 

 American public, will realize how well 

 they have been served by the unpaid, tireless and 

 undefeatable group of men who compose the Na- 

 tional Executive Committee of the Irrigation Con- 

 gress. These men have given generously of time, 

 money and effort to carry forward the common cause 

 of the West in face of indifference and opposition. 

 The following have devoted a hard winter's fight to 

 render the Carey Law effective in their States: 



ELWOOD MEAD, Wyoming. 



DOUGLAS W. ROSS, Idaho. 



S. B. ROBBINS, Montana. 



N. G. BLALOCK, Washington. 



L. H. TAYLOR, Nevada. 



F. H. BRIGHAM, Oregon. 



Four of them have succeeded, and their States are 

 to-day facing, in consequence, the greatest opportu- 

 nity of their existence. To this roll may be added 

 the names of J. W. Gregory and I. A. Fort, who, in 



ACRES OF CARNATIONS. 



Through Courtesy of "The Land of Sunshine. 



