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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



ELWOOD MEAD, 

 State Engineer of Wyoming: Cheyenne. 



M. G. Utley of Rhode Island; national 

 lecturers, J. Emery of Kansas and I. A. 

 Fort of Nebraska. 



The national committee chosen em- 

 braces: Arizona, James McClintock; Cali- 

 fornia, J. D. Schuyler; Colorado, L. Kel- 

 logg; Connecticut, J. B. Abbott; Idaho, 

 F. J. Mills; Illinois, Dr. Clarke Gapen; 

 Iowa, Professor J. D. Budd; Kansas, J. 

 H. Churchill; Maryland, G. W. Garrett; 

 Montana, S. M. Emery; Missouri, H. C. 

 Weber; Michigan, Fred B. Spread; Min- 

 nesota, T. M. Frost; Nebraska, A. G. 

 Wolfenbarger; New Mexico, C. P. Fancher; 

 New York, Dix W. Smith; Nevada, L. H. 

 Taylor; North Dakota, W. W. Barrett; 

 Oklahoma, Professor Henry E. Glazier; 

 Ohio, B. F. Shuart; Pennsylvania, George 

 W. Alperton; Rhode Island, M. G. Utley; 

 Texas, W. S. Marshall; Utah, L. W. 

 Slmrtliff; Washington, L. S. Hewlett; 

 Wisconsin, J. E. Godding; District of 

 Columbia, Judge Emery F. Best. 



Land The question of right and title 

 and to land, and the necessary water 



Water. f or the irrigation thereof, is of 

 the utmost importance in all our Western 

 States. It is a question which has been 

 discussed many times, but no adequate 

 solution has yet been found, at least none 



has been crystallyzed into a law and placed 

 upon the statute books, either of the various 

 States or the Nation at large. This con- 

 dition cannot exist forever; it is working 

 a grave injustice to those already settled 

 on arid land, and to those who are crowded 

 into the large cities unable to find employ- 

 ment and support for themselves and fam- 

 ilies, while the public domain, rich to 

 bursting of nature's wealth, is lying unoc- 

 cupied and unused. As long as the title 

 to public land remains in the Federal gov- 

 ernment and the right to sanction the use 

 of water in the various State governments, 

 this vast heritage of the people will remain 

 unoccupied. This question has been 

 solved and re-solved by those laboring for 

 the public good, as well as those with an 

 eye single to a personal interest; it has 

 been strained through a sieve, which like 

 the grist from the mills of the gods is 

 "exceeding fine," but no general solu- 

 tion of the anomaly of two distinct organ- 

 izations controlling nature's resources, 

 land and water, the combination of which 

 is so absolutely essential to successful 

 agriculture in the arid regions, has yet 

 met with sufficient popular favor to recom- 

 mend it to our learned legislators at Wash- 

 ington. 



JOHN E. FROST, 

 Land Commissioner A. T. & S. F. Ity , Topeka, Kansas. 



