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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



man, woman or child who can single- 

 handed cultivate thirty acres? 



Manifestly there is room for farmers 

 and there is need for farmers in the West. 

 There is room for them to make homes 

 for themselves. There is need for them 

 to build up the communities, to improve 

 the prosperity of existing institutions, to 

 make markets for manufactories, to in- 

 crease avenues of employment, in short to 

 lay the foundation for general community 

 advancement. The West is ready to re- 

 ceive the immigrants "with $3,000 and 

 $6,000" who are said to be moving to 

 Mexico. It has abundant room for the 

 colonization scheme of the laboring men 

 of Chicago. Its non-48-cent boom days 

 have not entirely vanished. 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDUSTRY. 



Aside from the farmers who may get 

 their living out of the soil there are oppor- 

 tunities for the tradesmen and craftsmen 

 who have funds enough to inaugurate 

 small manufacturing enterprises, enter- 

 prises calculated at first only to supply 

 home demands. (There is no room at 

 present for large ventures). There is 

 room for men who will promote unpre- 

 tentious traffic accommodations, short 

 lines of railroads into the rural and min- 

 ing districts. Such undertakings will cre- 

 ate employment for surveyors who can be 

 modest enough to begin on something less 

 than surveying a tunnel through Pike's 

 Peak or running a sky line from Chicago 

 to Yellowstone Park or Mt. St. Elias. 



There is. room for irrigation engineers, 

 men who first will master the small prob- 

 lems of their home districts before seek- 

 ing to dam up the Rio Grande or divert 

 the channel of the Columbia. 



There is room for young statesmen who 

 will begin by being county men or city 

 men before insisting upon going to the 

 United States Senate. 



There is room for mining prospectors, 

 men who have the hardihood and a little 

 of the wherewithal that the men of '49 

 and '58 had; men who are not afraid to 

 venture into the unexplored deserts of 



Nevada or the dry mountains of Arizona, 

 and who will stay there until they find 

 what they seek. There is no room for 

 "grub-stakers" who expect others to sup- 

 port them. 



There is room for students of mineral- 

 ogy who will not insist upon contradicting 

 the judgment of men of experience, but 

 who will learn from nature as readily and 

 eagerly as they have learned from books 

 and cabinets. 



Then when you have passed over into 

 the grander phases of human occupation 

 the West still offers inducements as in- 

 spiring to the imagination as the conquest 

 of continent or the discoveries of con- 

 solidated Virginias. 



Of this, Cripple Creek is an instance. 

 Fabulous wealth was found where live 

 stock had grazed; but only a few of the 

 thousands of prospectors were rewarded 

 with fortune: a lottery the good or ill of 

 which the fortune seeker must have the 

 courage to accept without complaint. 



Cripple Creek is being duplicated in 

 Randsburg, California, and in Kootenai, 

 just across the border of Washington. It 

 may be duplicated at Yuma, Arizona, at 

 Grand Encampment in Wyoming, at 

 Hahn's Peak, in Colorado, at Gold Creek 

 near Elko, Neveda, or at any one of hun- 

 dreds of new gold camps in any one of the 

 Rocky Mountain or Sierra Nevada or Cas- 

 cade Range states. 



Again the man who may invent a new 

 mineral treatment, such as the cyanide and 

 concentration processes may revolution- 

 ize a mining industry, or bring into value 

 tons of low grade ore which hitherto has 

 been thrown away as useless. 



In the same manner inventive genius 

 may discover a means of perfecting the 

 scheme of "dry farming" whereby many 

 arid acres as yet inaccessible to irrigation 

 are already being made fruitful without 

 irrigation. 



Or inventive and engineering skill may 

 devote itself for a generation yet to come 

 to the problem of impounding and dis- 



