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or from any of the departments at Washington in favor of this policy. 



Let us have liberal appropriations for hydrographic surveys. 

 There is no field of activity in which the national government can do 

 more good than in the work that is being carried on by the Geological 

 Survey in pointing the way to the development and conservation of 

 the water resources of the country. 



Let us have a Division of Irrigation in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. The preamble to the resolution adopted at the Cheyenne Irri- 

 gation Congress recommending the creation of such a Division points 

 out the many ways in which its labors might be of vast benefit to 

 those who are tilling the arid lands of the West, ; and who are con- 

 fronted by many problems which they need the aid of such a division 

 to aid them to solve . 



Let us have Federal Storage Reservoirs as part of the National 

 Policy of Internal Improvements, giving to the arid west its propor- 

 tion of the whole amount expended by the national government annu- 

 ally for such improvements, to be used in the construction of storage 

 reservoirs to develop the material resources of the West, as the build- 

 ing of river and harbor improvements develops the material resources 

 of the East. 



There is and can be no right reason why there should be conflict 

 between either of the Departments named in working out this great 

 problem. Let each, and the friends of each, do all that they can 

 towards the accomplishment of the one grand result to which all are 

 working, and let all the people once realize the enormous benefits to 

 the whole nation that will result from the carrying out of this work, 

 and the opportunities of each department to labor in it will be enor- 

 mously increased. 



Let us then give "a;long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all to- 

 gether/' and those of this generation will see Arid America Annexed. 



