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THE JKRIGATIOX ACT. 



tion law in so many of those western states, and the lack of such na- 

 tional legislation as shall set at rest all doubts as to the proper and 

 equitable distribution of the waters of the interstate rivers are the 

 most serious obstacles to the reclamation of the arid lauds of our 

 western states today. 



With these matters all adjusted, with all the now conflicting inte- 

 rests harmonized, there will be little difficulty in securing the appro- 

 priation and the neceseary legislation for the utilization of our now 

 wasted water resources, and the arid west will enter on an era of de- 

 velopment and progress, the like of which she has not yet seen. 



