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to the arid region. But I notice that nothing is ever offered in this 

 body in the interests of that section that some senator from the east- 

 ern seaboard, whose section has been amply provided for, does not 

 discover that the work could better be done by somebody else than 

 the particular person to whom it is proposed to be entrusted, or he 

 discovers that we are going into a reckless appropriation which ought 

 to be suddenly stopped at a point where the interests of the West re- 

 quire consideration." 



THE SOUTH LENDS A HAND. 



The gauging of streams in the South Atlantic and other southern 

 states by the government may not seem a matter of very great im- 

 portance or interest to the people of the arid region of the West, 

 nevertheless it is likely to be a means of helping them materially. For 

 years the West has had to make its fight for irrigation surveys alone, 

 with but little assistance from senators or congressmen east of the 

 humid line; it was a matter in which they had little interest, though 

 some of them might recognize the justice of such appropriations. But 

 during recent years the people of the South, whose manufacturing 

 enterprises have been springing up like mushroons in the night, have 

 come to a realization of the importance and necessity of the work of 

 the geological survey, especially in its measurements and gauging of 

 streams available for po^er to be used in manufacturing plants. 



And so now, when the question arose of allowing an increased ap- 

 propriation to the geological survey for irrigation surveying and in- 

 vestigation in the semi-arid and arid West and for stream gauging in 

 all the states, those who always take occasion to oppose such appro- 

 priations, suddenly found lined up against them southern senators 

 who expressed their determination to co-operate with western repre- 

 sentations in behalf of this needed government work. The vigorous 

 words of Senator Butler, of North Carolina, in the United States sen- 

 ate in favor of this appropriation show that the manufacturing sec- 

 tions of the South highly appreciate the value of this work and that 

 henceforth they will sympathetically join hands with the arid region 

 to procure necessary national legislation along these lines. 



