THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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ditches. . And further, to supervise the division of the waters of the 

 state among the various claimants in accordance with the Board's 

 decrees. 



The second bill was modeled after the "Wright" law of California, 

 the provisions of which are so well known as to require no description 

 here. The effect of this legislation is already apparent; a number of 

 irrigation districts are now organized or in process of organization. 



In view of the results thus far achieved, and the nattering condi- 

 tions under which further progress will be made, the friends of irriga- 

 tion are fully justified in contemplating with complacence 'the future 

 of that industrv in Nebraska. Though, for lack of water, it may not 

 be possible to eventually reclaim more than six or seven per cent of 

 the 30,000,000 acres embraced within the semi-humid portion of the 

 state, yet the intensive cultivation of this seemingly small area will 

 place Nebraska in the front rank of the irrigation states, and in con- 

 nection with the stock growing interests, assure the livelihood, con- 

 tentment and happiness of a half million people west of the hundredth 

 meridian. 



