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monwealth enormously strengthened by the addition of a producing 

 population where each head of family owns and lives upon his farm. 

 To bring about this happy result it is impossible to trust to speculative 

 enterprise, because of the fact that profits cannot be made in the con- 

 struction of a work unless the population becomes tenants of a great 

 land - owning monopoly . ' ' 



Public funds must be wisely used in the construction of works of 

 reclamation, and this will surely come about when the people of the 

 country are fully conversant with the facts. These facts are being 

 obtained by the investigations of the United States Geological Survey 

 in the water resources of the country and the extent to which the arid 

 lands can be redeemed by irrigation. The Survey is doing excellent 

 work. 



GUY E. MITCHELL. 



