316 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



ernment Survey has been an attempt to all the people. There will be larger op- 

 locate these strata and find whether it is portunities than ever before, and the re- 

 practicable to attempt to reach them. If wards will be greater than at any time in 

 they can be found without too deep bor- the world's history. 



ings, not only will the grazers receive a Irrigation has already achieved miracles 



great benefit, but land will become valu- in the far West and it is only in its begin- 



able for high class agriculture and the ning. Millions and millions of people will 



support of a large population. find beautiful homes on what are now arid 



plains. Water will make the deserts 



Leader of the This country, with its seventy- ,, ,., , . -c,, .. 



* bloom like a garden of Eden, just as it 

 wono. fi ve millions now leads the , ,-r>. ., , ,, , -nv 



has at Riverside and other places in Cali- 

 civilized world. But with so vast a conti- . m, ,, . , ,, ,, 



forma. Thus there will be on the other 



nent, the resources of which have merely . , , ,, ,, ,, , 



J side of the Mississippi, in the course of 



been touched, it is certain that it has only ,. , .. ,, , ,. , 



J time, as great a population as that which 

 passed the first great stage of its distinc- . , , -,-, ,., 



stretches eastward. Every year the centre 

 tion. The new century opens a vista of , , ,. , v-, 



of population moves westward. Every 

 growth in material and political things , , ., . . 



decade this rate of movement will grow 

 that invites the highest ambition of schol- ... 



swifter, 

 ars and statesmen, and the best energies of 



BY THE WAY. 



Life's a journey, 



Not so long, 

 Try to ease it 



With a song. 

 Birds, though busy 



On the wing, 

 Pause a little 



While they sing. 

 Music soft 



The traveler hears 

 If he doesn't 



Close his ears. 

 Teeming nature 



Still finds room 

 For the fragile 



Flow'rets bloom. 

 Loveliness 



The traveler spies 

 If he doesn't 



Close his eyes. 



Washington &tar. 



