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American activities. The Pacific Ocean is 

 ours, and the gulf is ours. Let those join 

 hands, not across, nor over, but through the 

 isthmus, and the Atlantic shall be ours. 

 Discover means for informing our people 

 what distant portions of the world require, 

 and it will be produced." 



Mr. Shaw's address was received with 

 demonstrations of approval which place 

 the National Business League Squarely at 

 the front of the national irrigation move- 

 ment. 



Representing such unlimited re-ources 

 the positive stand taken by the Business 

 League brightens the outlook for early ac- 

 tivity in congress, and brings new hope to 

 the believers in the greatness of the West. 



Our limited space will only pernjit an 

 extract from one other notable address: 



In arguing for the reclamation of arid 

 lands Cornelius J. Gavin! of New Mexico, 

 said that of the remaining 600.000.0UU 

 acres of available government lands 100.- 

 000,000 acres were susceptible of irrigation, 

 if steps were taken by the government to 

 save the forests and store the floods. 



"The government," he said, "would be 

 simply investing for the time beinjr a part 

 of the nearly $400,000.000 it has received 

 from the sale of its Western lands until the 

 sturdy pioneers could pay back every cent 

 the government expends to give them an 

 opportunity to build up an agricultural em- 

 pire, as they did elsewhere in their west- 

 ward march from the shores of the At: 

 l&ntic. 



"Every citizen of the country would feel 

 a benefit from the development of this vast 

 area; the factories of New Knulanti, as 

 well as the great plants of the middle; West, 

 would all receive their shar of the busi- 

 ness, and all this at a cst to the govern- 

 ment of not one cent, but the temporary 

 advancement, of mone\. to be paid back by 

 those benefited. 



"The upbuilding of greater Chicago de- 

 pends in a great measure on the adoption 

 of this government policy. You have been 

 identified with all Western interests; you 

 have put your earnings into the develop- 

 ment of the West. Thus you are part and 

 parcel of us in this undertaking of encour- 

 aging government aid, and we need you and 

 we want you. 



''Nothing seems too great for Chicago to 



A Good Medium. 



undertake. A people wno can make a 

 drinking fountain of the Chicago River and 

 Btart what will undoubtedly become a great 

 waterway from the lakes to the Atlantic 

 certainly could not fail 3r fall down on such 

 a simple proposition as irrigating 100,000,- 

 000 acres of lafid. 



"Render this land tillable, and every one 

 of the 100.000,000 acres will be settled 

 upon and improved by the homeseeker. 

 Towns and cities will spring up, the wealth 

 of our nation increase, and what is greater 

 and better than all, there will be an oppor- 

 tunity giv.en for the better development of 

 the typical American citizen, one who 

 breatht-s free air Jon' his own ground." 



Appreciation is always 

 gratifying and is the 

 more pleasing when merited. The IRRI- 

 GATION AGE takes pardonable pride in 

 presenting some interesting testimony as 

 to its influence on home seekers offered 

 by an enterprising firm in a bustling north 

 Georgia city. 



The correspondence which speaks for 

 itself is here presented: 



TALLAPOOSA, GA., March 12, 1902. 

 THK IRRIGATION AGE, 

 112 Dearborn St., 

 Chicago. 



GENTLEMEN: 



The page advertisement of our business, 

 prepared by you, is certainly a stunner, 

 and we expect to get some good results 

 from it. We have already received a good 

 many inquiries, and you may be sure we 

 are highly pleased with the IRRIGATION 

 AK as a land advertising medium. 



Thanking you for your attention, we are 



Yours very truly, 



The Greeley Land and Promotion Co. 

 By G. M. Greeley. President. 



The Greeley correspondence is suggest- 

 ive. It calls attention to the possible ad- 

 vantages of striking a new trail. It pro- 

 poses the benefits of innovation. The 

 (Ireeley Co., a Georgia organization, 

 makes its entei pri.-ing announcement with 

 true southern courage to a strange audi- 

 ence, through an unaccustomed medium, 

 and with no special interest in irrigation 



