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see a large portion of the arid lands of the West, to see 

 what was being done and what has been already accom- 

 plished through the agency of irrigation in the work of 

 irrigation. * * * The money value of the results 

 has reached figures that would stagger persons who have 

 not given this subject study and investigation." 



Coming from men accustomed to deal with hard 

 facts, divested of all sentiment, the opinions of these 

 newspaper men possess an intrinsic value no other set 

 of men could give the question of irrigation. The sub- 

 ject was somewhat cloudy to them, but seeing with their 

 own eyes tl-e magnificence of the great West, their pen- 



READY FOR THE REAPER. 

 Wheat field near Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Evidences multiplied as the newspaper men ad- cils moved with a common impulse to impart the truth 



vanced into the arid and reclaimed region, until Major to the world, and it will be many days before their 



Carson, speaking for his brethren, declared, referring to amazement and admiration will be spent. They dis- 



the national irrigation act : "In my judgment no act covered a new world, a vast fruitful empire, and they 



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"AND THE TASSELS ON THE CORN." 

 Snap shot near Agricultural College, Cache Valley, Utah. 



has ever been passed by Congress that will be so far- never tire of depicting its glories. They are advertising 

 reaching in its results, so beneficial to the nation and land schemes, for their impulses are patriotic, and they 

 which will do more to increase the astonishment of the 

 world at the power, the greatness and the resourceful- 



ness of the American people." 



rejoice at having seen the marvelous greatness of a 

 hitherto undreamed of empire, one unknown hitherto 

 to the people of the East. 



