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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



August 



note that there is such thorough or- number of these properties were origi- 

 ganization and unanimity of senti- nally Mexican grants, whose owners 

 ment in California that they are en- were, apparently, unwilling to sub- 

 abled to avail themselves of its privi- divide for the benefit of intending set- 

 leges, tiers. This condition, if not remedied, 

 During the lifetime of the state a would disqualify some of the most 







MR. RUFUS P. JENNINGS 



Executive Officer of the California Promotion Committee, and President of the River 

 Improvement and Drainage Association of California 



unique agricultural condition has pre- 

 vailed in California. Much of the best 

 agricultural land is held in huge 

 ranches, some of them embracing in 

 the neighborhood of 100,000 acres in 

 single holdings. By far the larger 



promising agricultural sections of Cal- 

 ifornia from taking advantage of the 

 provisions of the Reclamation Act. As 

 is generally known, the purpose of the 

 government in constructing great stor- 

 age and diversion dams and in build- 



