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all cooperative proceeding, as perhaps some of 

 those who planned the restrictions intended that it 

 should. 



The present state of district enterprises is directly 

 interesting not only to land-owners who are per- 

 sonally engaged in building up large, productive and 

 praiseworthy social communities within their bor- 

 ders, but also to the multitude of individuals and 

 financial concerns which are investing in their securi- 

 ties in all parts of the country and beyond. District 

 organization seems clearly to be the agency through 

 which all earlier anticipations of broad irrigation 

 development for California will be attained. On the 

 basis of the broadest cooperation, not only of the 

 actual users of water among themselves, but of those 

 most directly concerned with the public, as repre- 

 sented by the state and national governments, and 

 with investors everywhere, California looks forward 

 not only to the reorganization of all old enterprises 

 which need extension adequately to serve their com- 

 munities but to the creation of new enterprises until 

 all available water is brought to the land that 

 needs it. The period of lessened activity during 

 the World War has been followed by an era of greater 

 energy than has ever been known hitherto. The State 

 is actively participating in irrigation development. 

 The law makes it the duty of the State Department 

 of Engineering to assist those contemplating the for- 

 mation of irrigation districts, and the same interest 

 is now being shown irrigation districts by the State 

 Water Commission, the agency in California which 



