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That the value of the irrigated farm and the security of 

 the home thereon erected are dependent upon public control 

 of the water supply and the prevention of water becoming a 

 speculative commodity. 



That the water of all streams should forever remain public 

 property, and that the right to its use should inhere, not 

 in the individual or the ditch, but in the land reclaimed. 



That we urge the adoption of a s^'stem of harmonious irri- 

 gation laws in all arid and semi-arid States and Territories, 

 under which the right to use the water for irrigation shall 

 rest in the user and become api)urtenant to the land irrigated, 

 and beneficial use be the measure of the right. 



That we commend the investigation of the problems of 

 irrigated agriculture and the efforts to promote its success 

 now being made by the Office of Experiment Stations, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and favor liberal appro- 

 priations for their continuance. 



That the Farmers' National Congress, assembled at Colo- 

 rado Springs, reaffirms the action taken by it at Boston in 

 1899, viz., that as agriculturists we use our best endeavors 

 to make the Pan-American Exposition, to be held at Bufialo, 

 N. Y., 1901, fully illustrative of the resources of every Com- 

 monwealth in the United States, and that we co-operate with 

 the various officials of the exposition to make it the success 

 the great undertaking deserves. 



That Congress should clothe the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission with power to enforce the decisions of said 

 commission. 



R. G. F. CANDAGE, 



For the Delegates. 

 Boston, Dec. 20, 1900. 



