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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



vestor and the farmer can make money in the South- men are taking the place of the slow-going manana 



west, but it is a place for the man with brains and fer- people who inherited the land, there are unlimited op- 



tility of resource. If one thinks it late in the day for portunities for the man of energy and thrift. Scientific 



opportunity, he is mistaken, and does not at all see irrigation, involving scientific agriculture, is rapidly 



Irrigation Scenes in the West Reclamation Service Men Testing the Waters of Cherry Creek, Salt 



River Project, Arizona. 







the promise and potency of this great irrigation move- changing title deeds, and in the endless shuffle for place 



ment. "The West," the historian, Bryce, said, "is the on the planet, the man who can do things is coming to 



most American part of America," and because this is the front here as elsewhere, 

 rapidly becoming true of the Southwest, and progressive 



