THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1904. 



No. 5. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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Nevada will have a great exhibit at the 

 Nevada World's Fair. In the Miners' Palace 



at St. Louis, there will be 118 varieties of ore shown 



and the mines from which it was taken, 

 its value, etc., will be given. One of the features of 

 this display will be the Yerington nugget, a 271- 

 pound lump of ruby silver that was taken from the 

 mine of Tonopah. Irrigation in Nevada will be 

 brought to the attention of the visitors through models 

 of the Wadsworth Canal, which has been built at a 

 cost of $1.000,000. Nevada's enterprise in this mat- 

 ter is highly praiseworthy, and other arid states will 

 no doubt make equally valuable and interesting ex- 

 hibits. 



The land-grabbing Octopus is spreading 

 No Danger the most alarming reports concerning the 

 of Shortage, rapid absorption of the public domain, 

 declaring that it will only be a few years 

 until the poor homeseeker will be unable to find a va- 

 cant spot big enough for a garden patch. The cry of 

 the Octopus is that it is working entirely in the in- 

 terest of the future generations, and for that reason 

 demands that all public lands be withdrawn from en- 

 try, except as it may be taken up under the general 

 homestead law. 



To show the fallacy of this position and that the 

 Octopus is trying to create a false alarm, it may be 

 stated that Uncle Sam still owns, exclusive of Alaska, 

 over 500,000,000 acres open to settlement. This does 

 not include about 60,000,000 acres in forest reserves 

 and 60,000,000 acres in Indian reservations outside of 

 Indian Territory. 



The territory still unoccupied and subject to set- 

 tlement is over five-eighths as large as the entire acre- 

 age disposed of under all laws since the foundation 

 of the Government. This is equal in area to the thir- 

 teen original States of the Union, and in addition Iowa, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas, Alabama, Mis- 

 souri, Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, West Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. 



Allowing for the depredations of timber thieves 

 and others, there will be plenty left. 



