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not look good in an argument that would have to frighten 

 the reading public to be effective. 



However, he has indorsed the proposition that the coal 

 supply will give out some time or other. He might go 

 on and say that the sun's heat will gradually be dissipated 

 and that something will have to be "conserved" by us now 

 to keep posterity from freezing to death. He has. joined 

 hands with the "conservationists" in the cry that our water 

 power is to be monopolized and that it is liable to be used 

 to its full extent. The problem that the West has to deal 

 with relates to settlement. It is an effort to get lands 

 ready for the newcomer. It is difficult to keep the general 

 government from reserving everything that is necessary 

 for growth and development. 



The Director does not know evidently, that the moun- 

 tain states of the West have unlimited opportunity for 

 water power development. He does not seem to Tcnow 

 that the States and not the nation at large has control of 

 the waters of streams. He does not seem to know that 

 these States are better able to protect the public against 

 monopoly than is the general government. He does not 

 seem to know that many of the States have taken precau- 

 tions which will protect the public. His idea is not to 

 protect the public so much as it is to secure the adoption 

 of some law, rule or regulation which will enable the gen- 

 eral government to derive an income by taxing western 

 power development. This means that the local consumer 

 of the power must pay the tax. 



Recently our attention was called to an irrigation proj- 

 ect in Central Wyoming which has been fostered by the 

 State administration and development so directed that the 

 best kind of irrigation works will be constructed, the low- 

 est rates guaranteed for water rights and arrangements 

 made for the final ownership of the system by the water 

 users. In connection with this project it will be neces- 

 sary to store a large volume of water. A natural lake was 

 found to be available for this purpose. An application for 

 a right of way to use this lake for storing water for irriga- 

 tion was properly made. It finally came to the attention 

 of this director of the Geological Survey and he has writ- 

 ten the Commissioner of the General Land Office that he 

 would recommend that the application be suspended owing 

 to possible water power values. 



Think of this! Fully two thousand families can find 

 homes on the lands to be reclaimed. This means a pop- 

 ulation of from ten to one hundred thousand people. The 

 country cannot develop until agriculture is made possible. 

 Agriculture is impossible without irrigation and irrigation 

 is impossible without storage. There is no market for 

 power. People must be secured to use power before it 

 pays to install the necessary machinery and transmission 

 lines. Water power can be developed on every stream. 

 Monopoly is impossible and the end will never be reached 

 in water power development. Wyoming is the most progres- 

 sive State probably in the administration of streams. It is 

 twenty years in advance of the general government. It 

 does not advocate a special tax on those who use water 

 power, but it does stand for public control at all times for 

 the benefit of the public. 



Yet in face of these facts the Director of the Geologi- 

 cal Survey would kill a great development enterprise and 

 deprive two thousand families of an opportunity to secure 

 homes simply to carry out a new fad that the "conserva- 

 tionists" have preached through their press bureaus. We 

 have simply stated the facts and leave the conclusions to 

 the reader. 



THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION EXPOSITION. 



Here Will be Shown the Successes of Irrigation, Pumping, 



Its Accessories, Machinery, Drainage, and 



Irrigated Products. 



THE greatest irrigation exposition ever held in the 

 west will join hands with the Eighteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress in welcoming the world to Pueblo in 

 September. 



The dates of the exposition are September 19-October 1. 



The exposition will begin simultaneously with the 

 Colorado state fair, the latter lasting one week, or until 

 September 24. At that date, all irrigated products will 

 be transferred to the exposition, theretofore maintained in 

 behalf of pumping, machinery, drainage, irrigation de- 

 vices, etc., and the merged affair will continue the follow- 

 ing week, or during the irrigation congress. 



The exposition will be held on three sightly blocks 

 of land just across from the famed Mineral palace, and 

 handy to the congress. Mineral palace is set in beautiful 

 Mineral park, the most attractive spot wherein sessions 

 of the congress have yet been held, and the proximity 6f 

 the exposition grounds will lend especial interest. 



The exposition will consist of all kinds of irrigation 

 devices. There will be reservoirs, open ditches, pumps 

 and sumps, cemented laterals, subirrigation demonstra- 

 tions, weirs, systems of measurements, etc. There will be 

 large machinery, lecture tents for illustrated addresses, 

 literature tents where communities and companies will tell 

 of their advantages, and last but not least, all kinds of 

 irrigated products. 



The director of exhibits, Mr. L. M. Markham, a trained 

 engineer and a born executive, has for some time had his 

 office installed in the Central block, Pueblo, and is receiv- 

 ing orders for space and answering inquiries as to pos- 

 sible exhibits. 



The exposition promises to rank close up to the irri- 

 gation congress in interest. Manufacturers, engineers, 

 architects, practical irrigationists, and all classes inter- 

 ested, are vying with each other in their earnest endeavor 

 to make the exposition a finished thing, something that 

 will stand out clear and distinct in the minds of the visitors 

 when they shall have departed from Pueblo next fall. 



Strongly back of the exposition is not only the Eigh- 

 teenth National Irrigation Congress itself, the board of 

 control of which gave life to the exposition, but the en- 

 gineers and technical people. One foremost factor is the 

 Arkansas Valley Society of Arts and Sciences, the engi- 

 neers' society, as it is commonly called. This association 

 includes all the engineers of Pueblo and southern Colo- 

 rado, and of the Arkansas valley in Kansas. 



As to irrigated products, the fact that 25 Colorado 

 counties are now growing products especially to be exhi- 

 bited and are making liberal appropriations, insures the 

 success from that standpoint. The far-famed Arkansas 

 valley, the wonderfully productive Western Slope with its 

 magnificent fruit, the northern Colorado district with so 

 much to its credit, will all be there, and adjoining states 

 are desirous of making displays. A system of trophies and 

 prizes, diplomas and medals, has been worked out by the 

 director of exhibits and the very enthusiastic exhibits' 

 committee of the board of control, of which Mr. J. A. 

 Barclay is chairman, and will lend zest and spirit to the 

 displays. 



As to trophies, some splendid ones will be offered for 

 competition. Some will be loving cups, others of similar 

 design, all calculated to provoke the greatest rivalry be- 

 tween communities. Among those who are contributing 

 trophies are: William R. Hearst, United States Senator 

 Simon Guggenheim, Governor John F. Shafroth, Irriga- 

 tion Age, Ranch and Range, sugar companies, and public 

 spirited corporations and citizens. 



Many communities and counties are offering cash 

 prizes to their farmers who will grow the best displays of 

 beets, alfalfa, fruit, corn, wheat, vegetables, and other 

 products, under irrigation. In some communities, these 

 prizes in cash and in trophies, for local endeavor, will run 

 as high as $1,000. 



It is clear already that the marked success of the 

 National Irrigation Exposition is assured. 



