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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BUSINESS MEN MUST AID IRRIGATORS 



(Continued from Page 206.) 



This is a problem of neighborhood cooperation. 

 It is a problem with which the farmer in the older 

 settled states has had very little to do. Its first 

 principles were solved in suffering and sorrow long 

 ago. It is the problem that first wrecked Kansas. 

 It is one that the farmer himself has never solved 

 and for years to come will never solve. He goes 

 down before it every time, until finally it solves 

 itself; but at a fearful cost to the individuals who 

 have gradually worn it out with their lives and 

 with their wives and families. 



This is a business problem purely and must 

 be solved by business men. The agricultural and 

 irrigation problems are more than sufficient to 

 absorb all the time, energy and brains of the farmer 

 in a strange land. If he is to succeed someone must 

 help him to get every dollar out of his produce 

 that it is worth. Is this done? 



Has he not rather been exploited all along the 

 line? Have we not permitted, and even encour- 

 aged, fearfully expensive methods of immigration 

 work under which he has often had to pay a ruin- 

 ous cost for a big bunch of false expectations, and 

 started in his new home doomed to a feeling of 

 despair as soon as he realizes the actual facts? 



How many of our business communities help 

 him to hold his crops off a glutted market? 



Have we business men not safely reaped large 

 benefits from all expenditure for irrigation, whether 

 wise or foolish, and from all the labors and invest- 

 ments of the farmers, whether productive or not to 

 them, and have we shared commensurately, or in 

 most instances at all, in the burdens or the risk? 



Neighborhood cooperation for the solution of 

 the farmers' problems must be the foundation of all 

 permanent success in our irrigation districts. It 

 must begin with seeing that he buys his land at a 

 fair value, with a fairly comprehensive appreciation 

 of the problems he has to face, and a reasonably safe 

 relation between the size and price of his farm and 

 his' own working capital. It must make him feel 

 that his success is the chief aim of his new com- 

 munity. It must end with assuring him adequate 

 returns compared with other producers and com- 

 petitors on the open markets. 



This, complete cooperation can be worked out 

 only by the business men of each locality contribut- 

 ing a portion of their time and their knowledge to 

 the common good. 



The financial returns of such cooperation will 

 remove it far from the region of gratuitous help, or 

 inequality of labor, and will soon prove it to be the 

 most profitable investment of time, and even of 

 capital where such is needed, that the business 

 community can make. 



It is the sure and short road to prosperity for 

 the west. 



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