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efforts. Success for one is success for both, while failure for one 

 is failure for both. Let another step be taken. Allow the 

 criminal waste of the valuable water power of the State to go no 

 further. Nothing has been done, no progress has been made and 

 no move forward can be made along the old lines — if it could have 

 been it would have been. 



The reports on this subject, after the first ones on both sides, 

 seem very much like the rethreshing of old straw. 



PATRICK E. McCABE 



Conservation Commissioner 



