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yet unredeemed that will some day be splendid irrigated land and bear 

 splendid crops. 



We learned today from the Dean of your Agricultural College that 

 Kansas has 50 percent of its lands under cultivation. We have less than 4 

 percent of our lands under cultivation, and even when our dry-farm lands 

 shall have been utilized, when our reclamation work shall have been com- 

 pleted, we shall have then only about 6 percent of our lands in cultivation. 



It is our purpose to utilize every advantage that we do have, to make 

 the best of the opportunities we have. It is our purpose, and we are suc- 

 ceeding in a marvelous degree, in making every small acreage take care of 

 a family. We believe that there has been great waste of the land. We be- 

 lieve that by intensive cultivation, utilizing the soil to the best possible 

 advantage, we may be able to make homes for the thousands of people 

 who are yet to come. We expect to conserve the fertility of our soil and 

 add to that fertility, so that the lands shall be made productive and people 

 enabled thereby to make their livelihood from the soil. 



We have in Utah some splendid resources besides the agriculture. 

 There is an immense mountain of copper, whch is taken up by steam 

 shovels, transferred to the cars and taken to the smelters. It is the great- 

 est copper mining plant in the world. As Governor Ammons has said, 

 they have in the State of Colorado immense coal deposits, so have we in 

 Utah. 



It is true we have not had a very great influx of population in that 

 state, but there is no division of feeling there. All of the people of that 

 state are working in perfect harmony, and we ask that the people give 

 Utah a fair chance to show what they can do, and we expect to take our 

 place side by side with the other states of the Union in the way of develop- 

 ment of the resources of our state. 



We have been very happy to meet with you in this convention — glad 

 to see this splendid exhibition of your products. We rejoice with you in the 

 prosperity that has come to this great Western country, and we expect 

 to join with you in any movement that will tend to develop this section of 

 the land. 



President Waters then introduced F. S. E. Amos, representing the Gov- 

 ernor of Oklahoma. 



Oklahoma 



MR. AMOS: 



Mr. President, Fellow-Governors, Ladies and Gentlemen: On account 

 of the slight indisposition on the part of our Lieutenant-Governor, our 

 real Governor was unable to be with you, although he had planned to be 

 present. He greatly enjoyed his stay at the Dry-Farming Congress in 

 Tulsa last year. All of us did, and I am sure if he had been permitted to 

 be present, he would have enjoyed this one even more so. His misfortune, 

 however, has been my good fortune, and I am glad to be with you. 



I have had considerable satisfaction and not a little amusement in 

 listening to the compliments pronounced on their native states by the 



