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ical condition in the soil without manure; that is, if you maintain that 

 the soil will keep responding and yielding crops without being absolutely 

 renewed with humus?" 



PROF. CAMPBELL: "So far as we have gone, we have not dis- 

 covered any deterioration, where the work has been properly done, and 

 we have produced very large results. My idea is to keep on in this way 

 until you discover that it Is deteriorating. It may and it may not, I 

 couldn't answer the question definitely." 



GOV. BROOKS (presiding) : "If we have time later on, we will be 

 very glad to continue this discussion with Prof. Campbell. In this great 

 work in which we are all so vitally interested, it is possibly well for 

 up to pause a moment and listen to someone who has had years of ex- 

 perience reaching back to the days before some in this audience were 

 born, and it gives me much pleasure to introduce to you Hon. John 

 Henry Smith, who has devoted his life to development work in the west, 

 and who will address you." 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST. 



By Hon. John Henry Smith, of Salt Lake City, Utah. 



"Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a very great pleasure for me to be 

 in attendance on this third session of The Dry Farming Congress, hav~ 

 ing taken a most intense interest in the gatherings of the Trans- 

 Mississippi Congress, the Irrigation Congress, the cattle congresses, and 

 the good roads congresses, and several other congresses in our country. 



"The development of this western land has been a wonderful thing 

 to me, for I have seen its development from the tallow tip to the electric 

 Itght; from carrying our goods by ox teams and burrows to its being 

 transported by railroad, steam engine and electric car. I have had 

 pleasure in following its wonderful growth, and I know the possibilities 

 within the reach of every American boy and girl, who should become 

 impressed with that utterance given years ago by the editor of The 

 New York Tribune, Go West, young man, and grow up with the 

 country.' 



"The visits of the Catholic fathers among the native races of the 

 world, their heroic efforts looking to the development and uplift of that 

 class of people, and their researches and travels in the land, give a 

 place to them among the bravest and noblest among men who have 

 fought for the betterment of their kind. But from the days of John C. 

 Fremont when he made his wonderful trip across this land, visiting 

 every section of our country, going through to the Pacific coast, and en- 

 during the hardships incident to that trip, his visit to many sections of 

 the land shows the impression that was left by his work. As also, the 

 travels of Lewis and Clark, as they wended their way across this con- 

 tinent and found themselves in this western land in the most beautiful 

 section of this world of ours. Following in their wake were the people 

 of my own race, Brigham Young and his associates, among whom were 



