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5, 2. Water When and‘ Where You Want
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had increased the value of the 1.000.-
000 acres in other projects by $100
per acre. or 8100.000.000. In tho
cities. towns and villages the increased
land values was easily $100,000,000.
This made a. grand total of 8556.000.-
000 added to land values. due to thiL
important work."
The Flathead valley. in Montana
sflords a typical example of what ha
been nxomplished. A few years ago
lying away from, the foothills was for
the most drab and dead, excepting in
the great body of agricultural land
isolated cases in which an old timer's
“y sou’l’k‘ C' “CLOUD ' irrigation ditch had given a touch of
_, - : aw important In step forward in the history of civiliza- green. This great body or land await-
" who” you 8‘0 to tion. lie knew what irrigntion, with ed ‘h" ”mm“ ‘3‘ a” “we‘mafi‘m
; iii] the man who its water- control. could do and was
Service. with its magic wand, to trans.
form it into green fields of alfalfa.
timothy and clover. pastures filled
with cattle and hogs for mile after
mile. thousands of acres dotting the
valley like an immense checkerboard.
ready to welcome the newcoming set.-
tler and to be awakened into a. Vast
reclaimed was satisfactorily housing ocean of fruitful Sreen. Today tbil
and giving profitable employment to] dream is real zed
400 000 people This achievement is Good Roads Helped
'complete reversal of the usual iawa i ething not to be measured in dollars well “"9de “9 bv Arthur P ”3”“! Good roads have played their full
‘9 ‘hmw'd m“ go.ernin8 farm v.a.lues The sooner ‘3’ “new“ hemgee’ “bee ‘0 r°"”'°e me how 500” ”1“" and ”‘9” {ameeecs and cents. but none the less exprcs—eunm recently director and chief en- share in the development of thee.
i ”9 anticipated U * allowance of ’5‘" to be given his would crumble in“) dust under the alvo of 11.3 satisfaction which the glrieer ol‘ the Reclamation Service lands. As one Idaho settler expresses
'ei them before! m newcomer learns from this ex- crO‘s s o r . e .1] . « Lition , "Measured by the yardstick ol’ the
pcrience and applies it to his own en— .4. > ”1’9059 ”hr? are signs 0 b.lrn.ng bun, just as d H31“ . . poo: )le ot’ the l'in ted S: 3‘. es may takei .. ..
7‘e 11”" words e rirou h: anl rain ‘sx coded. You Will ke it crumlwlln . and how soon LhPll‘ ‘ W financier said \11' Davis. the refillltli
_ terpriss. the better are his chances g e ‘ “ e 8' n Le“ Se-“e ‘ 01 ‘ amam’“ f th R oh 9: S ”C ctivities
iwitwu- ma.- hneior successful irrigation {arming find it (1.:Il'ilt to picture him Sa)lnl::\)|lsl would be blown away by the The. we”. 1933 ma.l;s the twenty- 0 e e ‘meL-m‘ 9; ‘3 ‘1 fetended ‘to wi‘hln two miles of the
m-«mr do, at ‘ Man} . man has passed up his chance to he 5 fan: i\:e$:1nie hot hrcczcs that destroyed lll‘u' ;. of the creation 0 the are 0; great “inherent. hs a creator od Idaho state 33mm, at Boise. There
4” m” were" u to succeed by insisting on having 'hee “Rme‘e’” lil me” ‘0 “em 0" ”‘0 ee‘eef‘“ ““0"“ 3‘ ”09 e”"’d“‘“e0eee :4 rvlzc, to mice over the wealt d [‘6‘ l "'6‘: ":1 ‘ : nanotgaent- were no highways All roads rsn
'eel th‘v find that Finest soil he could locate. on'y to ruin " on: and give the crops 3 good pinto: m which today rich in: '~'. and .‘ni‘i relazed activi- the in i\i “3 S 3- ° 3 ‘90“ 3‘ r is across count ry, and were mere tracks
pi‘ smvklnx room>dolng for the farmers of the West.
1 1:1zii-runtincntal and his attitude towards eastern lgno-j
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unwilling. To me it
lirm:::ht up on.
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escornful.
Based On Experience e
Thnt the western man's statements
ore true is borne out by the exper-
ence of countless farmers throughout
gihe irrigated regions of the United
iStntes In those regions there is n.——-4~- 44 ~57-
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’7” O/PflQ’GZ'GPPOX’Z' wwzud {or their labor and “kill. In
line latter phase may be found some-
"Previous to 1904 sagebrush extend-‘
; i» . . , . ,., .- . ., ., u ._ 1; : 1-41 m. 3‘ ort- .3 m, . eas in its principal ill-1k of home- mnk—e - ~. , a
‘ “ we“. “Ham“ find that Without water he was help- “O‘XF‘LK' . ‘ [1505‘er s cc? mmn‘tirgfb.‘ . 4.... 3'. ‘ 3"”7‘ 0‘ dam [mud-wing. Out of the uninhabited and al-'eh‘o}lg1] {hf sarcbrdsh. the‘ Width 0,;
. 1.- it h. or snuff less. \n-, well fin'! it p 15i1.ly d.l.. :iit to «.. the ch. ngis “.uJ. , k in i. ,, m; and the other- It tremble“ dog". it has carved ethe .read 0. a wagon. When a trac
‘e‘ in the watcr. . lmsirme bin. 3 fll“'.“~ .3021: so In 3‘“ ‘Enn q-Crk ha-.e,m°“ 'f ” “ ‘ " _‘ :bernme impassable because of dust 01'
()no of the beauties of irrigation is _ .- .s . , ,a enmire of nomrlv two million acres ,
i"'1w‘-ene3 on the _ , , tho same VA to 3‘ “fitters! fa s iho rim- n.” 'ltinn r n: 41.x “my h :lve taluo of= ' n f - , , . 'Vmud. another was attempted along-
NH] if the water that the. farmer has water when he 'nnno! “1”". h _ .1” n hm: ‘Hd I rm: .14; h” ‘ Ivfl m :hi- :‘~~ u m: onal emeh intenslw-ly cultivated and pro ”engeside. Finally construct'on of irriga-
., :ggdlh'ie’tlcgndli :ttpg'loy izhdezljxegizd h‘jn «,‘i'ii::n":' r: ~i~r~ll Orr v: \\"=:ithi-r in the muni- d .1? :w hm; ecu rd iEttrizse-exi‘s 19.0; the Service crops whose Emma] Ever?” 12“ Ch reéwtlon canals and structures was inaug—
H , ~‘i - ~ I N . ‘ _. , , . ., , 1 e . e; ' . 'turns per acre are 3.011: on) e 05 ,
.\ MT" Tum crnps nre a law unto themselves. .1"! or 1 _y. in tho ”it n. in the p» l of .i. n at. in: \.. . . M J repent . uratcd. For this work water had to
_ I. - -4 '~ e' " “no rest 0! the countr".
. « :' . l 1 1‘1) ‘ ' .’ :' . i “in tho n'itf ital v. M‘. . q _ .OI‘ u .v ‘ e v ‘ S s (0 ca
D." was: an earnest When they call {or water it is given 'h' bun 1" ”e "' no“ “ m: ‘ ‘ , ml the irr.ga ibe haul d 0 er the e road r mD
"' “" ‘e' 5 "in I“- ‘. ~‘ 1 ‘ a .. . _ How Land Values }{:1\'(‘ Grown i ~ “ _t .K n '
I: we.“ carved mom in the quantities they "(Nut when“) h “H! h my a” b ‘1 revs-fern rt“ “2-4 Enemy)” 1' . "~11? Him-ease in land values have: 91:11:39”:izhztifgggemgfsesei:z:
‘ ”N ““1 into his When they demand '1 dry SD?” they . “m M ' ~ 1- :;~:r.; leifltiim 1-. \v ’1‘ 1st .-;\.J‘w-c i1 ‘Pch—ib ‘ -fi0r'n.0'i; ln l‘, ‘1" the ‘begin- wee-ntnatnize with the early settlers who ‘
I' “'31! not lonzw-nn have it with similar case. in n. 9 6““ 7"“ “ “-1 ”h” ‘ V \‘ei4~ .&,0- ii» i)\-: con .i' (L Yer.“ ‘H .{EWIHO'I {helilgdxggfi to “a ‘10 ha“! water deu-
e . , .3 ~ - v .4 .. l "n ‘ v n‘ h 13qu ‘3“ ”‘4 ‘ ' 5- e ' .;-:!n;; a sup- mint: 0. :0 exit . :a t. l. 4 rs .
e. I(mi‘v In” 'Uh egtzrsrxiniinXOETYxtyhesx;b{;efr;oigl952! :2: 1nd,“: tnqi‘llfirh ‘i’ mine of vhf \f-ev‘am] 3”“ "4‘97“: 3'. " 2 'e e ’ \‘t nor to a :ivm‘nge value (if 1'39 desert lands inethe land of brush and rock. and
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. ’ 1'71 hrnad we.t-}oyportunwiv for changing, In a oozen— Smiilzwesi has it on elm :\\‘wnIy-une ' . enter proj—lthe p.o_ierts did n.t PACLOd 5:0 per_plant crops which were eaten by the
‘14: 1 um} to geIV‘lry (if tint Character 1“ (‘flhpr men. ~4:-~r m5 of the l’ . '1"on “t'rv‘ho warre. The total value of the, l.i30.000._i:irk rabbits as soon as the vegetation ’
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i it“ «mu wish ‘ «r i! does not rain. and the crops must The results nro w: ‘l on the- r. r: wcr l'xlnz§ac‘ros’ in the». (:7.el‘..'l.9lé‘ 'Drojec.s. sappenred sboxe‘ ground. 1 :ownhinis
- t - i t I‘lflelltko the weather as it comm Too of the i'mmirr. i“‘li ornrs Hr") me w‘:f!d§;?h(’r(‘;nre did not chood .ll.800.000. are different. Iodcrn hg ways pe. -
“Wen-”mm. n o A l ch rain 0} HM at the wrovie "me In" 4 v r 2mm: rnzt- new vxr. in His The’According to figures prepared some mit the project manager to be in his
N “we” on otmor- mu 0 . hd a as too l‘l‘ttloe‘nol‘wn ' tr r‘v» x- int "rnt" im- '- . .‘nrl villagesetime since the Government irrigation ofi'lce during the morning and to visit
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empire 3 dme - IIZkttlng r 3' . Ifnitmi State-z is full or zeinos‘s in wit “.1 of :1 wt: . i' ‘i ‘ use , t; . 5, ‘n‘. number oi'jot the project lands $300 per acre.;‘most distant parts of the project. to-
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