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| mcntary partial, fragmcntary. when compared
with the irrigation which yet shall be.
am confident that there are points on the
Carson tho Humboldt. the Weber. the South Platte,
the Cache-lePoudrc. aud many less noted streams
which third the central plateau of our continent
where an expenditure Of $4,000 to $4,000 may be
iudicously made in DAM locks aud canals. for the
purposes of irrigation and milling combined. with
moral certainty of realizing fifty per cent annually
on the outlay with steady increase IN the value OF
the property. If my eye did not deceive me, there
is one point oD the Carson where dam that need
not cost $4,000 would irrigate one hundred square
miles of rich plain which, when saw 1t eleven years
ago, grew nought but the worthless shrubs OF the
desert simply because nothing else could endure the
intense, abiding drouth of each Nevada Summer
Such palpable invitations to limit cannot remain
forever unimprOycd.
In regions like this. where Summer rains are the
rule rather than the exception. tho need of irrigation
is not so palpabc since we do or may decent
average crops in its absence. Yet there Il no farm
IN onr country that would not yield considerably
grain and more grass more fruit and more veg
cablcs, If its owner had water at command which
he could apply at pleasure and any extent he Should
deem requisite Most men, thus empowered, would
at first rTigatc too often and TOO copousy; but eX-
perencc would soon temper their zeal. and teach
them
"Thc precious art OF Not too much"
and they would thenCcorh be careful to give their
soil drink yet not drown it.
Whoever lives beyond the close of this century,
and shall then traverse prairie States will see
them whitencd ut intervals by the broad sails of
wndmills erected over wells. whence every gale or
breeze will be employed in pumping water into
ponds or reservoirs so located that water may he
drawn thcTefrom at will and dilluscd in gentle
streamlcs over the surrounding fields to invigorate
and impcl their growing crops And, when all has
been done that this paper family foreshadows, our
people will have barely Indicated, not by any means
exhausted the bcIeGccnt possibilities OF Irrigation.
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