Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-21
CARTER ON IRRIGATION.

The state of Montana in common with other western states must depend
upon irrigation for her prosperity n if full development is to be
reached all thu waters Of her various iversm ustb be utilized flood waters a well
as he regular flow during the irrigation period. How are these nood waters to
reservoirs Private capital doubtless o some extent. but nevert to the full ca
naciy of the hoW In his connection the work O. Thomas H.. Carter IN the
United Statesse m in support of rational aid to irrigation, ommend itself
generally to the people of his state hi the west Im Carter has advocate
in spason and out that it is III duty of the national vernme to buld a sys-
TEN If storage eervors fur all the arid west No MAJ ever. made a more de-
terniDed N brilliant fight han he in the lasts enat fr federal storage.
If it is admitted hat Montana needs government help in building reser-
yors and therefore representative in congress alive to the irrigation prob
lem it nus be conceded tina Senator Carriers ALREADY valuable experience at
Washington and acauaintanceshdp with public men,. together with hist technical
champions OF thiss system or irrigation upo when Montana must, uepennddI or
her future evelopment If Senator Carter oulda lid in accomplishing federal
storage of waters for Montana he would d. more to develop n enrchh lis state
than anything which has ever been accomplished yet lot excluding her I'd
congress; he is now a champion of irrigation: and that majority of the
senate which voted las session in favor of the national irrigation endme
vii expect him n Senator Warren Of Wyoming. to lead The fight in future
sessions until The west ges its justa and fair share o appropriation for this
muchn needed n desirable internal Improvement
Senators Carter and Warren during the closing days o last congress. held
he river N harbor bill which carried an item for the commencement of this
work in III follows of heir hands, while the senate n the house looked on in
feyersh anXieyt to see if the entire bill would be defeated. 1t coua hav been
defeated with It's 0WSON appropriation in these las hour o the limited short
session of congress-. an possibly would have been, but for the fact hat the
holding IN of this bill would hay killed h laval appropriation bill n other
immmtant n necessary measure which would have required the calling of
a extra session n this neither Carter MOI Warren oud DO realizing thai
such action would deeply injure the cause Of irrigation in the east
Ga ter is heart and sou for federal irrigation n evetopne for the
en Or natnnal problem holds asata among the councils of any party;
LET it be understood and distinctly 90" out his word before the
senate last winter when the appropriation for. storage reservoirs. vas being
considered. that thisi is the entering wedge; that this is nj nesinnln OF a
iDwer Mississippi valley during the period Of floods and will incidentally csuse
+h""nsonds mon thousands If fertile field m happy homes to- De bnti in places
hat are nW wastes along the slopes Of tbs Rocky ountainS' -GeofSe T.. Nit
hell Secretary National Irrigation Association