Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-06-23
WHAT irrigation WILL Do
No Danger Of Harmful Competition
with the East in the Reclaiming
Of Waste Lands. u
Congressman Newlands Shows How
the Demand Of the Country Will
y Equal the Supply.
Cities and Eastern Communities Will
be Benefited by the Opening
of Arid Lands. a

be Benefited by the Opening
Of Arid Lands.
In his speech on the Hansbrough ir-
rigation bill, which has been signed
by the president, Hon Francis G. New
lands shows how the bill will be of
mutual benefit to the east and west,
when he says: Is "
Under this irrigation law, assum-
ing that the proceeds of the sales Of
the public lands reach only $4,000 600
annually, we will be able in ten years
to dispose of only about . ,O0O,O 600
acres, or about a one. Invent
part of the area, DISPOSED Of in the last
ten years. 1t should be, remembered
that the. cost, of each project is to be
reimbursed to the reclamation fund by
making eacn SETTLER pay his proper
tionate part of the cost in ten annual
installmenlts and before he receives his
title. The question, therefore, of the
irrigation development will depend
upon the sales of the land. If the
lands be sold it will Indicate that there
is a demand for them, and the money
will be forthcoming for new irrigation
work If the lands do not sell, it will
be an evidence that there is no need.
of pushing faster THE irrigation devel-
opment. :sHs 55
The fact is that the demand for pub
lie lands is now greater than the sup
ply. Heretofore the settlers in the
far west have usually come from the
states Immediately to the east of them.
The sons Of Ohio and Indiana settlers
have settled in Iowa, Kansas, and Ne
braska, and the sons of Kansas and
Nebraska settlers are now going still
farther in the west. Owing to the.
exhaustion of the lands in the humid
area, these farmers sons are now pro-
ceeding to Canada and taking up farms.
Secretary Wilson, in a recent address,
stated that the sons of Iowa farmers
purpose Of getting cheaper lands. Il
is estimated that during the last six
months 10000 men have gone to Cam
ada for this purpose, and the report Of
the Canadian commissioner on immi-
grafton states that it is confidently ex-l
pected that 100 0oO American settlers
mi II tlyo ,,,, a. h ;e, ;,
Canada. We are thus losing the Drawn
and the muscle which ought to be rtil-
lied in building up and extending this
great country.
While we are promoting immigra-
ton from the southern parts Of Eu-
rope we are losing the sons of our own
people, who, finding the area of settle
ment in ol1r own country contracted,
are now placing themselves under a
foreign ju1isdi iction.
..The people of the west are not look
ing to competition with the farm pro-
ducts of the east The products of
the 100000 acres OF the eastern land,
now under irrigation do not lower the
price of the eastern farm crops. The
things which California sends TO the
Atlantic seaboard are luxuries. She
could not possibly ship her wheat over
the long haul across the country and
compete with the wheat that passes
through the New York market She
sends, instead, oranges, lemons, fine
raisins, fancy prunes, fruits, wines,
etc, The market which California
finds for those products in New. York
state is a distinct gain to the New York
farmer. These products Of irrigation
are purchased by the Wealthier class,
and the money goes back to California
from whence 1t ediately comes
back to New York again to be expended
for the staple articles which California
buys from the east farning imple-
ments, cotton and Woolen fabrics. and
all the manufa actsred goods which are
made in New York factories. Those
factories furnish market fo1. the pro-
dues of the New York farmer.
..It I is an incontroye yertible fact that
! the prosperity of the west causes a re-
#fex agricultural prosperity in the agri-
culture Of the east. 4 Suppose the 600,
100000 acres of arid land west Of the;
one hundredth meridian and the in
sdustries which have arisen in connec-
u tion Herewith should be suddenly