The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-20
PRESIDENT
IN CARSON
Addressed an Immense Crowd
in the Capital City Yester-
day Morning
TALKED STATES INTERESTS
The Chief Executives Views on
Irrigation and Forestry
Set Forth

0ONeIuOT sparks introduced PreS1-
dent Roosevelt at Carson yesterday
morning. After a few remarks In
pleasant vein. the president launched
forth into a characteristic speech,
which the Carson News published in
full, and from which we take the fol-
lowing extract:
Il want to say one special word
today. here in Carson City, on SUBJ
ject in which all of our people from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. should
take an interest; which affects in
special way the people of the states
of the great plains and mountains,
and it affects no state more than it
does Nevada. The question is one
of irrigation. tApplause.) Now, as
say, l do not regard that as in any
way merely a question of the Rocky
Mountain states, or of the Great Plain
states, because anything which tends
for the well-being of any portion of
the Union is therefore for the real
well-being of all of it. (Applause.)
And it was for this reason that l felt
warranted to the people of the sea-
bordered states on the Atlantic, to
the people of the states of the Great
Lakes and to the Mississippi valley,
to say, that 1t was their duty to help
in bringing out a scheme of national
irrigation, .ecause the interests Of
any part of the country is the inter-
est of all. and no man is really
good American who fails to grasp that
fact (Applause)
Now, the national government is
still, as you all well know-but as
many fasteners do not know-the
great landowner in the western states
and among all of those states Nevada
holds the greatest proportion Of va
cant public lands. and the need of
Nevada for federal assistance was
one of the strongest arguments used
in the discussion which proceeded
the passage of the reclamation act on
June 2. 1902-the irrigation act of a
year ago. The great extent of va
cant lands in the state, and the fact
tnat it's water supply came chiefly
from springs arising in the adjoining
state of California and the over
whelming difficulties which, for those
and other reasons, prevented the peo-
ple of Nevada from efficiently acting
in their own behalf, made. in my
Judgment. and it proved, in the judg-
ment of congress, federal interference
absolutely imperative, and 1t is
matter for the strongest congratula-
ton to Nevada, that the secretary OF
the interior. guided in his choice.
wholly by actual conditions on tle
ground, has been led to undertake to
test one of the five sets of works
which have first been undertaken here,
in Nevada, particularly in Reno, on
the Truckee river. and is one of the
essential projects for starting and
testing the strength and workings of
the law.
Extensive surveys have already
been made and the projects for the
water storage and water diversion,
are at a point which warrants our be-
lief that immediate action Is in sight.
Now there are as do not have to tell
you (but as l have to tell the people
who live elsewhere) there are vast
tracts of unsettled land, still In the
ownership of the general government.
here in Nevada and elsewhere, which
the Reclamation Act will bring the
flood waters that now actually go to
waste. For Nevada. most, not all OF
these waters originate In the hign
mountains lying in sight of Reno,
largely lust across the state line in
California. Some of these mountains
have been included in the forest re-
serves, and your interests and the IN
terests of the irrigators of California,
imperatively demand the extension OF
the forest reserve system so that the
source Of supply for the great reser-
voirs and irrigation woks may be
safe from fire. from over-grazing, and
from destructive numbering. l want
you to pay attention to what | say
when | say destructive numbering.
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