The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-15
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
WESTERN KANSAS WANTS MORE WATER

WESTERN KANSAS WANTS MORE WATER.
Windmls artesian wells and a limited number OF
ponds and bitches having the fact that the
plains of be quickly converted from
condition of sterty to of wonderful fertility
simply by the application given additional cent OF
water than that furnished by average annual precp
tation to her soils has awakened widespread interest
in and that section in the past few years with
pulveruen frabe SOIL rich in calcareous elements
and with genial climate of almost eternal sunshine and
softly tempered Winds climate idealstic and heahful
for life found that the only thing lack
ing conversion OF those endless pastures OF short
grass productive fields of profitable crops was
minimum addition of water to the maximum annual rain
fall Congress- which had for almost century gone on
annually approprating millions for the water interests
of the east for fresh and inets and for
salt water ports and navy, from all of which no i'm
mediate or definite returns could be realized still
NAMED increduous whenever the west asked
for small concession interest that insured tang
BE and profitable returns history of agriculture
was epitomized and statistical proofs were compiled
covering all time from Egyptian the Nile down
to the of the Mexican the Rio Grande in vain
tc convince seaboard majority that there
was millions in irrigation with the accession of the
great middle power confronted by the fact that
the mountain the Great Salt Lake vales
had been into wonderfully productive agrcu
tural area solely through the of irrigation
that southern California by the agency, through
individual corporate enterprise had been rendered
paradise of bloom and fruit cereals and that the
brush slopes and mesas Of Colorado by the appca
ton of waters through bitches rivalng in product
iveness eastern Kansas Missouri, and
force of the experience and convictions president
and measured all that full ditch meant
for an arid area congress has finally
slider the situation
all these years the great middle west from whose
products largely the wealth and prosperity of the
country considered whole, has gone uncomplan
y putting up the improvement of eastern
harbors and for increasing the
navy in the absence of adequate recognition of that
middle VESTS interests claims demands. Hereafter
the west will not be found in the attitude of suppant
vanly implorng Her people will demand and the de-
will needed otherwise the odtime enormous
expenditures for the east will cut by defeat of
appropriation bills. The will have show for its
white alley have requisite recognition of its
forna now rubs the ten millions of daars mark annually
cereals nearly much. But for irrigation Colo
RADIO Arizona New Mexico Utah and Wyoming could
absolutely showing agricultualy horticultur
ally worth mentioning
AS asserted in the opening sentence of this editorial
the puverulent friable soil of Kansas
needs but the addition of extra supply of water to
insure such wealth of products astound the mex
perienced adpose alfalfa pastures sugar
of its beet fields and the fruits of its orchards when
once bordered by irrgatng ditch revelations
the way wealth. and along the lines of prosperity. To
present limited irrigated acreage millions
can and will added, by systematic scientific meth
DDS, made by the federal government and in the
future Kansas with its irrigated supple
mented by its natural pasturage will be rivaing
Kansas profitable productiveness the while exceing
the world in its healthfu superiority and climatic ad
vanages And the addition of stored waters only
crops, fourishing growth trees and
saturated soil but because result these com
bined through evaporation a humid atmosphere
frequent dews and increased RAINFALL in short
marked climatic change such has to this sec
ton of southwest Kansas through cultivation and tree
growing, within the last twenty-five years
The Eagle bespeaks for the irrigation convention |
which Garden City tomorrow an earnest har-
monious and profitable interchange of thought
perience coupled with the hope that will fail
resolving and demanding in the of the west
PROBABLY WRONG INTERPRETATION.
1t is stated by of the Kansas papers that the