CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-11-03
ROOSEvELT'S FRIENDSHIP FOR THE WEST
Manner of Determining Reservoir Sites and How
Organized Effort Secures the Highest Eff
ciency-Gmpses Of the Future
of "Arid America"


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ens,neelihs prOoieins Oh Tue reclamation
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ior as"cupurai purposes' mus ohe
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ni,u kho"ieuse OF geoiogicai principles
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| underground.
Some Tedious Work for Uncle Fam.
The easily available waters Of the
arid region have in many instances been
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enterprises, leaving for the government
only the large, difficult or involved pro-
Jects. 1t IS not possible anywhere to
hnd ideal conditions. and although far
reaching results are to be accomplished,
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National Irrigation for Private Lands.
As stated, Uncle Sam still owns from
one-half to nine-tenths of the area of
each of the Western States and terri
tories affected by President Roosevelt's
National Irrigation Act. He is the big
land owner and will always remain the
| proprietor of the great mountain areas
covered mainly with trees. and from
which come the waters essential to the
life OF agriculture. Much of the best
land in the valleys has already passed
into private ownership and along almost
every stream is a continuous succession
of claims taken up under the Homestead
or Desert Land law.
The public land as a rule, is the bench
land adjacent to the valley. Nearly every
| scheme for the reclamation of govern
ment land must of necessity involve the
| irrigation of land now in priyate own
ership. The provisions of the law are
such that the land owned by individuals
can be irrigated in small tracts not to
exceed l6o acres. that being the amount
| niiowed Tor each individual. The law
has been so framed as to require con
tnnous residence on and cultivation OF
the land; whether originally in private
or public ownership, the chief purpose
being, of course, to bring about imme-
diately a dense settlement in small, self
sustaining farms.
The projects already agreed upon EN-
brace all extremes from those where
nearly all of the land is in public own
| ership, to those where most OF the land
is at present owned by individuals In
the latter case the lands are now for the
most part vacant, cultivation having been
attempted with an inadequate supply