The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-23
GREAT and GROWING WEST
Irrigation Will Change Deserts 10 Gardens and
Provide Lands for Millions of Homes
ROOSEvELT'S STRONG, FRIENDLY HAND
4 Policy that increases the Sum Of Human
Happiness and EnIarges and Strength
ems the Republic

country abounds in mountains. plains
and valleys. 1t is here that the govern
mcnt proposes to apply the workings of
the National Irrigation Act and to re-
claim all of the arid land which NAV
be ascertaincd to be ara bic and which
is found to be susceptible of reclama-
ton by the amount of water available
Government experts estimate that the
present amount Of land which may be
irrigated is about one hundred million
acres. This can be reclaimed by apply
ing the amount of water now available.
direct. 1t is also estimated that after
irrigation has been applied to the soil
Tor three or four years, Il less quantity
or water is necessary and hence an adj
ditlonal area of perhaps fifty millions
acres more may possibly be added to the
reclamation area
Nature Did the Needful.
Nature seems to have employed every
resource at its command to make the
mountain and plain region the most fav-
ored portion of the carth's surface for
the habitation of man. This section will
one day be the seat of empire of the
United States and, consequently, the
world. For distance of more than a
thousand miles there are successive
chains of mountains, in general course
running north and south and on parallel
lines, with numerous valleys occupying
the immediate ground.
Bach vollev lorno an sr,ou hos -.
stream, carrying, with rapid fall the
toins Tho Grades in oanor.I foron tho
onerotion Of ;rr;rotinr o,n,Is ,,,b;nh
take tho woter rron, stroo ms ,rd 40 WY,
if mr. n moderate FAN 70 ,;nos ,horo
tho cultivated ]and A. tho ,n,,n so,
son advances tho rainfall dooro,sas +ho
crons mood more and n,oro ,otnr ,,,hiah
is furnishad ,ntomoticaIl,, NV tho rr.dnni
increase of the Temperature along md
up the mountain side, reaching the light
est deposit of snow first, and then. during
the later and hotter months, drawing
upon the reserve OF bhe deeper and less
easier melted ice at the higher attitudes.
Fertility of Arid Soil.
1r,d. 49,
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havo hoa, p'",. iDus ~ eas'ei, WINS soils
n1 n.;nfou m;s 49,, lli.I .i.e sea neie
M ln,an $3.50 ane pi"ip' ioou lcni,lls
that s a., anin ,en. ai''s ses VI soiis sno"
,n Wv l''i w.. a.elase .nteI tiiiles
ro,;a 80 ea,s'.ta -: ,'e' "s iiiuoh I ma l:'
s'i 4ha "'i h, iGai Iee 'iiii,s as ien nm
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r;ah ooMrtr,, M 80 ~ 80
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T1nivers;tv If Ar;vono ,,,o,,n+oa ~
500 Ten ,cres nndor irr;got;on .rar,
400 hattnr ratnrns tbon raO.onra orons i,
the usuol wav NNp-' "
T, +ho.o aa,,,,,,,,';.;a 80 ~,
,,.,,;at, ~. Ian a. :ne VS. We:
~, .lsn mase ~. 4 eieateu ny ailisu'lol,
.ne u'ei"se sieiu " Mneal' potatoes anu
sn - ui,s "a eaeeeqs tn'l W uie pes!
l"' .iins uisliic. AZ iowa OF missouri
", ~ 'ie US ,e, parl VI tne M!ssissippl ' a.
i.! 'nousi eoiip'ra'i.eiy reilote
lioiii lhe Mofiu ilarhets Ior prooucts'
a a., acre u lanu unuer water rights IN
Tue very neaN Oh the ara region, wall
coih,ilahu lilsher price Ihah an acre III
Tue huliilu N1!ssisslppl talies. Inc farm
ers nave learned that 81 acres, well TILL
eu' VIII sleid more pront than 4Uo acres
larniea ~ cne olo' naphazard way. In
tehs,Ve farming ana larger profits from
smaller farms are making closely settled
communltes' estanlshing nearby neigh.
nors, Schools cnurches and lbranes, and
the asoiatlon OF old farm life no longer
eSlsts. Inc farmer makes more money,
aho 1he deadly monotony OF life does
not arve ms children from home, or
ms wire 70 the insane asylum.
Roosevelt 1mmortalized.