The Imperial press., 1904-11-19
LAND AND wATER-ONE AND IN-
 SIipARAnE
COntinued ffom paVs [

tIe burden Ot cost TeHtlugt pfuCttChilyt upon the shoulders of every man within che boundaries uf tle district.
 In this system the personal element enters toO largely and personal influence too often OutwcighS expert judgment. With thc enormous capital requisite tD success, administrative weakness and the lack of thoroughly reliable and com pet.nt engineers to locate intelligently and plan iua-ibly slructurally correct works, coupled with the fact that only the credit Of the district was behind the bonds issued, this cntaillng their sale at varying and often dlsprOpOrtl"nate ig- ures accounts for 1t all. Perfected along the strong lines of the system only with the state credit behind the district, as it we'll may be, aud totally dlsa-sOciated from all uint Ut politics the system would undoubtedly prove the salvation oi many districts that the national law cannot serve.
 Under the new order that will obtain 80 long as Tcdcenablc acres remain ln the Sunshine Kingdom of the south west, executive and administrative abil- ity will go hand in hand with pubic capital that in it's very volume ensures absolute success. With the natural and resultant expansion of every system lands now deenicd outside the irrigablc areas will be reclaimed and populations that are now numbered in tens to the square milr--a- an average-will then be counted in the hundreds.
 The irrigated lands of the Pharaohs in the Nile valley Of Egyut support "A teeming population of above five mil lions; support a most costly and eX- travagant government and pays inter est OH Il national debt fully unc-hali AS great as that of the Cnited States. In the great Valley of the san Joaquin alone lies greater area of Irrignblc land than is watered by the Me. yet it's average population K below twenty-five to the square mile, while in Egypt the best figures obtaInablc -elatlng to the Nile river population show an average we'll above 5UO to the square mile. Sub icct tO the Colorado, the redeomable area of land appruxlmates 2,OOO,OO acres on which th" present population will average below five tO the square mile. No engineering estimate has vet placed the irrigation volume of the river below 2,OOO ,OO acres, and some have put it, conserved to some extent and regulated m it's flow, as It must be, at 5000 ,OOO acres. When It is consider ed that these estimates are of volumos the major part of which Is still running to the sea, It will be appreciated that with some measure of conservation and regulation oi the flow, such as will soon be undertaken above Yuma, the ques- ton of water supply is answered.
 Commercially romantic and tinan- cially daring as have been the opera tiuns along the Colorado and in the lm peral Valley, Il full measure of success, while possible, is scarcely probable un. der continued corporate ownership and management. The demand for divi- dends k too insisteut to allow of costly, time-proof works for conservation, regu- lation and distribution of water, while the costly and bitter experience of the many who in past years have lost their all under similar conditions would serve to minimize settlement. In the end corporate interests would tend to what might be called corporate settlement, the many small holdings passing into the hands of few and reverting to "bonanza farms" titled by transient la- bOr.
 The conclusion is inevitably reached that throughout all the arid and semi arid districts, water and land should be perletually and inalienaby joined, sub- jcct to laws and an administration that T -I. Al