Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-29
sisMARck DAILY TRsUNE, SATURDAY, APRIL ., 1905.

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boon that could come to this country.
Everybody would be benefited from
the man who digs the bitches to the
farmer who trebles his crops and the
city which would profit by the gen.
eral profit by the general prosperity
of the farmer" ...,.. x
b. L. Faunce: ,"It is the most bene-
fetal thing yet suggested for this
section" 4 ,
VIM. Couch: eyes, sure thing"
H.. I. Reade: IF I had land in the
district couldn't get to signing up
quick enough. I have friends in the
east who have land in the district and
7 1 have written them urging their get.
ting on the band wagon at once"
G. w. Wachter: PERSONALLY I want
to see this irrigation go through.
The Trensfer company has consider
able land inside the district and I am
convinced its value would be largely
and rapidly increased even before the
water got on the land as the certainty
OF sure crops would make it the most
desirable land in the country"
H. Moser: Nothing will make the
Missouri Slope richer than general
irrigation of her lands. Everybody
In Bismarck should help this PROPOSE
tfon."
Several Real Estate Men: please
excuse us from being interviewed on
this subject"
Henry Suttle: Gas land owner of
the proposed irrigation district I am
most emphatically in favor of the go.
Ing ahead with the work. In my
trips west I have paid particular at.
tentfon to the great irrigation works
that have changed the desert into
garden spots and trebled the produt
tiveness of lands that originally raised
good and regular crops. There can
be no reasonable objection raised to
Irrigation in this state, especially in
this part of it. It would be as reason
| able for the people of the Red river
valley, where the lands are almost
yearly too wet to seed in the spring
to object to the proposed drainage
system which the government is con
sidering. Such agitation in the valley
has not affected the price of land, bu
on the contrary, the prospect of hav
ing dry ground for seeding has addet
value to land already we'll up in price
believe the proposed irrigation
scheme feasible, for believe in thu
Judgment of the government engineer.
who have mastered much greater
problems than this. From my owl
observation there is no doubt in my
mind that getting water on our lands
here is the most important matter
which has ever come before the PEG
pie of this vicinity, but to many the
requirements of the government seen
harsh until they fully understand the
details and the sound business princi
| pies upon which those requirements
| are based. We cannot expect to gel
something for nothing; there is moth
ing in this world worth having that
is not worth paying a reasonable
price for, and certainly the conditions
attached. for the use Of the badly
needed water are amply within rea
son. I am ready to sign up for all
my land whenever the papers are in
shape to do So"
Miles Mack: 81 am ready to sub
scribe for my land in the water users
association whenever the papers are
fixed UP. Irr igation looks good to
| me and want the works built-the
quicker the better"
Judge Winchester: ut is a good
thing for any country and 1 hope we
get it. Without water l could raise
little in my garden, and that is dem.
onstration enough to me that ;rriga.
ton will help Bismarck and the
county,