The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
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+ outlay by the government For tbs
I most part the lands reclaimed are part
7 of the public domain and open to set
I Element by any citizen who has not
! exhausted his homestead rights. The
/ secretary of the interior determines the
I area open TO entry by each settler.
within certain limitations There are
/ localities where the limit is forty
/ acres. others where it is eighty acres,
J and yet others where il is leo acres,
( the purpose being to provide a suf-
| ficient area according to soil or lOca-
! ton to support a family No payment
/ for the land is required beyond the cost
/ of filing and recording But the settler
must repay the actual cost of reclaim
alton in ten annual installments with
out interest. The settler will not get
title to tha land until he completes the
payment for water There is no way
/ III which any except a genuine settler
can obtain land. Speculation is barred
by the provisions of the law, and where
private land Is held in large bodies. it
must be subdivided into quarter sec
tiOns. since no individual can purchase
a water right for more than $50 acres.
Prosperity for Nevada.
We anticipate an era of great activ-
Nevada dating from the hour when
water is first turned on from this first
canal We are to have a new Nevada.
which deserts transformed into pro-
ductive valleys and with men and wo-
men occupying the places which have
long sustained only cattle and sheep.
The expansion of population on the
soil means a corresponding increase in
towns and cities. and the stimulation
of business for the benefit of bankers.
merchants, wOTkingmen and RAILROADS
In a word, it means new impulse to
the prosperity of the entire state and
all elements of its people
I believe il would be impossible to
estimate at this time the influences
which viii ultimately flow from the at
tempt which we are celebrating in Ne
Vadd- The American people viii learn
lessons from this example Of internal
development and domestic expansion.
They viii begin to realize the enormous
value of their undevelOped resources
and to understand how it is i'm the
power of the nation. by the application
Of enlightened craftsmanship. to in
crease its power and wealth without
going beyond its own borders They
viii learn that one remedy for social
unrest IS 10 make II possible for the
people 10 find new outl=ts for their
energy and capital Finally they will
prise in fields hitherto reserved for
private enterprise, and they viii so
shape them as to secure the fair dis
tTibutiOu instead of unfair cOucentTa-
ton of wealth National irrigation is
but one manifestation of principle
capable of the widest application to
the nations affairs II is an expert
mEnt of mOmentOUs possibilities
Desert Will Smile.
Nevada has been greatly nisunder-
stood. Its population decreased for a
time with the decline Of the silver min
ing industry. II was commonly said
and widely believed, that the state had
no future But today its newly dis
covered mines are challenging the at
tentiou of the world. while il will now
be one Of the bsSt known states in the
Union because Of its newly opened ag-
ricultUTal possibilities It's climate is
such that in il the EngIish-speaking
man may win his greatest triumphs-
The truth is we had reached a point
whzre only public enterprise and large
public capital could solve our foremost
problem Fortunately. we have been
able to invoke that enterprise and en-
list that capital. and we now approach /
a new epoch in Nevada history-th-
transformation of the desert into the
homes of men, and the harmonious de- /
Of a prosperous common
wealth. based upon agriculture as we'll /
As mining, manufacturing and COM
n5Tce.
Fred c. Graham, tenor, SaItair, to-