Kansas. and the Dakotas. within the humid limits. Mr. Chairman. for the several years preceding the enactment of this reclamation law in 1902 opportunity. for the securing of homes on the public lands and the extension of agricultural developmnent in the United States had well nigh become exhausted. I mean such opportunity had become almost exhausted in the humid regiQns of tie West. and what was to be done about it? Were our people to be allowed to emigrate to Canada. Australia. or to solne 6thc.- new country. where they would find agricultural lands blessed with adequate rainfall. or irrigated by the State? Mr.
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