I have just read from the report of the Secretary of the Interior. No citizen of the United States can read and study that report without being convinced beyond a question of doubt that America is facing a most serious situation. In years past. when immigrants were coming into this country at the rate of a million a year. with the fertile lands of the West unoccupied. the immigrants could move on through the cities of the East and find homes upon those unoccupied lands. and we had no difficulties to solve the question of feeding our everincreasing population. but conditions are different today. The day ias arrived when such fertile lands susceptible of irrigation without the storage of water have been already cultivated. No person can live at present upon the public lands remaining without the conservation of water to irrigate them.
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