In the arid regions values attach to the water rather than to the land. Water is scarce, while land is comparatively abundant. There is approximately ten times as much land as the water supply under present usage will irrigate. The Increase in value of land as soon as it is reclaimed and is insured a permanent water supply Is enormous. Professor Carpenter, writing for Colorado, states that. A doubling of the duty would increase the public wealth of the State from this source alone by Undoubtedly the efficiency of our water sup ply can be improved to a great extent when the relation of water to the soil and Cl op becomes properly under stood - when the land has been cultivated and irrigated a number of years, and a better agricultural practice becomes general.

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