Rise And Future of Irrigation in the United States
Rise And Future of Irrigation in the United States
Elwood Mead
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They are of no use as a warning to others, because not one in ten thousand of the parties concerned ever see them. A search for these notices along the cottonwood borders of the Missouri and its tributaries would be the unending labor of a lifetime; hence, the requirement was and is ignored ; it is another of the many influences tending to unsettle irrigators' just rights and bringing the attempts to frame laws for their protection into disrepute. Looking over the field at the close of the cent...ury, we find that the United States stands practically alone among irrigation countries in having left all the work of reclamation to the unaided efforts of private capital, and in the prodigality of the surrender of public con- trol of streams. In one respect the policy pursued has been suc- cessful. It has resulted in an enormous investment (not less than $100, 000, 000, and some estimates make it twice that sum) and the crea- tion of taxable and productive wealth of many times the amount invested.
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