Article December 20, 1900 Issue

Deserts Reclaimed by Irrigation

Problem Being Worked out by the National Irrigation Association.

F. H. Newell

Boston Herald

The tree is the mother of the fountain. "Save the forests. Store the flood waters. Reclaim the deserts. Annex arid America."

That is the slogan of the National Irrigation Association. The marvelous growth of the movement fostered by this organization, which held its ninth annual congress at Chicago a few weeks ago, is attracting the attention of the public in the East, as well as in the central and far West. The magnitude of the problem the organization has bravely set out to solve and the influence and energy it is bringing to bear are well worth considerate attention.

Millions of acres of barren land that might be made arable; miles of territory now uninhabited that should support many thousands of prosperous families. That is the proposition now being wrought out.

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