. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . oughout the year. If farmers desire to settle in the forest reserves,taking up land suitable for agriculture, they arepermitted to do so. In this way all the landsvvliich can be used for farming will be put undercultivation. The right of grazing cattle over theforest areas will also be granted for a properremuneration to persons who own herds whichthey desire to pasture in the forest regions. Inthis manner it is believed that the full value ofour great forests will be realized. The lumber-man, the miner, the cattle owner, the farmer,will a
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . oughout the year. If farmers desire to settle in the forest reserves,taking up land suitable for agriculture, they arepermitted to do so. In this way all the landsvvliich can be used for farming will be put undercultivation. The right of grazing cattle over theforest areas will also be granted for a properremuneration to persons who own herds whichthey desire to pasture in the forest regions. Inthis manner it is believed that the full value ofour great forests will be realized. The lumber-man, the miner, the cattle owner, the farmer,will all be able, under reasonable restrictions andfor proper comi)ensation, to make use of thesenational reserves. None will be permitted to ex-haust them or to destroy their value. Moreover,the lower lands will be improved by having waterin the rivers, which can be used for irrigation and 94 CIVIL GOVERNMENT for carrying lumber and other produce to themarkets. Irrigation.—A large part of the land in ourWestern states is without rainfall, or receives so. An Irrigating Ditch, Washington little rain that farming cannot be carried onsuccessfully. The soil in much of this land isveiy fertile, so that if a water supply can be pro-vided, it will produce even finer crops than anordinary farming country. Here, too, the gov-ernment is assisting the people to develop ournatural wealth. It is constructing large reser-voirs in which during the rainy season the watersof the rivers are gathered. These waters arethen distributed over the adjoining lands by FORESTS 9) means of irrigation canals. Where formerly therewas a desert; barren and wild, growing nothingbut rough bushes and rank weeds^ there are nowfound beautiful fruit orchards and fields of wav-ing grain. State Reservations. — Many of the states havelikewise created forest reserves upon land belong-ing to them in order to preserve fine forest are managed in much the same way as thenational reservations, although, of course,
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