. Conservation. Forests and forestry. A BIG IDAHO DITCH Headworks on the Main South Canal of the Minidoka Project power, as a substitute for other fuels, thus limiting the rapid destruction of our forests and also conserving and saving our supplies of coal and other fuels. Third, the use of electricity for pumping renders it possible permanently to reclaim and irrigate vast sec- tions of our arid lands otherwise impossible of irrigation or reclamation. Fourth, its ex- tensive development will cheapen and extend manufacture and commerce, thus affording an immediate home market for the products
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. A BIG IDAHO DITCH Headworks on the Main South Canal of the Minidoka Project power, as a substitute for other fuels, thus limiting the rapid destruction of our forests and also conserving and saving our supplies of coal and other fuels. Third, the use of electricity for pumping renders it possible permanently to reclaim and irrigate vast sec- tions of our arid lands otherwise impossible of irrigation or reclamation. Fourth, its ex- tensive development will cheapen and extend manufacture and commerce, thus affording an immediate home market for the products of our irrigated farms and also cheapen transportation to other markets. Therefore, be it Rcsok'ed, That the necessary rights of way and rights for the construction of reser- voirs and other uses of the public lands, for the development of electric power, should be aided and encouraged in every reasonable way, and all such rights and uses should be granted and allowed upon equal terms with similar rights granted for the direct purpose of irrigation. Such uses being public uses subject to the control of the state, should continue so long as the right to the beneficial use of the water and the duty to supply the power continue under state laws. And no burdensome charges or discrimina- tions should be exacted or imposed as a result of which such beneficial developments may be delayed and the investment of capi- tal therein prevented and the cost increased to the customer. That the national government, as a part of 592 the comprehensive national policy of internal improvements for river control and regula- tion and the construction of inland water- ways and utilization of water power, and for the enlargement to the utmost possible extent of the area of the country available for agri- culture and homes on the land, and for the 'protection of those homes from either flood or drought, shall build not only levees and revetments where needed, and drainage works for the reclamation of sw
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