Community civics and rural life . ld be and is, therefore, being made to pro-mote the success of the farmer, and on the basis of his successto increase the prosperity of the country. 2 1 The states to which this law applies are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. See map. 2 Report of the Reclamation Service, 1912-1913, p. 4. 214 COMMUNITY CIVICS The Yuma project in Arizona opened a new Valley of the Nile where fourcrops of alfalfa are now raised on what once were arid lan
Community civics and rural life . ld be and is, therefore, being made to pro-mote the success of the farmer, and on the basis of his successto increase the prosperity of the country. 2 1 The states to which this law applies are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. See map. 2 Report of the Reclamation Service, 1912-1913, p. 4. 214 COMMUNITY CIVICS The Yuma project in Arizona opened a new Valley of the Nile where fourcrops of alfalfa are now raised on what once were arid lands. The streetsof Yuma and Somerton are crowded with the automobiles of farmers,enriched by thousands of acres of splendid long-staple cotton, alfalfa, corn,and feterita. Another irrigated valley in Arizona, that of the Salt River, hasfew superiors in the world and has come in three years into great planted to cotton last year 92,000 acres. Its crop was 96 per centperfect, the best record in the United Oats Harvested in Reclaimed Desert Land, WyomingU. S. Reclamation Service. The principal irrigation projects of the Reclamation Service are shown on the accompanying map. Five or six times as much arid land has been reclaimed by private enterprise as by the Reclamation _, . .... J . ,, TTT by states The first extensive irrigation project in the West and private was a cooperative enterprise by the Mormon colo-nists in Utah. It is said that about two fifths Arthur D. Little, Developing the Estate, Atlantic Monthly, March, igig. CONSERVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES 215 of the land irrigated in the United States is supplied withwater by works built and controlled by individual farmers orby a few neighbors, while another one third is supplied bystock companies. As early as 1877 Congress passed a desert
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