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Montana irrigation and the race for national water rights
The author argues Montana holds vast unwatered plains that could irrigate 10,000,000 acres, yielding national growth. He urges federal-led irrigation, warns private capital cannot fund it, and stresses the need to employ surging surplus labor while opposing land grabs by timber and desert land acts that threaten home builders and communities.
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George H. Maxwell
Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Montana
Prairie States
Great Plains
United States
Denver
Colo
American Institute of Bank Clerks
Lyman J. Gage
McKinley
Germany
Gage
Japan
Idaho
Austria-Hungary
Jawa