Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — WESTERN LANDS MADE FERTILE [ARTICLE]

WESTERN LANDS MADE FERTILE

Interstate Convention Urges Congress to Make an Appropriation, The Interstate Irrigation Convention, at Omaha, adopted resolutions, Thursday, that the Government should make an appropriation to test the practicability of irrigating the plains; that the Government should by experiments determine whether the underflow water is of sufficient volume and can be brought to the surface at a cost to make it available for general irrigation purposes, and that it should determine the extent to which reservoirs can be constructed for the purpose of storing water sufficient in quantity for Irrigation purposes.