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Excerpt from The Irrigation Age, Vol. 14: October, 1899 Industrial development always follows in the train of agriculture, . And. 1n some instances creates the field for horticultural progress. With the growth of soil products comes the railways, the postal delivery, the schools and churches and the wheels of manufacturing plants. While European countries are bidding for the expanding trade now awaiting American enterprise. The factories for making desirable goods should be located in the irrigated empire. These require labor and raw materials coming directly or indirectly from the rural districts where irrigation produces both the strong, health ful laborer and the material of which we must weave the finished article of commerce. Will the people of this country grasp and retain this new era of prosperity and develop Arid America, or shall the tide pass by and others gather the golden pearls brought from the isles of the sea? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.