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Teddy Roosevelt: “The engineers making the preliminary examinations continually emphasize this need and urge that the remaining public…”

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The engineers making the preliminary examinations continually emphasize this need and urge that the remaining public lands at the headwaters of the important streams of the West be reserved to insure permanency of water supply for irrigation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt points out that engineers stress the necessity of reserving public lands to ensure a stable water supply for irrigation.

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