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Smythe, William Ellsworth. Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added outlining the progress made during the five years since the book appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second, some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the movement which has led to the intervention of the United States government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.