gated by pumping plants; and the pump and not the impounding dam is what has made a desert of twenty years ago, today, the garden spot of the world. Pumping water for irrigation necessitates small farms, intensive farming, and the growing of high-grade crops. Moreover, the experience of California has been that large pumping plants over an established subsurface water channel, supplying water for a considerable acreage, and owned by the farmers cooperatively, brings the water cost within reasonable limits.

Nevada possesses a widely diversified climate, approaching the semi-tropical in the extreme southern part of the State, where cotton, figs and fruits requiring a warm climate are grown, and temperate in the middle and northern part, where alfalfa, grain, potatoes, apples, peaches, pears, small fruits and vegetables thrive on the irrigated lands. Our agriculturists have paid little attention until recently to crops other than alfalfa and grain. The day, however, of the small and intensively cultivated farm is close at hand.

The introduction of the beet-sugar industry in Nevada, by the large plant now in process of erection at Fallon, representing an initial investment of about $600,000, may lead, on the practical demonstration of, its success, to the extension of the industry to other suitable localities in the State. This is an industry which is capable of great expansion, and, if successful at Fallon, it would seem that many other sections of Nevada would be equally adapted to its introduction.

Poultry, eggs, pork products, apples, and fruits and vegetables of many kinds are imported for local consumption in enormous quantities, which could be produced here and the money retained in the State. With several successful creameries the number is inadequate to supply the local demand for butter, and we likewise buy the larger part of our consumption of this staple from the outside. With just freight rates operating to give us equality of opportunity with other States, it is probable that certain kinds of manufacturing could be profitably introduced here, especially those which transform into commercial products the raw materials which we produce.

The concrete demand of the State is for new and diversified industries, for more crop-growing acreage, and for more population. The last will solve itself as a sequence to the solution of the first two.

There is, throughout the country, a great social migration from the cities back to the farm. The people are land hungry. There is a tremendous demand for farm acreage on which the home-seeker can discover a reasonable certainty of making a living for himself and family. It is of no advantage to invite people to Nevada to inspect our arid wastes before the ways and means of their irrigation is settled. That problem is for us to try to solve cooperatively with the National Reclamation Service.

Where a reclamation project is feasible the State should give its moral aid and encouragement to bring it to a practical consummation. I have already pointed out the way in which I believe this may be done. In conjunction with this stimulus, the State should at its own expense, within a reasonable latitude of exploration and experiment, assume the hazard of determining the practicability of irrigation by utilizing the subsurface waters in some of our valleys, where the conditions are most promising of success. Successful experiments of this kind could be so conducted, by prior arrangements with communities and land owners benefited thereby, to reimburse the State a part of, or the entire, expense. Once irrigation by such means were proved economically practicable in any given district, private enterprise may be relied upon to do the rest.

Four years ago the Legislature passed an Act creating a State Industrial and Publicity Commission, designed primarily to exploit the resources of the State at industrial expositions and through magazine and newspaper publicity. The commission has cost the State a substantial sum, without results to justify its continuance, and I recommend the repeal of the Act. What Nevada needs at this time to stimulate its upbuilding is not publicity, but the actual demonstration of tangible and concrete opportunity, within the reach of the average in our latent resources.

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There is work in Nevada, in my belief, of the most valuable and useful character for a properly constituted Industrial, Agricultural and Irrigation Commission. Such commission should have certain prescribed functions, as follows: (1) To study and investigate the resources of the State and to gather and prepare accurate data on all subjects pertinent to our industrial, agricultural, irrigation and reclamation progress and development; (2) to conduct a bureau of information on all subjects within the scope of its inquiries; to publish bulletins from time to time regarding industrial, agricultural, irrigation or reclamation opportunities, and to render its advice, encouragement and aid in support of any legitimate enterprise of a practical nature beneficial to the State; (3) to pass upon the merits and oversee the conduct of industrial and reclamation enterprises the securities of which are offered for public subscription; (4) to conduct reasonable and practical explorations and experiments to determine the feasibility of reclaiming favorable portions of the State by utilizing the subsurface waters for irrigation, and (5) to protect and conserve the rights and interests of the public in all applications to appropriate power sites on the rivers and streams of the State.

I therefore recommend that the Legislature create and establish a Nevada Bureau of Industry, Agriculture and Irrigation. That it be in charge of a State Commission consisting of the Governor, the Surveyor-General and the State Engineer, as ex officio members, and two additional members to be appointed by the Governor to be called the Commissioner and Associate Commissioner of Industry, Agriculture and Irrigation, who shall devote their entire time to the work of the commission and have their offices in said bureau. That said Commissioner and Associate Commissioner be allowed adequate salaries, corresponding to the importance of their duties, in order to secure men of the highest qualifications. I further recommend that the sum of $25,000 be appropriated to carry out the purposes of the Act, with the proviso that no disbursement from such fund may be made unless it be

agreed to by a majority vote of said commission at a regular or special meeting and the minutes thereof entered of record.

Such a commission, so constituted, devoting its combined ability, energy and wisdom to the problem of State upbuilding, within a reasonable time, in my opinion, will show results which will more than justify its creation, and directly and indirectly return to the people of the State benefits of far greater value than the cost of its maintenance.

PANAMA CANAL EXPOSITION

The completion of the Panama Canal in 1915 is to be commemorated by the holding of a World's Exposition to signalize the triumph of the greatest engineering feat in human history as well as the accomplishment of an enterprise of incomprehensible moment to the economic development of the Pacific Coast and the Nation at large. The City of San Francisco is entitled, by virtue of all conditions and circumstances, to be designated by Congress as the place for holding such exposition. I urge immediate action by your honorable bodies in respect to memorializing Congress to so designate San Francisco, and to pledge the moral and material aid and encouragement of the State of Nevada to assist in making such exposition at the City of the Golden Gate the most beneficial and successful ever held in America.

REVISION AND COMPILATION OF THE STATUTES The last Legislature passed an Act constituting the Justices of the Supreme Court a commission to compile and annotate the Statutes of Nevada and to present to this session of the Legislature recommendations for the revision and amendments of our code. This commission has been engaged on the work for the past two years and will present for the consideration of your honorable bodies certain important changes in our code, designed to simplify and modernize it, and to eliminate various obsolete and ambiguous features. It has been twelve years since the statutes were last revised, but no previous revision authorized has been so thorough and exhaustive as the present. The statutes enacted by this Legislature

are to be incorporated in this compilation when published. It will be necessary for this Legislature to make provision for its publication. It is believed that the proceeds from the sale of the compilation will approximate the expense connected therewith.

STATE UNIVERSITY

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The University has closed the last two fiscal years without any deficiency. The record of the institution in fulfilling the functions for which it was created has been one of steady progress and the State can feel just pride in what has been accomplished, both in the physical development of the property (the construction and equipment of excellent buildings and the beautifying of the grounds) and in the comparatively high standard attained in the various educational departments. University has been the beneficiary of several munificent gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mackay and Mrs. John W. Mackay, which include the splendid building of the Mackay School of Mines, the Athletic Field and Training Quarters and the beautifying and laying out of the Quadrangle as a part of a general scheme of landscape effect. The institution is one of immeasurable value to the Commonwealth and deserves the most generous support that the State can economically afford. The Board of Regents urge an appropriation for the erection of a Biological Building, somewhat larger than was asked for two years ago, but which is now to include the State Hygienic Laboratory, the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Veterinary Science and a Laboratory for Psychology. The work in these departments is very important, both from the educational standpoint and by reason of special useful work carried on for the public benefit. It is desired also to add to the University departments a School of Electrical Engineering, as there is a growing demand among students for such a course.

The University is also desirous of building up its School of Agriculture, believing that this is become at the present time one of its most important educational branches. To do so will require the purchase of a State Agricultural Farm, where students may be taught all forms and kinds of practical farm