John Wesley Powell,in His Report on the Lands of the Arid

John Wesley Powell,in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878) ,famously stated that

A) 160-acre homesteads would serve as the best way to settle and cultivate the Great Plains.
B) individual farmers,not the federal government,should be responsible for their own water needs.
C) massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains.
D) the Mormon experiment in Utah was doomed to fail because the land in that territory was totally dry.