The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-30
HIEE INSPECTED
RIVERS AND HARBORS
congressional Committee Visits
Salt Lake.
PROGRESS AT SAN PEDRO
CHAIRMAN BURTON FAVORS
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.

Tho Congressional committe On riv-
and harbors. with Chairman Bur
of Ohio as cioerone. arrived in Salt
lake in three special cars yesterday
ming and. after spending the day
INC he sights of the city including
rc.itaI at the tabernacle and dip in
-. lake continued their journey east
the Rio Grande Western last
The congressman. with their
-5gas and several friends. nave oteh
,-.og the country since June ., look
10 m rivers. harb1Ts and scenery
i'7 g3-rr0n looked somewhat shocked
~ ss-eF what report the commit
~ Intended 10 make o. congress with
.-fsrance to- the San Pedro harbor
NC extensive Improvements are be
made I'VE don't give out anything
i i-7 95vanra about our reports, yoU
i-or.r III said. 81 con say, though,
.tsr the San Pedro work. for W hich an
s-rr0priation was made IN lSvV, is go
~ along au right j. viii be COM
,rarsI by the time your railroad gets
there. s--.-...,-..7
NTH the necessity for irrigating the
.-sF lands of the west. but could give
M idea as 10 probable action by con
gr-ss on the matter, as his committee
6gs norhiug TO do with It. He said there
vas no doubt but that vast area OK
1srd could be brought under cultVd-
lion cheapIv if national ana ia the
briIding of reservoirs can be secured.
A Long Trip.
Mr. BJrtou and other members Of the
Marty said their trip had been most
IIisasant one. They started from Wash
ingt5n June g and went To New OF
leans stopping at Mobile en- route 70
INSPECT the harbor. From Mobile the
travellers went on TO the Crescent city
and looked at the river front. The
next stop was at Houston. Tex, several
DAVIS haing spent in that vicinity. June
9 the start for the Pacific coast was
made. this part of the journey iHclud-
ing stops at San Antonio and Fl PaSO-
Thursday and Friday, June la and H.
We. spent i'm Los Angeles visiting the
san Pedro and Santa Monica harbors.
From Los Angeles the party made It's
way in a leisurely manner up the coast
20 san Francisco, where a week was
spent The committee went by rail-
from San Francisco to Stockton and
then bv boat down the san Joaquin u
the mouth of the Sacramento river and
thence up 20 Sacramento. Several days
were passed in and around Sacramento
and then the journey to the Puget
sound country was begun
AT Seattle on July Is the party. board
ed "a steamer for Alaska. the voyage
occupying eight days. on the trip
from Seattle down 60 Salt Lake the
committee visited Lewiston. Ida, and
the head waters of the Snake river
We have visited every section of the
United States. suE,' said Judge Lester
of Georgia, and petition, sub, of New
Jersey The judge added that ne had
not found a more delightful place than
salt Lake in all his journey.
A prominent member Of the party
was Judge Walter Reeves of Illinois.
Judge Reeves was strong candidate
before the last Republican convention
IN that state for the EuDernatorial nom
lE1tIon. Ia fact. mis- friends say Judge
Yates only beat him by the merest
fukc
The party was made up of Congress
men Theodore Z. Burton of Ohio. Wal
Jrr and Mrs Reeves of Illinois. ROs-
well p. Bishop and son OF Michigan.
Ernest F. ACheSOn and wife of Penn
Syivaaia, D. 4. \. Alexander and wife
or New York George p. Lawrence and
VIE of Massachusetts,, James II. Da-
NiGSon and wife OF Wisconsin, Rufus T.
Lester and wife of Georgia. Philip u.
Actuiloch7 wife and daughter of Ar
halSasi = $. Berry and wife of Ken
Lltay Thomas II. BAH and wife of
Texas, Mrs. Bankhead and Miss Rich
ei-Son OF Alabama. L. NJ. Ellis. secre-
la'y TO The committee; Frank II. Hitch
cock chief of the bureau of foreign
markets ct the department Of sgricui-
t-le' j. ". HenCke, secretary To Me-.
burton and Mrs. Hencke, Arthur Crist,
messenger