The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-16
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me as if nature had put natural de-
pressions for reservoirs all through
this great region.
S!oulC Build More Homes.
We have spent millions for rivers
and harbors and we are ready to spend
millions more on them and on our
navy, because we are going to dominate
the sea az we have already subiugated
the land. And while we are preparing
70 cut the isthmian Canal-for we are
going to cur it, no matter what that
little republic down there thinks about
lt-While-We are preparing to cut that
canal while we are carrying TO the
philippines the principles Of our nation
and while we are sending our products
TO the farthest parts OF Asia, we ought
10 expend our energies here for the pur-
pose of building homes for people here
IN the greatest land for homes in the
world. The problem of irrigation
con IS right home 40 the people here in
the arid and semi-arid states, and irri-
cation and flood prevention are the
great twin questions of today
Senator Burton read a letter from
d. NJ. Harrod Of the Mississippi river
commission, endorsing the views al
ready expressed by Senator Burton.
and then continued:
The irrigation fund belongs to irri-
SaIlon alone. 1t is not the purpose that
any Of that fund be taken to prevent
floods at least outside the states
named in the bill What ! want is that
we nave more money to prevent floods
and treat these questions as twin ideas.
i do not want this congress to con-
Nene next year with only twenty-sIx
states and territories represented.
want TO see forty-fve states and all the
territories represented next year. and
IT you declare as strongly i'm favor Of
HCod prevention IS you have i'm favor
Of irrigation you have a continental
question. You have then "A question
Jhat stretches from ocean to ocean
We have never invented a flying
machine. and I think we never can
that is. enough to speak about-because
man dominion is not up there IL Is
mere on the earth. We can never make
rain by artificial means That idea
has been exploded long ago. and we
never shall make rain, because rain is
made too high up for man to reach.
II is not intended we should make II.
because God Almighty said mans do
minlon is the earth, and it is here that
we must work"
Resolution is Adopted.
Senator Burton closed by presenting
the following resolution. which was in
troduced by unanimous consent and
referred to the committee on resolu-
tons:
p Resolved, That il is the sense of =
= this congress that the storage of >
y water in the extensive catchrneDt ;
= areas Of the streams for the pre- =
' NehJlOn OF floods and for power y
= and irrigation is both possible and =
= practical: and that the govern =
' ment can accomplish far more to- y
' ward the preservation Of life and >
y property in the lower reaches of =
' the streams by directing its efforts = !
? IN this way toward the prevention = /
? o. floods than ii can by it's present . Z
= method in trying TO control them. = /
? and the waters thus consumed = !
' would be of inestimable value and > /
? q blessing to the people i'm the.arfd . /
: and semi-arid districts. We be- > 4
= lieve that irrigation and flood pre- y 4
' Nenuon are twin ideas 10 be devel- > 1
= oped together.
Messrs. Boothe and Bunker who
were down on the programme for adj /
lreSSes. were not present. Letters and /
kilograms from Senator's Patterson Of !
colorado and Depew Of New York
Thomas +. Walsh Of Massachusetts
former president Of the congress. u
II. Mohat of Denver. -. r. Francis of
st. Louis, president OF the exposition.
D. M. Harrod Of the Mississippi river
commission and Louis Coulson Of Mon
ana were read, and an adjournment to
omorroW morning was taken.