Arizona republican., 1904-09-21

18th of June in response to a telegram | from F. H. Newell requesting him to meet him in Boise. Idaho. They went via Los Angeles and San Francisco to Portland, then up the Columbia river to The Dalles and from there to Boise arriving in about four days. During the rest of the summer Mrs. Fowler was with her husband the greater part of the time and returned with him as far as Los Angeles where she is stop ping a short time to visit with relatives They returned via Portland and got back to san Francisco during the Knights Templar conclave, meeting 1 there great many Arizonians and many of their friends from as far east as New England, and of course enjoy ! ing their brief stay in the city. Com | ing on to Los Angeles he remained day or two longer than he expected for | he did not really know whether to leone back to Phoenix direct or go to Prescott where letters and teIegTans- were enmeshing him in a political en- terprise. He faced the music went to the front, and bore away the banner. all of which is now history, only that ne is going to keep bearing the banner until after the next engagement.
 Boise is the prettiest and most up 70 date little city, says MT. Fowler | that he has seen during all his travels on the coast, and the people are just as good as the town. When he arriv- ed there he found MT. ewelI holding a conference with the engineers of the reclamation service in tn northwst It was made known to him that it was very much desired that he should per sOnally study the projects in that part of the country and then aid both the government and the people lending his experience during the organization of the Water Users association here, to the settlers under the northern pro- jects, and helping them in their pre- liminary organizations. He very read fly compiled for he realized that it was not only glorious opportunity for the broadening of his own horizon in ir- Irigation matters but that any work he could do in behalf of the reclamation service would be gratefully appreciated and certainly could not come amiss in the close relations that must necessar- fly exist between the storage enter prise here and the reclamation bureau of the federal administration.
 A week or more was spent in the study of the two large nearby projects known respectively as the Minidoka and the Payette-Boise irrigation en- Iterprises. The Minidoka is situated on Snake river and is designed to water approximately 1000 acres of land. The Boise project includes the city of Boise and is designed to water about 300.000 acres, one third of which is already under cultivation and which enterprise is in that respect very sirnf- lar to the one in this valley
 Mir. FOwkler was next sent to the
 MT. Fowler was next sent to the Maheur project in eastern Ore gon on Snake river between the Malheur and Owyhee rivers. It was here that he did the most work dur ing the summer. The proposed reser- Voir is expected to reclaim akout 125,- coo acres of land. He spent over a month there during the summer, tray cling back and forth more or less, hold ing meetings and conferences, aiding in preliminary organizations of the settlers. and arousins enthusiasm among them. A committee of seven teen was finally appointed to proceed with organization. Articles Of incor- poration were drawn up, and adopted later at mass meeting and about 50. . OOO acres were signed 10 it almost i'm mediately. About S1O0O was raised Tor preliminary expenses and provision made for the later raising of more funds. At the last big meeting held at Ontario the principal town in that basin, MT. Newell, NIT. Savage. MT Wiley and Mir. Bien, all engineers oi the survey. were present and spoke very eulogistically of the work ac- comDlished.
 Leaving Ontario he returned to Boise and the night before he left thai city a monster meeting was held hay ing been arranged for by the CoIurn- bia WOman's club of Boise. MT Newell, Clifford Pnchot of the burea1 or forestry and MT. Fowler all address ed the meeting, together with mum.
 per or local speakers, the meeting be. ing presided over by the mayor. Tn, people there are all enthusiastic ovel
 the project which is moving aheat
 rapidly.
 The weather there was very hot 7
 part of the time and one day he saw
 the thermometer at 1O6. Notwithstand
 ing that country is no great distanc,
 rom the coast rain belt he only saw
 rain one day since he left here Tn, r soil is wonderfully rich however an,
 while the rivers are full of water th. T adjacent lands are as dry as they ar,
 here, without irrigation. He was espe
 clafly impressed with the soil unde
 the Malheur project where the sag
 brush often grows higher than a man
 head.
 During the summer he did get
 couple of weeks of good rest at Ho
 Lake. 200 miles west of Boise wher
 he stopped a resort. better known a
 sanitorium. There is a monster ho
 spring near by and during his sho~
 stay he saw many wonderful cure
 or rheumatism, or at least great relic
 given for men would come on crutcbe -- and after few days throw them avvay But at the end of two weeks he wa called back to Ontario to attend an
 other big meeting made necessary b the progress of operations and also t