Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-12
NOTABLES HERE
FOR BRIEF STAY
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
ARRIVES
ARE ON TRIP OF INSPECTION
Senator Dubois Of Idaho Is EnthusI-
astic In Discussing Possibilities
of irrigation Projects In the
Southwest

The congressional irrigation commit
tee and party arrived in Los Angeles
by special train over the Southern
Pacific at $40 o'clock yesterday after
noon and are staying at the Van Nuys
The members of the party were all
pretty well tagged out on their arrival,
after more than ten days travel and
several hard overland trips in wagons
through Arizona and New Mexico. and
nearly all Of them retired after dinner.
They will be the guests of the cham
Der of commerce while in Los Angeles.
AT 9:30 o'clock this morning the party
will meet at the chamber of commerce
and be taken on an automobile tour Of
the city and immediate vicinity. At
noon the male members of the party
Will be entertained at luncheon at the
club by the chamber of COM
merce committee, of which r. O. Story
Is chairman. The women in the party
will be entertained at luncheon at the
California club by Mrs. j. B. Lippin-
colt.
Their stay in Los Angeles will be
brief, less than twenty-four hours, as
their itinerary schedules the start for
San Francisco at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon.
The party was met at Yuma, Ariz,
by Governor Pardee, Senator Flint,
Congressman Kahn of San Francisco.
Smith Of Bakersfield and McLachlan
of Los Angeles and escorted to Los An
geles. This escort will continue on the
trip through the state and to the Car
son-Truckee opening in Nevada.
Senator Dubois Enthused
Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho is
one of the members of the committee
and is very enthusiastic over the good
work being done through irrigation
projects and reclamation of arid lands
in the southwest He said:
This trip has been an eye-opener
for me, even, although am a westerner
and understand the need of irrigation
Of our southwestern deserts, and the
great good that comes of it. The won
derful progress being made with work
now under way and the great value of
the projects now in operation, all of
which we inspected, were a startling
revelation.
II really do not believe that the Cali
fornian has proper conception of this
great work, neither do 1 believe that
the possibilities Of good results are fully
appreciated. California will be the big
gest gamer in the final results from
irrigation and Los Angeles will get the
greatest direct benefit therefrom.
imperial Valley Scheme
''The Imperial valley of 100000 acres
of desert will become a garden spot,
and will rapidly be settled by thrifty
and desirable people. 1t is wonderful
territory and the possibilities that are
sure of realization, once the reclama-
ton service completes it's work, are
now inestimable.
"As an instance of what the irriga-
ton scheme will do in the way Of de-
veloping a desert waste 1 will cite the
Salt river district, which we visited.
The dam is on Salt river and the reser-
voir is 210 feet high and covers a sur
face of $4,000 acres. This will reclaim
200, 900 acres of desert land heretofore
unfit for cultivation or any other pur-
pose.
but the biggest scheme, and the one
which promises the greatest and most
lasting results, Is the Imperial valley
reclamation. Just keep your eye on
that country when the reclamation ser
vice completes its work and see it de-
velop into the garden spot of Southern
California"
Senator Dubois was asked If this tour
were junketing trip and he smilingly
replied in the negative.
'I don't believe such trips as our 120-
mile overland journey in a wogon
across the hot sands of Arizona could
be termed a junket by any means.
However. I shall go on a junket next
iIlOiltn Wucn mIS' IuDOiS anu myself
join Secretary Taft's party on trip
to the Philippines. We will be away
nearly four months and 1 trust 1t will
be junket all the way" He added
that there would be no extra session
of congress.
Those In the Party
Those in the party were United States
Senators Dubois of Idaho. Newlands OF
Nevada, Flint of California and F.
Mel. Simmons of North Carolina; Con-
gressmen Smith, Kahn and McLach-
Ian of California, Mondell OF Wyoming,
Reeder of Kansas. Jones of Washing
ton and Smith of Texas; Governor Par
dee; J. 1. Parker, chief of the division
of lands and railroads of the depart
ment of agriculture. Washington, D.