Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-23
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY WILL
COME WEST SOON
WILL MAKE EXTENDED TOUR
Engle Dam on the Rio Grande and
Roosevelt Reservoir In Arizona
Among Those to Be
Inspected
Special to The Herald.

| special TO Inc Herald.
KANSAS CITY, May 22.-The con.
gressional excursion composed of mem.
bers of both irrigation committees OF
congress, and others, will leave Kansas
! City on June / and will make a per-
sonal inspection of a number of the
large irrigation projects which the
| government is constructing in several
of the western states and territories,
The first stop will be made at FL
Paso, where a visit will be paid to the
Engle dam site on the Rio Grande. The
party will also take sixty-mile drive
into the mountains of Arizona to ex-
anime the construction work now well
under way on the Roosevelt dam. A
careful study will be made of condi-
tions on the Colorado river, the visit
extending into the famous Imperial
valley. portions of which are several
hundred feet below the sea level. In
California stops will be made at Riv-
erside. Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Redding and Sacramento.
On June II, the third anniversary of
the reclamation act the congressional
party will be at Hazen, New. at which
time water will be turned upon $4,000
acres of land under the Truckee-Car
son project, constructed by the gov
ernment and the first of the large irrl-
cation projects to be put into oper-
alton. Leaving Nevada. short stops
will be made in Ogden, Salt Lake, at
various points in Idaho, Oregon, Mon
tana wyoming and Colorado. The
party will break up July 4 at Denver,
Colorado
Members of Party
Included in the party are the fol-
lowing:
Messrs. and Mesdames Newlands,
Foraker Fulton, Mondell, Cooper.
Reeder, Marshall, Smith, Jones. Hitch
cock Senators Simmons, Dubois, War
rem; Judge ]. 1. Parker, representing
the secretary of the interior, and wife;
c. J. Blanchard, representing the re-
clamation service, and wife; w. H.
Hunter, Washington Post, and wife,
and Arthur Ruhl, Golfers Weekly
The itinerary of the party is as fol-
lows:
Rock Island Railway-June l. Kansas City,
leave II p. m; June 3, FL Paso. arrive 6:O7 a
m. visit Eagle dam Mesilla valley.
Southern Pacific company-June 5, Maricopa,
arrive 9:47 p. nj June 6, Phoenix, arrive $3.50
q
NJ. P & S. r, R Rune 6. Mesa, arrive
9:1S a. M: June 6, Phoenix. arrive 2:O5 p M,
sixty-mile drive from Mesa.
Southern Pacific company-June s, Marcopa,
arrive 9 10 p. m. June ., Yuma, arrive S:S5
a. M, drive to Laguna dam site In the morn
ing, afternoon trip down river steamer
Tune 10. Old Beach, arrive 5:42 a. m special
rive 80 a. m; June IL Riverside, arrive noon
s. p, J.. A. & :. L. r. Rune II, Los
Angeles, arrive 6:51 p. m.
Southern Pacific company-June u. San Fran
cisco. arrive $40 a. M June IS, Redding, ar
rive $3.50 p. m; June l6, Sacramento, arrive
4:45 a. m; June II, Sparks, arrive 500 a. m, ;
June II, Hazen arrive noon; June is, Sparks
arrive p. m,
oregon Short Line r. r. Co.-June 10. Ogden
arrive $40 p. M. June 19, Salt Lake. arrive
June 22 Nampa, arrive 1885 a. m; June %
Boise. arrive :25 a. m; June %. Nampa, ar
rive 1850 p. M. June %, Portland arrive 7;l5
a. m. 1une %, Seattle arrive ;05 a m.
Northern Pacifc-June o. Billings, arrive
:05 a.
Burlington-June 27, Touca, arrive 1O:2s a.
M; June y. Cody. arrive 2:30 p. m; June 90
Toluca, arrive 700 a. M; June 80. Alliance
arrive 300 a. M June 30, Guernsey, arrive
1900 n.
colorado and southern-June 30, wheatland
arrive 300; June 80 Cheyenne arrive 1880
:.
Union Pacific railroad-July l, Denver, arrive
6 900 j. m.
Denver and Rio Grande-July ., Montrose.
arrive 2;56 p. nj July a. Denver arrive 7;20