The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-06

of the sections in which forest reserves
may be located to have the fullest pos
sible use of all their resources consistent
with their preservation and improve
ment
GIVE can and we will, - he declared
''have the full use of this portion of
our heritage and leave it better. than
we found it. Mr.. Reeder. chairman
of the House Committee on Irrigation
is thoroughly in sympathy and greatly
interested in its advancement. He be-
gan hfe as a country schooltcacher and
is strong advocate of the centraliza-
hon of country schools wherever prac-
ticable The centralized school was an
academic education possible for the
Young men and women who could not
possibly obtain these advantages other
wise.
Senator Carter. who had presided at
previous sessions, left the city last night
and Vice-President Shurtliff here called
Gov. Albert f. Mead of Washington to
the chair.
II, ST. George Tucker of Virginia was
introduced as gentleman OF ancient
and famous name and lineage lie is
president of the jamestown exposition.
to be held at Newport News, Va. IN
1907, and his special mission here is TO
ask the congress 10 hold It's next meet.
ing in his city. Mr.. Tucker possesses
sion and speech and charm of manner
that captivated his hearers, He has
rare fund of humor and is master of
pathos He said that as he came
through the heat and dust of the Snake
river plains there came to him the
Scriptural injunction that the ram
shall be made to fall alike on the, Just
and the unjust This left him in doubt
as to the classification of the people
Of Idaho, where it apparently never
rains. He had no doubt whatever that
the people who could make OF those
parched plains such a paradise as he
beheld In this valley would, should any
OF them be SO unfcrtunate as to go
there. make of that place which is sup
posed to occupy the neither regions. a
good summer resort. He strongly urged
The congress to come to Virginia in
1907.
Discusses Legal Phases.
Chief Engineer F. H. Newell made
an address on Claws and Methods
Under Which Irrigation Projects Were
Constructed by the General Govern
ment." He referred briefly to the
desert land act and the Cary act as the
predecessors of the present reclamation
act, and referring to the earlier discus
sion as to immigration said one of the
embarrassments the Government had en-
countered in this work was that there
were too many settlers He spoke of
the permanent character of the works
now being built under Government con"
troll and said cheap future maintenance
was given greater consideration in
their construction than the securing of
low initial cost. Following a short
discussion the morning session ad-
lourned
Roast Is Repudiated.
HE..l.S f..-.. Uvo14.- IL C-.-n.
a local engineer in private practice,
read paper before the congress. the
title of which was "Irrigat1on Under
the Carey Act in Contrast With Gov
ernment Reclamation It was largely
devoted TO roast Of the reclamation
service
Later the Idaho delegation adopted
resolution repudiating the sentiments
ticulaT, and this afternoon Judge Haw-
ley, chairman of the delegation. pre-.
sented resolution, and in doing so
made a statement of the case.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain of Ore
gop presided at the afternoon session
Right Rev. Joseph Arearelli of Den
yer, the first speaker, who spoke of Ital-
ploEed the tendency of immigrants from
the big cities, but with this class he
contrasted the thousands of thrifty
Italian farmers who were cultivating
farms in the West.
Discussion of Claws Governing Wa
ter Rights and Methods of Appropri-
ating Water by Different States'' was
introduced by DR.. Elwood Mead of the
reclamation service.
State Engineers representing ten
States were present. but the only
speakers were John ". Lewis of Oregon
and John W. Wade of Helena, Mont,
president Of the State Engineers asso,
clation.
Richard ". Young of Salt Lake CITY
read paper on f'Sugar Beet Leeisla-
tion. - His argument was against the
free admission of sugar from the Phil
lppines, as has been persistently advo-
Gated before Congress,
Col. Robert II. Harrington of the
South Carolina delegation presented
''The Drainage Needs of South Caro-
Ina He urged the National Irriga-
ton congress to espOuse the cause of
mis- State and help to secure Federal
appropriation for the reclamation of
South Carolina marsh and swamp lands
John Henry Smith Speaks.
In the absence Of Gov. Cutler Of Utah.
who has not arrived, John Henry Smith