Arizona republican., 1906-09-20

5A~'' iiA eA AAS iCEOAl anu lllt COll- vention, by vote of about three to
 one, sustained the committee in it's re- port which made no reference to the proposed appropriation. I had the op- portunity of closing the debate by | reading the following from President ROoseVelt's letter to the congress on the subject:
 This great meeting of practical l irrigators should give particular at tentiOn to this problem and others of the same kind. You should and I doubt not that you will. give your ef fectual support to the officers of the government in making the reclamation law successful in all respects. and par ticularly in getting back the original investment so that the money may
 be used again and again in the com pletiOn of other projects and thus in the general extension of prosperity in the west. Until it has been proven that this great investment of S40,0OO.- 900 in irrigation made by the govern ment will be returning to the treas
 ury it is useless to expect that the people of the country will consider
 direct appropriations for the work
 Let us give the reclamation service T
 chance to utilize the present invest
 ment a second time before discussing such increase
 Senator Carter of Montana. who
 presided over most of the deliberations
 of the congress in the absence of Gov.
 Pardee of California, made a splendid
 chairman and was ably seconded by
 Gov. Chamberlain of Oregon and Gov.
 Mead of Washington. one of the
 pleasant features of the congress was
 the address of Vice President Fair
 banks who spoke in hearty sympathy
 and approval of the work of national
 irrigation.
 'The program of subjects for dis
 cussion before the congress was ex- cellently chosen along very practical ! lines. Each speaker was limited to reasonable time and opportunity was
 then given for all delegates to raise | questions. MT. F. H. Newell, chief en- | gineer of the Reclamation service | made one of the most excellent ad- | dresses of the congress and handled ! the rapid fire of questions with mark | ed success. The addresses of Mr 1 Morris Bien and Mir. EIwood Mead rel : ative to the rights to the use of water, l were highly interesting and Mir. Mead ! took the opportunity to pay a high i tribute to the Reclamation service and l it's practical work.
 At times through the congress l there were evidences of some fricC:on between the advocates of private en- | terprises under the various Cary act . projects and the Reclamation works [ under contemplation, but the frank ana businesslike attitude of the Recla- nation officials tended to greatly allay this friction.
 "One of the needs developed was a more thorough education on the part |
 ,f fIa r.f tical and scientific methods of irriga- tion. As a result of this discussion the following resolution was passed: 70 We recommend that the president | of this congress appoint a committed II consisting of five members of this II congress, whose duty it shall be to Il secure the widest publicity of scien tific information concerning irriga- tion, with the view of educating the new settler on irrigated lands in the proper use of water. stimulating the older users of water to a full appreci- ation of the value of improved meth ods,. and to secure the publication through the United States of such in formation as will serve to inculcate full recognition of the advantages of irrigated agriculture. This committee shall have the power to appoint a sec retary at a salary of not to exceed $25 per month, and to incur an expense of not to exceed the sum of S2OO for stamps and incidentals, including sta tionery, which sums shall be paid as other expenses of this congress are paid, and said committee shall make d full report of it's work at the session of this congress for 1907.'
 ''The committee appointed was made up of Prof. Fortier, state engineer of California, MT. F. c. Goudey of Den yer, c. R. Reeves of Boise, Dwight B. Heard of Phoenix, and F. H. Ray of Montana. This committee has already organized and hopes to be able 10 present something of practical ben eft to the next congress.
 During the meeting of the congress he formation and operation of water lsers' associations was quite thor