The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-03

moval OF restrictions upon such use
The resolution:
That the necessary rights of way
and rights for construction of reser-
VOirs and other uses of the public
lands. for development of electric pow
er, should be encouraged and aided in
every possible way. and all such rights
and uses should be granted and al
lowed upon equal terms with similar
rights granted for the direct purposes
of irrigation. Such uses being public
uses subject to the ruling of the state.
should continue so long as the right
to the beneficial water and the duty to
supply the power continues under state
laws. And no burdensome charges or
determinations should be enacted or
imposed as result of which such ben
eficial developments may be delayed
and the investment of capital therein
prevented and the cost increased to the
consumer
After recommending the construction
of levels and revelments, where needed,
drainage works for the reclamation of
swamp and overlooked lands and the
general conservation of waste waters
through reforestation and other means
the resolution continues:
Census of Standing Timber.
That a census of the standing tim
Der in the United States should be au-
thorized by congress, and that the
states should be urged to cooperation
with the nation for the preservation
and enlargement of our forest resources
by adoption of uniform forest laws.
and that forestry, irrigation, drainage,
HOOD protection, water storage and riv-
er regulation and control for naviga-
ton and water power should be regard
ed as one great interrelated subject in
all legislative and executive policies
That power made available by ma
tlonal jrrigatio works, when once ap-
Piled by pumping or other duty con-
nected with irrigation, should be re-
garded as appurtenant to the land.
and we urge the enactment of laws to
this end
The resolutions give sweeping in
dorsement to the work of the reclama-
ton service, the forest service and the
geological survey, and urge on con-
gress continued support and increased
appropriations for all of these bureaus:
urge the repeal of the timber and stone
act Ito the end that the accumulation
of the public timber lands in the hands
of few great corporations may be ar
rested: urge the speedy creation Of the
southern Appalachian and White
mountain national forests: ask con-
gress for an adequate appropriation for
the use of the photographic division
of the geological survey to determine
by experiment and measurement and
observation the practical effects of
grazing and numbering on the supply
of water for irrigation and on the ero-
sion of the soil. and that such inves-
LEGATION extend over the entire water
sheds. both in and out of the national
forests, and that such investigation be
prosecuted simultaneously throughout
all the states and territories of the
arid and semi-arid west"
Against Free Sugar.
A strong resolution against free
sugar is included. also resolutions for
the creation of immigration bureaus
by the western states and territories;
requesting cooperation with the ma
tiOnal conservation commission, con-
serVatiOn committee of the Irrigation
congress being authorized; urging that
the Carey act be made applicable to
the territories; endorsing the move
ment TO hold a session of the congress
in Washington in 1910, 10 be known as
an international congress on irrigation
and asking appropriations from the
state and the federal government for
this congress, and authorizing the
present congress to appoint a COM
mittee of five, to be known as the con-
gressioEal committee, charged with the
duty of urging the recommendation
of the organization on the congress.
A separate resolution was adopted
providing for the election of a board
of governors, consisting of the chair-
man and four other members of the
executive committee and the president
and congress, with full authority to
act for the committee in all matters
in which it has authority under the
constitution, the aim being to secure Il
campact organization which will allow
a continued activity between sessions
OF the congress.
A report of the special committee ap-
pointed at Sacramento, consisting of
Clifford Pinchot, F. H. Newell. F. A.
Bard of California, F. J. Kiesel OF
Utah and George /. Barstow of Texas,
to investigate the feasibility of holding
an international congress on irrigation,
recommended the appointment of a
committee of five to arrange for the
holding of such a congress either in
Washington or at the capital of one OF
the Latin-American republics within
the next two or three years. the COM
mittee TO report to the seventeenth
congress.
Mr.. Hearst was the donor of several
handsome trophies 70 the Industrial
exposition, held in connection with the
and was given an ovation
when he was introduced. Mr.. Hearst
said:
MY attention has not been directed
to water so much lately as Oil-StanG-
ard Oil-and l have no letters which
refer to irrigation congresses.
This was his only reference to poli-
tics. the rest of the speech being de-
voted to a general discussion of irri-
Cation and its benefits.
Mr.. Hisgen was introduced and
for e mir Of ba