The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-10-08
FORESTRY PLAN
IS DEFENDED
SHARP CONTROVERSY rN NATION.
Al IRRIGATION CONGRESS-
AT ALBUQUERQUE.
RIGHTS OF COLORADO
PRESIDENT GoUDY SPEAKS FOR
THE PEOPLE OF THE SAN
LUIS VALLEY.

Albuquerque. N. M.-There was a
renewal at Thursday afternoons ses-
sion of the National Irrigation Con-
gress of the discussion Of the forestry
service, when Will c. Barnes. an in
spector Of grazing Oh the national for
ests, replied to the attack made on
him by ID. c. Beaman of Colorado the
day before.
Mr.. Beanan violently attacked
Barnes for writing magazine articles
laudatory of the chief forester while
On the government payroll. MT.
Barnes, who has been prominent
cattle grower in New Mexico and Ari-
coma for many years, undertook his
own defense and the defense OF the
forestry service. vigorously asserting
his right to give his views through the
medium of public speaking or maya
zine writing.
President Goudy In brief s~eech
took up the defense Of the rights OF
the people of the San Luis valley In
Colorado against an attack made We'd
06BuaN UN W. w. FoliStAp
engineer of the national boundary COM
mission. vino asserted that the Colo
rado people had no right Of usage OF
the waters of the upper Rio Grande
He bitterly resented what he termed
the stopping over" of Engineer Fol-
lett. who intimated that the Colorado
water users were trying to rob the
people of Texas and New Mexico and
Old Mexico OF the waters OF the river.
Mr.. Goudy declared that the south
ern water users were demanding mil
lions OF acre feet more water than they
needed, and said that while they
wanted water to irrigate millions OF
acres OF new land. the people OF the
San Luis valley merely want enough
water for the completion OF the irri'
CATION system which they have built
entirely with their own money. with
out government aid. This he con-
trasted with the attitude Of the south
crn water users. for whom the gov
ernment Is to build a great dam. and
who nevertheless want to appropriate
not only what water they need. but
great deal more. He showed clearly
that the water used in Colorado will
not affect tn. Elephant Butte project.
The capacity Of all our reservoirs
In the San Luis valley said Mr..
Goudy. will not be over 100000 acre
feet. We simply wish to complete the
reclamation Of long farmcd lands. We
are not asking to reclaim new lands.
There is absolutely no ground for any
contest between the people of Colo
RADIO and those OF Texas. and those
Texans who are seeing visions of a
civil war between the two states have
no basis for heir fears. We resent the
charge that we are thieves and rob
bers"
Mr.. Goudy paid a tribute to the keen
Intellect and sterling motives of Judge
Beaman of Colorado, whose speech as
sailing the forest service created such
a commotion Wednesday. He more
over. paid high tribute to Chief For
ester Pinchot. and said he believed the
forest service had already so pro-
tected the Lead waters of the Rio
Grande as to make all fears OF short
dam forever unfounded.
VIII c. Barnes. inspector of grazing
in the forest service. who was includ-
ed in Beamans attack, defended him
self and took a shot at Judge Bea.
man, when he declared all such at
tacks on the service were inspired b.
corporate greed or personal selfish in
terests. Mr.. Barnes warmly defended
Mr.. Pinchot and the administration OF
the forests. and took up in detail and
refuted specific instances of injustice
presented by ]. A. Eddy of Colorado
Colorado has occupied the prominent
place in the sessions of the congress-
Dwight b. Heard. of the Arizona Cat
tie Growers Association. defended the
forestry policy in behalf of that asso-
asserting that the cattle grow
ers of Arizona were satisfied with the
of the Arizona forests.
William w. Wheeler, assistant sec.
retary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. delivered short address
as the personal representative OF
President Roosevelt.
The resolutions committee today
voted down a resolution favoring the
of restrictions from foreign
proposed by C. b. Schmidt
Of Chicago and adopted a plank sup |
porting protection of American sugar. |