The Elbert County tribune., 1909-08-26
DR.. wILEYs ATTACK ON EN-.
BALMED cUcuMBERs PROM
IsEs WARM SESSION.
SEC. WILSON ATTENDS
GREAT THINGS ARE PREDICTED
FOR COLORADO AeRlcuL-
TURAL FUTURE.

Denver.-SecretaryW Wilson Is In Den
yer to attend the convention of pure
food commissioners. As far as the
benzoate OF soda battle is concerned,
he says he is here simply to listen.
not to participate. He declined to be
drawn into an exposition OF his SYM
pathy either with DIR. H. w. Wiley,
head OF the bureau of chemistry, who
says benzoate Of soda is injurious to
health. or with the Remsen commiss-
ion which says it isn't.
I'm here to listen," said Secretary
Wilson. 1T is my duty to see that
the pure food law is enforced and as
there are doubtless will be some dis
cussion at this meeting as to certain
provisions Of the law, 1 am here to
gather the opinions of the people who
know about the matter and are inter
ested. l think the meetings of the
commissioners should be open to the
public. The days Of star chamber
methods OF government passed 400
years ago, and think members of the
press should have access to the pres
ent convention the commissioners in
vited me and other members of my de-
partment to be present at thist
convention and we are here, but
am not down for speech and
my part will be just to hear all sides
Of the question"
That was all he would say about
the business which brought him to
Denver this time. but when it came
to Chief Forester Pinchot he talked
freely and with emphasis.
"The general impression among the
men with whom I associate is that Mr..
Pinchot is doing the best he can with
the money at his disposal He is
spending $4.5oo.o00 a year." said the
secretary, land asking for half million
more. We are estimating on an in
crease OF that amount for his work.
Asked to predict what Colorado's
future ought to be, Secretary Wilson
was quick to reply that agriculture
meant more to the state than her min.
eral wealth.
Colorado will be first one of the
greatest agricultural states in the
Union," he said. "A great agricul-
tural state first. Then throughout
the centuries she will continue to
have great mining industries. The
state will build up in an educational
way also; she will have more fine col
leges and schools, more cities the size
and character of this one, with all OF
Denver's Western get-up and snap
about them, and more.
Colorado ought to grow all the
sugar the United States can consume.
Her sugar beets are one of her most
wonderful crops. She ought to grow
alfalfa, too, and in the dryer places
she should grow the bronze grass we
brought from Turkestan. 1t makes
fine grazing grass and good hay and
we find it growing away up in high
places over there, where there was
mighty little water.
DRY farming is feature of our de-
partment and while am on this trip
l expect to visit our experiment sta
ton in Belle Fourche, S. D., Chey.
enne, Wyo.. and elsewhere. We are
also studying irrigation problems.
believe the water used for irrigation
purposes now could be made to do
twice the work that 1t does. Wher-
ever reclamation project is com.
pleted we have man there to study
the conditions and advise us what the
best crop should be-"
secretary Wilson will go from Den.
yer into Wyoming and Idaho to inves-
tigate certain complaints that gooo
agricultural land has been segregated
into forest reserves.