The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-04
Messrs. Jones, Carter, Warren
and BOrah Have Dinner With
Senator Sutherland.
WANT INFORMATION ON
RECLAMATION SERVICE
Senator Jones Says the Senti-
ment in the East Is Against
the Work.

cation projects under way. These men
arc Il part of the senate committee
appointed TO secure Information con-
cerninm the reclamation service III It's
operations in the west. The senators
in the party are Wesley III. Jones of
Washington, Thomas II. Carter of Mon
lana Francis t. Warren of Wyoming,
and William L. Borah Of Idaho, +. ii.
Newell, chief Of the reclamation ser
vice and II w. Smith aud f. j, Muir
ply OF Washington aud William Dubois
of cheyenne are also in the party. We'd
mcsday evening the senators were guests
at dinner given in their honor by
Senator George Sutherland at the Alta
club
The visitors will he shown some Of
lhc points of interest ~ and about
Salt Lake Thursday morning. and will
leave IL the early afternoon tor t'allou,
New, where they will inspect the Car.
sou-Truckcc project.
Wednesday was spent in the iuspcc-
lion of the Strawberry project On
Monday the senators saw the wonder
ful GunnIsou bore and its adjacent
irrigation enterprises. The committee
already has covered South Dakota,
Washington Montana Idaho, Utah and
n part of Oregon. From Nevada they
will proceed TO California, finish with
Oregon and rc;um through Arizona.
The information gathered by the com
mittes viii not be compiled IN The
form of a report. but viii be used
as a basis for an amendment TO the
reclamation act should it be deemed
wise TO present ono.
Talk with Senator Jones.
In speaking of the Strawberry pro.
jcci. Senator Jones said.
"Thc land 10 be reclaimed certainly
strikes mc AS being excellent. OF course,
..s tSnl,s hat hn 1lt
mate cost OF the enterprise Will be.
When il was first ordered it WAS csti-
mated that the cost would be about
so an acrc. The area. we understood,
would include between $1,000 aud 60
Ou1 acres, There must be bore 10,
u01 feet long. and it is difficult TO say
Just what that tunnel will cost for
10 one knows what character Of rock
viii he encountered. -
What is thc feeling in Washington
with reference TO reclamation III the
WcSt!H
''WrlI. there is good deal of OPP
position to ii. | am sorry To say,
said Senator Jones. '''rhc opposition
comes from no particular quarter, but
seems 20 be general throughout the
cast. They do not take kindly &c the
idea ot putting revenue from the pub
liz lands back into the reclamation
service. They do not quito understand
that practically all OF the land suitable
for homestead entry has been exhaust
cd. and that the only hope for The
man who > looking for y home uoN
is to buy land that is under one of
the irrigation projects.
Irrigation mcauS great deal for
ihc west. YOU say continued Senator
luncs, his flashing black eyes showing
the carnesfncss with which he vicws
the subject. ''Truc enough; but it
well. This is 50, because the eastern
man will be the one who will come
10 tho west to buy his farm and make
his home -
"tIow much money will be required
by the government TO complete the en-.
icrprlscs now under wayP'
Work Under Way.
The government has now in various
stages of progress about SJ.0U0.OOO
worth of work. It is that sum that
viii be necessary for their completion.
Ing how much money we viii need aS
o1cc 30 keep the work going ] believe
we ought TO have S25 100000 This.
with the money that will be forth.
coming from land revenues Will be SUI
iicicnt TO Keep the work going for three
or four years. -
Senator Jones expressed himself rs
that has been made on the enterprises
tnAt have been visited, and be sin
corcly hopes that il will not be uecos
sary to discontinue any Of il.
Western members - said he. t.I be-
llcvc. should proceed with extreme eau
tlon in preparing any amendments ia
the reclamation act. If they ask Zoo
much il will open mp ihc whole aues
iIon again, and then / would not at
tempt 10 say what would be the oIt.
come. We are gathering data now so
hat we may know precisely what wc
arc doing when we take up the qucs.
tion agfin ''
What do YOU foresce in the cono,ros
slonal session that begins next month go
Woli, i think il wnl be a very i'm.
portant session, "a Very important sos
sion, indeed. The president has 0ntIincJ
some of the things he expects congress
10 do, and mauy Of these arc OF the
most vital importance. Among the first
OF prominence, | may say. will be tbo
president S plan with regard to the in
terstatc commerce commissions That i
big question. Then there is the shin
subsidy and others.
Do you think fhe financial oncs.
ton VIII be reachedS''
Well, at first we believe the none
tarv commission would not bc ready
with Its report ut this session, but thc
president seems TO believe now that tbn
report will be made. That is n vcrv
big question and viii take up n prcat
deal Of time -
. Does the idea of central bank
seem 10 ilnd favor AS n general thing';
The central bank plan seems TO he
held by good many people 10 be tho
solution of the monetary question: So
few Of the people know ANYTHING about
IT that IL is difficult TO base any state.
mcnt Of value with respect TO the feel
ing about the plan. There is "a good
deal OF o"posltion TO il. that much /
know. but that opposition may he due
to the fact that people generally are not
conversant with the method -
Bankers generally are opposed to
1T, arc they not?'
swell, ] believe there is a good deal
of opposition among bankers. but | M
derstand, too. that the central bank idea
has some friends among them
How does Wall street regard it7o
Wall street seems 10 be divided on
the question.
And then Senator Sutherland came
and carried Senator Jones off to din
ncr.