Imperial Valley press., 1909-06-05
BIGGER MEN NEEDED.

BIGGER MEN NEEDED.
 the United States Reclamation Service regarded with suspicion by the Imperial Vaeyand fact entire condencet because officers of the harbor feeling of professional jealousy successful private enterprise of reclamation studousy ignore the greatest consummaed irrigation pro- ject the continent their writings on the subject o reca lands Many articles purporng to describe progress this great work have been written by neced with the Reclamation Service and of them that we have Imperial Valley mentioned The writers evidently endeavr the impression that rr gaton the United States invented by the Reclamation Ser and the exclusive control of that bureau.
 In the number of the National Geographic Magazine officer of the prosses comprehensive view of achievements of the engineers that converting the Great the productive farming region in the describes detail the various government projects and while he does not words that there other irrigation enterprises worthy of menton he crafty leads believe that covered the field and shown all done being and will be done in that line
 One section of the article devoted to the Colorado River and its problems but there word about the made of the water of that Imperial Valley The idea conveyed is Reclamation engineers only have undertaken bring the lands that the Lagna Dam the first step taken toward control the Colorado The writer As whole the Colorado river probably offers the most interest well stupendous engineering problem which ists in arid America today Solve it successfully and million desert in this country and half million in Mexico will furnish homes for than million people, And then he adds No power that of the Federal successfully with this problem"
 That dsingenuous and misleading. The fact that nearly half million have been reclaimed deliberately suppressed and there hint that the problem Of the whole region and the governments Yuma project solved by private enter prise when the Federal absolutely incapable of coping with it.
 Fcation by suppression not only fault this bureau author misstaes the when that sruction of Laguna Dam conquest mighty before controlled and the first important step toward amaon of the Colorado The building of aga Dam boys play compared with the closing of the break that let the Colorado into Salton Basin and the first step toward reclamation of the desert taken when half million diverted into Imperial Valley before the Reclamation Service heard of.
 estimated by sastician the Reclamation Service that result of the activities of that people established in the West" good but why udousy the fact that Imperial Valley reclaimed without the aid of the of the jealous hostility of pn-head bureaucrats incorporated cities and people it's homes all the pro- jects combined?
 The Reclamation Service eager get Imper a Valley and planning projects expansion the present canal system The bureau Ockyng for the inside postIon deal with MT Hartman for control of the whole enterprise the opinion of settlers the desirable solution valleys problem would be consolidation, terms foa Development Companys system with Laguna pro- jec and the comprehensive system of contemplated by the government But doubt the placing the the the Reclamation when the petty jealousy and pnhead dsgenuouness officers of the service appear so conspcuousy.
 Imperial Valley the greatest irrigated region America in the Its reclamation the most successful and urhe advanced in the country and widely known than any other Imperial Valley envied and coveted who take much pains make it appear that significant to be worthy of mention connection with their ing achievements.
 The Reclamation Service will be welcomed Imperial Valley day. but perhaps not until that bureau ocered by with minds bigger than peanuts.