Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-04
GOVERNMENT WORK
BEING INSPECTED
Senate Committee on Irrigation
Touring the West on I'm
portant Errand.
ONLY IN THE BEGINNING
senator Jones OF Washington Says
Much More Work VIII he Taken Up
After Present l. Complete.

Uncle sam honored Salt Lake today
with the presence Of a number Of his
most distinguished servants In the
persons OF a goodly portion Of the
senate committee on reclamation OF
arid lands who are making tour Of
the west Inspecting irrigation projects
now under course OF construction and
In contemplation They arrived last
night over the Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad
In the party were Senator Thomas
H. Carter, Of Montana. chairman Of
the committee: Senator Wesley IA
Jones OF Washington. senator Francis
y. Warren Of Wyoming. Senator Will
lam =. Borah OF Idaho; Frederick H.
Newell, chief of the rec lamation serV-
ice; II. w. Smith OF san Francisco:
r A. Wadleigh Of Denver. assistant
general passenger agent Of the Dem
yer Rio Grando; and stephen ].
Murphy. sergeant at arms OF the
United States senate.
The visitors were taken 10 the
KnutsfOrd hotel and last night were
the guests OF Senator Sutherland at
a formal dinner given at the Alta club.
This morning they were motored about
the city, To Saltair. and 10 Fort
Douglas, Al so this afternoon they
left FOR Fallon. New. where they viii
inspect the Carson-Trckee project
and the Lake Tahoe reservoir. Their
trip viii then extend to California
ana oregon and the last lap will take
them east through Arizona and New
Mexico.
THE DEBT DUE NEWELL.
A slender. quiet little man. reserved
ia manner and with the air OF the stu
dent more than that OF the man % ar
fairs, is Frederick n Newell. chief OF
the reClama ton service, the man 10
whom the west owes an immense debt
For 90 him more or less directly Is due
the conversion from barren sagcbrush
tracts 10 fruitful land OF over l.200,000
acres in the intermountain west and
projects now under way OF as much
more. He Is one OF the nations most
valuable assets.
yes, il is a great work, this rec
lamation 81 the desert waste he said
this morning. and his eyes lighted with
a fire showing the inspiration OF his
life work. And perhaps II Is ~ that
something be said OF it in this, the very
center OF pioneer Irrigation in America.
For Il was here. right ina Salt Lake.
that the first lessons were taught and
the great possibilities OF these waste 3
were made manifest. The lessons which
were taught here over half a century
ago have been well learned and have
formed the fundamental principles upon
which oil successes in that line have
been attained.
TO COMPLETE THIS YEAR
yes. an OF the projects which we
have visited are going along smoothly
ruHHHH In ma.
pleted within year he continued
i'There viii he something like 100000
acres made tiuable by these and almost
as much more within three years. Then
there are others which have been
recommended TO Congress which vii.
be started as soon as available funds
are appropriated II is "A great work
and is being impressed more ana more
upon the people OF the east ard par
ticularly uNon members OF Congress
fr,om the middle west who have little
or no conception Of just what this rec
lamation means
'It is perfectly wonderful To note
the migration OF the eastern farmers
10 the west They are selling places
which have been family homesteads
eo. generations and setting their faces
toward the oCcidcnt And what IL NOSE
wonderful TO me a. that there Is 100
favored locality They scatter from
Northern Montana 20 southern Califor-
mia. In the next 10 years J expect u1e
intermouutain west O. treble So popu-
lation and increase it's wealth many
fold
"Thc strawberry utojectf Excellent
THAT 80 900 or more acres seems 90 m'
10 bc some of the best land Boo the Mcst
and should become garden spot NO
I cannot say what the ultimate cost
will be. n is always hard 20 make
even an approximate estimate Of That
character % work.
SENATOR JONES ENTHUSIASTIC
senator wesley X Jones Is a particu-
larry enthusiastic member OF the party
He Is also with the exception u III.
Newell. the most thoroughly posted
of any OF the committee. as his homo
h In Spokane ana he has spent much
Of his life IN a country which has been
redeemed from the desert. lie has seen
the famous Wenatchee and North va
kima districts grow from pulling M
fants 10 great giants ln the frut world
and his ewes many times looked over
barren country where now fields or
wheat every year. show the country
just how grateful they are for having
been made fruitful
why. this reclamation business has
lust started" be said. jOVially. And
we western men IN the senate are, as
John Paul Jones said. Just beginning Ia
fight You see. its this way" and
the laugh ia his eye died away into an
intense seriousness. III has been a
mntter Of educating the east. In that
country Of periodic railfal they Just
simply can't grasp what "a desert. Ia
our conception OF the term. really sig
niOes There is "a sort Of hazy idon
~ vast stretches OF sand terrible
storms. aud nerce heat
when they are told that so bushels
AZ grain 4 raiFe on these desert lands
the finest fruit Boa the world. ana as
many as four CROPS Of Alfalfa ID a year,
they Just look dared They cant or viii
not realize a. But the completion ~
more truns-contincntal railroads ar
fordlng better travelling facilities aud
visits from the east have been of Won
dorful help The exposition az seattle
this year has been ~ great value az an
educating factor. Those who visited
o. tell their friends az home and they
believe them"
How much % an appropriation viii
you ask from CongTesaf' hc was asked.
well, 4 can't say exactly There
are many things 10 consider yet But
we should have about $50 900 600. The
protests nov under way Will cost about
So 100 900 in the next year ana n Is hoat
tO have money 30 that the work will
not he hamperfd We have already
speIA s50.oooo0o aud expect 20 use that
much more
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