The San Francisco call., 1910-10-10
EASTERN BANKERS
VIEW RECLAMATION
Visitors Put in Strenuous Day
Inspecting Irrigation
Projects
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

WILLOWS, Oct 9-The eastern
bankers. who are inspecting the Kuhn
irrigation projects in Glenn, Colusa and
Sacramento counties. spent one of the
most strenuous days on record since
they left their homes in the east for
the Los Angeles convention of the
American bankers association. 1t has
oeen speed all day. The party was
awakened at Colusa Junction at 8
O'Clock this morning and reached this
place soon after 5 o. m, travelling
more than $50 miles by automobile and
seeing more than 100000 acres of the
richest land in California during the
day.
From Colusa Junction a visit was
made to the town of Maxwell, where
the Kuhn project is in its infancy. 1t
is predicted that within a year, when
the water has been turned on In the
vicinity of Maxwell, that the popula-
ton of that place will be more than
doubled.
RECLAMATION VIEWED
visit was then made to Colusa,
which is also within the Kuhn district.
AT Colusa the party were shown about
by B. II. Burton, president of the
Colusa county bank, and Tenant Har-
the members of the party In the ma
chimes passed nothing but land that is
being reclaimed by ]. S. and w. S.
Kuhn. Fentress Hill, general resid ent
manager of the Sacramento valley irri-
CATION company, which is the corporate
name of the Kuhn project; E. w. Ross.
chief engineer of the project, and A. B.
MacCaughey, western manager of the
company, took the party out of the
M Do
Horsburgh of the Southern Pacific, and
tonight there was much discussion as
to which was the better host.
At Hamilton, Glenn county, where the
stop was made at the Shotover hotel
this afternoon for luncheon, Ralph Van
Vachten, vice president of the CONNER
cial Continental national bank of Chi
cago, the second largest banking insti-
tuition in the United States, made him
self toastmaster. and in a few minutes
of speech making the fnanciers told
what they thought OF the project and
of the Southern Pacific company.
GATHERS FERTILE DUST
Van Vachten, who knows as much
about wet and dry farming as does a
farmer with 80 years experience,
opened his remarks by saying that he
was going TO buy at least 30 acres and
probably much more. He said that he
had gathered dust while in the automo-
bile. but that ii was the most fertile dust
he had ever gathered His praise for
northern California AMI California in
general choked Horsburgh when the
latter was called upon to speak. Hors-
burgh was willing to place Uan
vachten in his place with the Southern
Pacific.
you have visited us on our wash
day." was the way Frank Miller of
Riverside expressed himself after
hearing several remarks about dust
IF you want to see us at our best
come when we are prepared. l am not
a betting man, but l am willing to
wager that in a year from now you
can find no dust in this part of Cali
fornia."
BANKERS WILL SETTLE IN STATE
j. H. Pullicher, cashier of the Mar
shall e. Insley bank of Milwaukee, also
gave evidence of intention to settle in
California. 1t appears that Glenn,
Colusa and Sacramento counties will
soon 'be composed entirely of bankers
Addresses were also made by w. G.
Patterson, president of the First ma
tional bank of Pasadena; James Hors-
burgh Jr., c. Nick. Lloyd, president of
the Peoples savings bank OF Pittsburg,
and a. B. McCaughey. The party left
Willows at o'clock tonight and before
reaching San Francisco tomorrow even
ing will visit other parts of the Sacra-
ma 70 iv, he saJ