The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
Usher FRIEND
/ Of IRRIGATION
ew Secretary of the Interior
to Appear on Platform at Ma
tional Congress in Chicago.
EXPECTED TO VISIT
THE WESTERN STATES
|iferS With Ballinger OH Con-
servation, but Is Not Cru
sader, Like PinchOt.

CHICAGO, March 17.-One of the
|rst delegations to wait upon Walter
4. Fisher, new secretary of the inter
AZ and the third member of Presi-
|ent Taft IS official family to be chosen
rom Chicago, Immediately he assumed
ctive charge of his new Office was
isited by commission of several
& his Chicago friends of years ac-
uaintanceship and formally in
lied to address one or more Of the
rssions Of the nineteenth national ir-
ration congress, which are to be held
ere late this year.
Plans to have Secretary Fisher as
ruest of the congress were outlined
M members Of the Chicago board of
6utrol Immediately after the news was
|ashed from Washington early in the
eek with the sudden message that
|ecretary Ballineer's successor was to
e the Chicsgoan of conservation and
raction fame,
That Mr.. Fisher will appear on the
makers platform of the congress is
racfically certainty. and 1t is not
nprobable that his address will be
nade on the closing day. December
. al which time the president himself
B to speak.
Aside from his natural interest in
d things pertaining to Chicago, the
ew secretary has a vast knowledge
q conservation matters. having for
ears made a study Of conservation in
n its phases, and is unusually well
osted in federal and state laws gov,
ming the control of water powers and
|aferwavs. These matters always
spe been of vital importance 10 irri-
2tion interests and few other subjects
ave stirred mp more discussion at the
onrress sessions in past years.
Having been invited already ny va
|ous boards OF trade and other com
'nnity orgs ni2atiors of the west to
sit that portion of the nation which
IS office is more directly concerned
|'tlL especially at this time, it IS not
nlikely that Secretary Fisher VIII ar
'nee early for n personal tour of IN
oPction throughout the west, north
|tst and southwest. On conservation
Ii Fisher swings far from the con
'nfions of his predecessor, but he IS
ct. like his friend OF years, Clifford
iBebot, former United States forester,
thb clus3nlnS y pc.
New Secretary is Practical.
Nr. Fisher has never been known
F. Visionary. but as a lawyer who,
< bis settlement Of Chicago 8 famous
Hction questions demonstrated. takes
Io dreams of other men and reduces
hem 10 something definite and Of prac
tsl use in everyday life. Conse.
Hently, il the new secretary does
Ike tour throughout the western
rrtion Of the country IL Will be sole
for the purpose Of gathering hard
Hcts for his use III whatever plans
may formulate 10 logically best pro-
iote the interests of the rapidly-d -devel-
ing west
Secretarv Fisher. who becomes in his
iF office an emphasized national fig
n because Of the Ballinger. Piuchot
<ntroversy, which placed the former
'1E tho last year. first became a char
TER Of general Importance outside of
s0lcago when he w5s made q member
= The railway securities commission. to
1ich office he also was appointed by
resident Taft. This commission re
tntly sat in Chicago and is now in
sion in New York. \ one time
~ Fisher was mentioned as pos
PIE appointee to the bench of the
snIted States supreme court.
That the new secretary will find ex-
'Iesident Roosevelt ever with him in
\ work is certa iuty for more rea.
iffs than one. Chief among these.
l1Tever. is the fact that Mr., Fisher
the father Of seven children.