Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-28
PASSAGE OF NEWLANOS RIVER
BILL IS STRONGLY URGED

Los ANGELES, Oct. 2S-George H.
Maxwell, to whose name must be add
ed these titles-executive director of
the national reclamation association,
the flood commission of Pittsburg, the
Louisiana reclamation club, and river
regulation commission of Stockton-is
in Los Angeles. a guest at the West
minister hotel, with his wife and
daughter.
AT the last session of the national
irrigation congress, recently held at
salt Lake City, Mr.. Maxwell was ap-
pointed delegate representing the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce, the
city of Los Angeles and the county.
He also represented the city of New
Orleans. by an appointment from the
mayor of that city.
1t is in New Orleans Mr. Maxwell
has passed the greater part of his time
since last January, engaged in the
work of organizing the national rec
lamation association.
Since leaving New Orleans he has
addressed the commercial bodies of
Cairo, Ill, the Mississippi valley I'm
provement association, the Chicago As
sociation of Commerce, the interstate
levee convention at Memphis, the an
nual meeting of the Lakes to the Gulf
Deep Waterway association at Little
Rock, Ark, and the national irrigation
congress at Salt Lake City.
Mr. Maxwell came from Stockton to
Los Angeles.
His purpose in coming here at this
time is to report progress to the bod
les by which he was appointed a dele
gate to the national irrigation con-
gress at Salt Lake City and to confer
with c. B. Boothe, president, and other
leading members of the national irrl-
CATION association, as to the plans OF
that association to expedite the pass
age of the Newlands river regulation
bill.
Mr.. Maxwell addressed the directors
of the chamber of commerce, and while
here will confer with the mayor and
the chairman of the board of super
risors.
Mr.. Maxwell expects to return to
stockton tomorrow to aid in the work
OF the river regulation commission of
stockton in organizing northern Cali
fornia. He will then return to New
Orleans to take part in convention
TO be held there to urge the passage
of the Newlands bill at the next ses-
sion of congress.
The bill now provides merely for an
equitable division of the total appro-
priation Of $500, 600, 900 between the diff
ferent river systems of the country.
The people of the Mississippi val
ley desire an amendment definitely
setting apart S1Oo,O0O,000 of this
amount for the lower Mississippi val
ley.
Mr.. Maxwell believes this Will be
done and suggests that California, the
entire state, and all the commercial in
terests Of the state, both in San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, should get into
action to secure S50.000,0OO for the
Sacramento and san Joaquin valleys,
and S5O,O0O0OO for the Colorado river.
He says there is doubt that this
can be accomplished if the interests
of the territory specially benefited will
take hold in the same active way and
by the same effective methods that
were so successful when the Los Ang-
eIes chamber of commerce and the bus
mess men of this city secured the pas
sage Of the national irrigation act
gears ago, under which the federal
government already has expended more
than SIS. 900 900 in the development of
the West