Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
Six Great Irrigation Dis tricts of Service Repre- sented in Conference Here
 With Director Frederick H. Newell of Washington
MEETINGS MAY
 LAST ALL WEEK
Many Subjects Concerning Operation and Mainten- ance to Be Discussed; Will Be Presented in the Form of Papers


 Improvement of service and a CO., ordination of regulations and forms for irrigation administration are the two objects of the conference of irri- gation managers being held in Phoe- nix by members of the engineering forces of the six reclamation districts of the United States, with representa- tiVes of all the projects meeting with Director Frederick H. Newell, Super Vising Engineer Louis c. Hill and members of the local branch Of the service. Mir. Newell called together a number of men representing the six great divisions of the service of which
 he is head. He laid before them unique plan for discovering the best set of rules for project management, possible under present circumstances.
 The conference yesterday at the Wa
 ter Users building was the first of a set of meetings that now bid fair to run the entire week. Preparation and the assignment of topics for re- search and discussion were the prin- cipal things accomplished.
 Subjects, pertaining to the work of | the maintenance and operation de- partment of the reclamation service. and dealing with questions as diverse as the form of blanks for water re- ports and the future of irrigation works ownership, were assigned among the dozen or more engineers | by the director and as result yes 1 terday was spent in the offices of the l service here digging out the facts that are going into the papers to be pre- | scented before the meetings this week. l The purpose of tn whole business of
 meetings and conferences, here and | in other projects has been to develop i ] team work that will when in effect 1 put the maintenance and operation l department on a sure business-like l footing. MT NewA' has visited every project under his care, and has met with the members of the department 1 under fire in an effort to get things together for this, the final series of meetings at which representatives of 1 all the projects are present. The 1 whole work has been a boiling down 1 of detail so that only the broader | matters. which can be handled easily | at a general meeting, are now up for l consideration The conference last 1 Saturday afternoon was the last of 1 the general meetings, the local con- | ference of preparation at which I Messrs Hill. Fitch, Reed and others l were present. From among these I men the representatives at the final l meeting were chosen. Those who met yesterday and will be in the confer. | ences of the week are: Director l Frederick H Newell, Supervising En- | gineer Louis c. Hill of the southern 1 district, Assistant Engineer L. M. l Lawson of the southern district, IT, rigation Engineer A. N. Burch of the | Pacific district, Engineer c. D. Howe | of the northern district, Irrigation l Manager Fred D. Pyle of the Central | district Project Manager c. H. Bliss | of the Idaho district. Project Mana | ger R. K. Tiffany of the Washing 1 ton district Project Engineer F. l.. 1 Sellew of Yuma, c. $. Witbeck, ex- | aminer of the southern district Mer- can of the Truckee- Carson project. 1 and the local heads, Project Engineer c. H. Fitch and Engineer Howard $. | Reed charge of the department of maintenance and operation on the Salt river project
 Among the men above named are assigned the following topics. which will be worked up this week and read before the meetings. The final set of recommendations drawn from the findings of the conferees will be pub lished in pamphlet form for the use tof engineers and workers in the de- partment affected.
 | l. A statement of the principles
 underlying the management of irri- gation systems; namely. operation and maintenance including betterments. ? Draft of regulations designed for use of the project managers and their assistants, especially for canal lriders. including revision of blanks
 now in use.
 3. Draft of advice to water users, | giving elementary information con- corning the above noted matters and calling attention to certain principles Tor regulations which must be ob- served.
 A. Revision of statement and of forms for use classifying expenditures
 in operation and maintenance.
 5 Preparation of statement regard
 ing the necessity and character of
 crop statistics, stating the amount of
 detail required and time.1 method and cost of obtaining these.
 G. Forms for crop statistics (see J circulars of Oct IT and 24 and of
 statements of yearly expenditures and returns from an irrigated farm. l (Continued on Page Twelve)