The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-02-13
RECLAMATION SERVICE
DECLARED NO GOOD
HoDsE COMMITTEE CHARGES
INSTRUMENTATION AND
GENERAL iNEFFlclENcY.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Charges
of Incompetence an Observation-Disclosures
Of the reclamation service are made
and an appropriation Of $4,000 Is re-
quested for congressional inquiry
that will deal broadly with reclama
ton projects In a report which was
sent to the house by the committee on
interior department expenditures.
The report recommends during the
tendency of the proposed inquiry the
removal from office" of Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Samuel
Adams and r. H. Newell and l.. c.
Hill, director and supervising engin-
Ger. respectively. Of the reclamation
service
Interior department officials fatty
denied the allegations in the printed
report.
Ap% ANPoAN AiiII bCc tIldl ANCWCll hliu
his associates" Disseminated against
the farmers and that the corporations
operating the canals and the bond
holders thereof alone received atten-
tion from them in the Salt River pro-
ject." It is alleged that as the reclaim
alton act provides that only the esti-
matde cost OF construction may be re-
covered by the government and the es-
Inmates Of the secretary of the inter-
Tor were $3,s5o,ooo and the expcndi-
lures to date have been $1O,547,396,
the governments loss on this project
appears to be $G,747,396.
Denial From Newell.
THE statement that the govern
ment will lose 100000 on the Salt
river project is absurd" declared d.
RECTOR Newell last night. ut will col
lect every dollar it has invested there
If the present law is not changed. AS
FOR the charges against reclamation
officials, any man mentioned will
welcome investigation by honest and
competent men. Not one charge has
been made in this report but can be
refuted absolutely. Probably no bur-
eau has been investigated oftener. It's
structures are among the great works
of our time. its efficiency and econ
omy Of administration has received
the praise Of it's investigators. 1t is
a poor reward for faithful performance
of duty to be compelled to submit to
an attack so partisan and unfair as
contained in this report which bears
no signature. It looks like another
adroit attack on conservation. the kind
its friends expect with every change Of
administration. The report is a ium-
bic of half-truths and whole mis-
statements"
Court Proceedings Asked.
The report recommends equity pro-
'VV"hSo W cancer Inc government
contract with the Pacific Gas & Elec-
trio company "hy which this corpora
ton IS given monopoly Of the pow
or developed n. the Roosevelt dam and |
to institute criminal proceedings ac-
cording to its Judgment"
Invasion of the water rights Of the
Pima and Maricopa Indians in Arr
zona and the despoiling Of their farms
in of bi gtracts by the Ari-
IONA Canal company and other con-
Germs stock juggling operations of
canal promoters that caused many
farmers to pay several times over for
every canal delivering them water:
100000 expenditure by the reclama-
ion service in the ella river water
trea against the protest of the Indians
n work disastrous to the Indians and
only to land grabbcrs." and
he resignation Of w. II. Code. irriga-
ion engineer Of the Indian bureau. as
oon as 1t became known the commit
ee was to investigate matters are {
Imong the things charged In the re- I
'ort. Code formerly had been irriga-
ion engineer for A. J. Chandler. who
he committee says, according to tes- !
imony before us, owned tract OF /,
10000 acres and defrauded the gov ,
rnment Of 1t by dummy entries.''