Arizona republican., 1913-08-04
Distinguished Educator and Agriculturist of President Wilson's Cabinet Plan ming Western Trip. A
 Swing Around the Circle.
LOOKING OVER
 DEPARTMENT WORK
Has Never Visited Salt River Valley or Roose- welt Dam and Is Greatly Interested In Their Sue cess.

cess.
 Hon. David Franklin Houston,
 secretary of agriculture in the Cab
 met .of Woodrow Wilson, president Iof the United States may be visitor lin Phoenix during Fair week. or
 about that time. This wa& the in
 formation brought to Phoenix yes
 terday by Hon. Harry $ Graves.
 chief forester of the United States. iwho with Arthur C. Rfngland, district forester for the Third district of which Arizona is q part, who were visitors in Phoenix yesterday, and who left this morning via Roosevelt for lGlobe and Fort Apache.
 Dr. Houston is planning to make swing around the circle some time in the fall, especially to visit the west and observe for hin self the activities of the department of lagriculture in the western states. l Having never 1een to Arizona and never having paid q visit to the Salt | River valley and the Roosevelt Dam. i and not being personally cogniZant with the wonderful degree of culti- ation that is reached under the irri- i gation projects in the west and southwest. he has expressed a de-
 sire to make a trip out in this direction.
 Inquiry as to probably the best time to visit this section evoked
 the answer Fair week, as all Arizona i is in Phoenix at that time and an  Iproducts at their best. It is there ] fore likely that the other university president that dWells in high places in the United States will make 1t point to come to this section during that time.
 1 It is quite likely that the Board Iof Trade will shortly draft a fis in vitation to the secretary to include this section in his itinerary. and
 Gov Hunt and Mayor Christy are
 sure to send invitations at the earli-
 lest moment.
 ! pr Houston is one If the most inn portant mAn in the cabinet of the lpresident of the United States. He
 holds the position held for sixteen years by Tamma Jim Wilson of Iowa. one Cf the largest departments 1 in the country The entire eXperi-
 
 on by the government in every state 1 in the union. is under the supervis- ion and direction of the secretary of tthe interior Tn this work Arizona has long taken leading part and has assisted the government in more
 ways than one. The experimental station for this state is located at Tucson at the university where is
 also the Agricultural college. Be cause of the fact that the director of the work in Arizona is head Of
 the experimental station of the gov ernment, and that this position praC-
 tically directs the experiment farms of the state it can be seen that interested in the work.
 l The weather bureau and the seed distribution as well as the forestry service and the plant and soil ex- lperiments. tFe animal husbandry. the biological survey, the good roads department, as well as the entomolo- gical activities of the government are also in this department. It can thus be readily seen that the de- Ipartment of agriculture touches Arizona very intimately All these things interest ArizOnans greatly in
 the probability of a visit from the distinguished chief of the department. Dr. Houston Is well EnOWn in Ari- lZona. and will be welcomed as only la friend can be welcomed by the
 hOspitable people of this section Be fore taking position he TOW holds. (which he lid very quietly and cooly,
 he was president If Washington
 university at St. Louis, one of the
 large schools of the southern DOT
 ton of the middle west. Prior to that
 he had a long residence in Texas as one of the leading educators and
 ablest public men that ever made Texas his home. He was president [ of the University of Texas, and also served term as president of the l Agricultural college of Texas at Bryan. where one of the largest , institutions of it's kind in the en- } tire country, where there are 1.O0C students every year getting tech nical education.
 There are many Texans in Arizona who attended school either at the ? university at Austin or at the Agri- cultural college while he was at the [ one or the other of these institu-
 tions All Texans will naturally joir l in the heartiest of receptions to Dr ,, Houston. The Texas society which t numbers several hundred Texans vii
 ltry to have Dr. Houston stay oyer