Arizona republican., 1913-08-26
ENGINEER REED
 QUITS U.S.R.S.
After Eight Years of Hard and Faithful Work Popu- lar Head of Operation and Maintenance De partment RetireS.

Engineer Howard s. Reed in charge of the operation and main | tenance of the canals in the Salt river irrigation project has resigned to take effect immediately, and yes terday he received sanction from the secretary of the interior to sever his connection with the U. $. govern ment. MT. Reed has not yet an nounced what he will do, insisting that the first thing is to take well merited rest from his years of stress and toll, but it is thought that after that he will devote himself to the private practice of engineering, it being a well known fact that he is one of the most expert engineers in this valley.
 Howard $. Reed is almost too well known to every man, woman and child in the Salt River valley to need any statement, but at this time it is not amiSS to tell of the few things he has been an dthe few things that he has done and done well since his residence here. For fifteen continuously with the government service. At first he was with the United States geological survey, and when that was taken under the wing of the reclamation service Reed went with it. Eight years ago he came to Phoenix as engineer in charge of operation and mainten- ance and he has been here ever since. In all the fifteen years he has been in the service he has had but three vacations
 Since being placed in charge of the local project operations he has been upon the job both early and late. No detail was too small to attract his attention and no task too great for him to tackle. He has put more than the supposed allotted eight hours a day upon his work every day since he came here yet in spite of that has found time to attend to many other important social and civic mat terS.
 MT. Reed was president of the Ari- zona Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a mem Der of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has been a member of the board of directors of the Arizona club for two years; he is one of the incorporators of and a member of the board of directors as well as secre- tary of the Phoenix Country club is secretary of the Maricopa County society for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, and a member of the vestry of the Episcopal church.
 When MT. Read first came here, the reclamation service had control of but one canal, now it has grown to a control of TAI miles of canals. Then but few thousands of acres of land were directly under the project and served by water from the pro ject through the reclamation service and now water is daily delivered if wanted to 17O,OOO acres under the project.
 The resignation of such valuable man will come as q distinct sur prise and cause of regret to the hundreds of farmers whom he has served so faithfully in the eight years that he has been in Phoenix. Tn the language of the baseball fan, Engineer Reed had plenty of pep was a tireless worker. genial com panion and all round good fellow. To the newspaper men who have been daily callers at his office he will be grievousIy missed. for he was always ready to receive them and talk with them about the matters of import to the farmers of the valley and the conditions that they had to face in developing the Salt River valley. His successor on the job has not yet been announced