The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-06-18
RECENT
HEARING
An Interesting Resume of
Recent Reclamation Af=
fair in Washington.
Recommendation Made At The Wat
er Users Conference Calculated to
Better Arid Land Farmers.

conference with the representa-
tives of the various water users as
soeiations was held by Secretary
Lane, beginning at noon on May
and continuing on the afternoon and
evening of most of the week days
until May II.
Written invitations or telegrams
were sent on April 20, by Secretary
Lane to each water users associa-
ton and to the western senator's and
representatives. as well as to other
persons who were interested In the
subject. Most of the water users
associations responded and were rep
resented. The daily attendance be-
gan with about 100 persons and
gradually diminished. as the various
projects were considered. Theee
we're taken up alphabetically by
states. and each delegate was given
ample opportunity to present oral
statements and file petitions or re-
quests.
stenographic records were kept of
the hearing resulting In 3.394 manu-
script pages. In addition a number
of documents were filed as exhibits,
equivalent to possibly 1000 pages
more. II Is probable that the state
ments will be printed as congress
sional document, An abstract has
been prepared, and neostyled copies
of II mailed to many of the field men
and others particularly interested.
In opening the Conference Mr.
Lane made the following statement.
Gentlemen YOU all kno wwhy this
conference is called. II is called
primarily to educate me. | wanted
10 get you here. | wanted TO hear
directly from you the story of your
adventure. wanted TO know wheth-
er or not that adventure was sue
esssful. wanted you to help me
IN administering this great trust in
tie interest OF all of us. Since
have been in this Office and long be-
fore, the air has been filled with
criticism and complaint How much
of IL is we'll founded, do not know,
and possibly no one of you can tell.
Therefore | thought it best In the
Interest OF this great service, which
is on the whole, the most important
work OF constructive character that
our people have ever undertaken,
that you should come face TO face
with those who have carried on those
projects for you and for the govern
mont. that you should have full OPP
rortunlty to succinetly. clearly and
specifically state the conditions Of
your project and your state of mind
teeause | recognize that in all these
propositions the state of mind is just
GO important as the state of the soil.
And II you can get out of your sys-
tens those things that are not true,
and II you can help me recognize
precisely what is true and help me to
do the right thing for you, a great
service can be done our country.
There is no limit to this confer
enee in point of time. ! want to know
nll that Is TO be known. | want to
know nothing whatever but fact. !
want you to say nothing excepting
those things that you can justify, and
that you feel you can be responsible
for. And do not hesitate TO be In
every way truthful | mean by that
not alone to say what you know to
be so, but to say all you know to be
so. No man connected with any one
of these projects, will ever suffer, so
long as | am here. by anything that
he says in this conference.
II regard myself here as a rep
resentative of the government that
has undertaken TO do something on
behalf of the American people, on
behalf particularly of that portion of
the country that we call the desert
my country, your country, the land
that lies beyond the Missouri IN
great part SO | want you to be
perfectly free, and | am going to
have the proceedings and the pro-
gram just as informal as possible
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