Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-11
TALLMAN Will
DEAL DIRECT.
With SETTLER
Commissioner of General
Land Office Makes it
Plain He Wants Carey
Act Project Facts.
Strenuous Program Is Laid
Out Including Hearings at
Oakley, HOLSTER and Je-
rome for Next Week
Board Leaves Tonight.

In attempting to come to some logi-
cal conclusion by which the tangled
affairs Of the Twin Falls Oakley. the
Twin Falls Salmon river and the North
Side Twin Falls Carey act irrigation
projects may be Strengthened out, Clay
Tallman, commissioner of the general
land office, who arrived in Boise
Wednesday night. made it plain at a
conference with state land board mem
bers today, that he will take into con-
sideration the claims of all sides and
will In his personal investigation on
the prospects, deal direct with the set
tiers. He was perfectly frank in his
attitude and notified representatives
of the settlers, the companies and
members of the land board that II they
had anything to tell him to do so d.
rectiy and to meet him as frankly
ls he proposes to be.
ITINERARY LAID OUT.
Tho net result of the conference
with the board was the adoption OF
the following program or itinerary
which Commissioner Tallman, accom-
panied by members Of the land board
Carey Act Agent Wells and Engineer
Archibald stationed in Idaho for the
interior department. will carry out:
Leave Boise Friday morning at
$40 for Burnley; hold a meeting
at Oakley tract Monday, Is. for a
meeting at 2:S0 p. M, and Tues
day, Oct. 16; arrive at the Miner
dam on Wednesday morning at
o'clock. Go from Miner dam to
Hazelton for a meeting at IL o'clock.
Leave Hazelton at 2 o'clock for
Jerome, arriving at Jerome about
o'clock for a public meeting at
p. m, Wednesday, Oct. II. Hold
a meeting on Thursday morning.
Oct. is on the maintenance
charges of the company. Leave
Jerome at o'clock p. m. Thurs
day for Wendell and Bliss on the
third segregation.
FIRST TRIP OVER PROJECT.
Commissioner Tallman will, follow
Ing the completion of this strenuous
trip, board a west bound passenger
train Thursday Of next week and go
to Portland where he has been called
to investigate and settle the Southern
Pacific land grant cases which have
been pending for some time. He may
eminent oil field problems.
This will be my first trip over the
southern Idaho Carey act projects"
said Commissioner Tallman, although
| have been in Idaho and Boise before.
1t Is our desire to see II we cannot
solve some of the perplexing problems
that these projects present. l expect
to see conditions as they are on the
projects and for that reason have come
direct to Boise to confer with the land
board and later leave for a trip over
the projects"
CLEAR INSIGHT.
That Commissioner Tallman has
dear insight into tho land matters of
some Of the Carey act conditions as
they are to be found in Idaho was
clearly evident from his interrogation
Of those who appeared before the land
board today. He notified Mr. Stevens,
representing tho Water Users assoc
station on the North Side Twin Falls
project, ~ we'll as Manager Hall Of the
Salmon river project. that he wanted
TO talk with representatives of the set
tiers and the companies direct and to
hear from them their respective con-
tentions and wants; that II they had
any matters they wished to speak to
him about either in public or private he
was willing to hear them; that he
as possible but at the same time was
willing to give them a reasonable time
in which to make themselves clear.