Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-07
WHAT THE IDAHO RECLAMA-
TION ASSOCIATION HAS
ACCOMPLISHED SINCE
FEB. q. 1913.
TT HAS SET THE FORCES IN
MOTION

MO1ION
You will recall that in the winter
Of 1e18-19 everybody was thinking
how the world would ever recover from
the effects of the war and how 1t
would meet the reconstruction and
readjustment problems. The war in
dustries suddenly stopped and dis
charged tremendous numbers of labor
ers and soldiers would soon be re-
turning from Europe and from the
training camps and jobs must be pro-
vided. The world was in chaos and
husiness was cropping about largely
in the dark, meeting emergecies as best
If could: the country was almost par
allied by the thought of the tremen-
dous Indebtedness that would have to
he maid: irrigation development was
at standstill. not a dollar could be
eecured and those who in the past
bad invested in irrigation bonds had
euffered great losses. The irrigation
foiI,,res and the defaults in yayment
of nrincipal and interest of irrigatio
securities had discredited not only
Idaho but the entire West in financial
centers in which private capital might
he found. The government indebted
nos was so great that it seemed i'm
possible to bet the attention of Con-
GROSS to maze further appropriations
for reclamation, hence when the out
look for irrigation development in
Idaho at its very darkest. the Idaho
Reclamation Association was organ
lied
This organization at once started
campaign of publicity for several
hundred millions of dollars of federal
aDpiopriation for reclamation it urged
and advocated through the press and
in public meetings the necessity OF
the Western States being united in
their demands on congress and that IN
order to make the campaign enectlVe,
those who went to washington should
he in positioh to speak for all tne
arid states. and that the senators ana
congressmen of the West should stand
together on a federal policy recognlz- /
ing the necessity for the reclamation
of the West We urged the formation
of organizations similar to the Idaho
Association in all the Western States
and that such associations should then
send delegates to the general western
ctates Association which in turn
hould determine and carry on such /
campaign for reclamation as to focus
the attention of Congress and the East
on the West and while reclamation
was the KEYNOTE. the advertising whlch /
the West would get from this campaign ,
would help in every industry.
Note the changes that have taken
n1ace since the Idaho Irrigation Asso-
tion was organized Everybody IN
idaho is talking irrigation and looking
forward to great development. Tne
whole Snake River Valleye to great
da,,elonment. The Americana Falls
reservoir. the Fall River reservoir the
va1Iowstone diversion. the Bruneau
nroiect the Boise -Sunnyside prelect'
and the Black Canyon. The latter IS
NOW almost a certainty owing to a
ro,,ivaI of interest by the Emmett lrrl-
.;or District and the building OF the
Black Canyon dam. ~.
W. ,,,oad the calling of the West
orr states Conference at Salt Lake anu
,ia tho preliminary expenses for can-
80 ,hat conference which lead to the
o,oa nization of the Western states
socistion has attracted attention III
A Association. The campaign OF our as
othar western states and ha resul {
=, tbe formation of the North West
ar,, .ea pue and in the Colorado Basin '
,,,.o;aot. n has led to the appointment [
~ committees to revise and renfooei
A., ;rr,ootion bonding law so that pri-
,,ot 10 cepital may be induced to ana {
where the pjarties to not wan, 10 "''''
for federal appropriation.
Our campaign directly and lnolrecuS
in bringing for the first time
AZ ~
oriation Committee of the House Oh {
= panrasentatives to the West for the I
a1amination of what irrigation. has 9
lone and what 1t may accorhPiisn III" 7
government ala. G
rha Association started a campaign =
-. western man for Secretary OF =
~ T,,+arior and It has been taken up q
40 the entire west, and the East now 4
,Sroades our demand. The only ques- a
ion is TO agree an the man. In we" f
II what has been accomplished ana 'iie t.
that the Association has ar II
,used. not only in irrigation genera'iF f
mt in specific projects in ldaho anu A
n the improvement of the laws anu -, o
Idvertising the West, the pubic sh"uio
support it as an investment as II I
,enef,ts not only the individual sub
criber but his neighbors and friehos
nd the people of the State and OF the
Vest. :.
If you want the Idaho Reclamation Is
ssociation to be a power for ldahos St
development. an institution "of the s.
eople. by the people. for the people II
tand by us in our work and send your e
: 90 for 1921 membership to the Idaho n
reclamation Association. Box So b.
,ocatelIo. Idaho. on receipt of this let al
er. t'
Yours for Idaho's development.
IDAHO RECLAMATION ASSN. W
Fred r. Reed. Managing Director te