The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-06-28
representatives of Yakima
Valley Communities to
Meet in Sunnyside
DAVIS DISMISSAL
is CAUSE OF ALARM
Moulton Thinks Kennewick
will Lose Nothing by
Change Of Officials

N. NJ. Moulton, j. j. Rudkin and
A. R. Gardner will represent Kenne-
wick at meeting held in Sunnyside
tomorrow, the purpose of which is
to organize a Yakima Valley Recla-
nation league.
One of the objects of the proposed
league is to coordinate the efforts
Of the different communities of the
Yakima project and to define pol
Icy and a program for the construc-
ton of the uncompleted units. In
other words the conference hopes to
bring the communities into agree
ment as to what they want and to
outline campaign to forcibly pre-
sent those wants to the reclamation
service.
Alarm felt for the continued de-
velopment of the Yakima project be-
cause of the dismissal of Director A.
P Davis, is largely responsible for
the meeting. The general alarm,
however, is not shared by Mr.. Moul-
ton who does not believe the smaller
projects will be Disseminated against
By D. w. Davis, who becomes COM
missioner of irrigation July I.
In fact Mr.. Moulton is more hope
ful than ever that the reclamation
service will undertake the construc-
tion of the Kennewick unit at an ear
y date. He received this week a
lstter from the new commissioner
which leads him to believe that Mr..
Davis is willing to give fair consid-
efation to Kennewick's claims. "The
new Mr.. Davis writes just as en-
eouragingly as did the old Mr.. Da-
wis.," said Mr.. Moulton.
The Kennewick delegation will go
from Sunnyside to Yakima to confer
with Senator Wesley L. Jones and
Mr.. Moulton will leave that evening
for Portland where he and the recla-
nation attorney will complete the
draft of the, contract which the Ken
newick Irrigation District will re-
nest Commissioner Davis to approve.
In announcing tomorrow's meeting
the Yakima Daily Republic says:
Reclamation boosters of the Yak
ina Valley will, on Friday, plan an
aggressive campaign in favor of the
completion of the smaller reclama-
tion projects before any great amount
is appropriated for any such gigantic
work as the Columbia Basin. The Val
ley men will meet at noon at Plant
ers hotel at Sunnyside. The Suny-
side Commercial club has taken the
lead in planning for the conference,
which will attempt to devise some
means Of meeting the propaganda in
favor of the Columbia Basin which
is now flooding the nation, and its
president, A. j. Mock, will preside
when the session is called to order.
Organization of the Valley Recla-
nation league, to call attention on
large scale to the merits of the rec
lamation projects here which need
only a comparatively small invest
ment for their completion, is likely
to result from Fridays conference.
It is also considered certain that
Z TIE valley men will go on record as
appreciating the service given the
cause of reclamation by A. P. Davis
the director whose dismissal from the
service, after 35 years spent in lab
oring> for it, will take effect on July
!. 1t is quite possible that resolutions
asking DR.. Hubert Work, secretary
u the interior, to carry forward the
lolicies developed so successfully by
Nrector Davis, will be passed. The
pan of DR.. Work to have the proJec'
Wners take over the maintenance
nd operation of the projects as soor
construction is complete does moi
set with favor among most Of the
s3lma valley water users and some
'ectlon to this general plan, an
- cuaced in Yakima recently by Miles
son, field commissioner of recla
non' will perhaps be voiced.
Nj, ,ilnlte plans for reclamation
MY NY IN the Yakima valley, including
A.n 0eclsion as to which project
sls 0e developed next, will undoubt
'0'ne up for adoption. Kennewicl