Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-27
DR.. MEAD
HERE ON
survey
Reclamation Head Will
\ Study Plans For All
e American Canal.
USING AIRPLA N E
Will Address Open Air
Mass Meeting in This
City Friday.

Arriving at the Imperial airport
late yesterday afternoon in tri.
motored Fokker, DIR. Elwood Mead,
his wife and party proceeded in,
mediately to the Barbara Worth
hotel where they spent the night.
Early this morning the party took
off for an air tour of Yuma and
the Palo Verde Canyon returning
in about two hours and then en-
barking by auto for the Arizona
city.
They were accompanied in motors
to Yuma by w. o. Blair, G. l..
! Ciilders, NJ. J. Dowd and Ira Aten
: of the Imperial Irrigation District.
The party was scheduled to lunch
with the Yuma kiwanis club this
noon and then make trip of in
spection of that section of the
lower basin irrigation DEVELOPMENT.
The party will also spend tomor-
row in and adjacent to Yuma, re-
turning to FL Centre Friday night
and spending Saturday in this Sec
tion. Saturday night DIR. Mead will
make an address at mass meeting
TO be held at the city park.
X. +. Walters, the engineer who
will build the dam, one of the big
gest assignments an engineer has
ever been given, will also make a
short address at the meeting follow
, cd by his assistant, Consulting En-
gineer l., G.. Hill.
While l.. n. Mcclellan, the cleo
trical engineer in the party is not
scheduled at present to make a
talk, il is thought likely he will be
asked to speak on the power situa-
tion as related to the dam.
The Mead party took but two
hours to fly here from Los Angeles
yesterday, the huge Fokker work
ing splendidly. The machine, the
property of the Rio Grande Oil Com
pany, was placed at the disposal of
DR.. Mead by officials of the com.
pany while the chief of the U. s.
reclamation service and his party
are in California.
Mrs. Mead Enjoys Trip
Mrs. Mead who is 20 years Of age
A,enjoyed the trip more than any of
the group, she said last night. "'The
perspective from IA plane is such
that it fills me with ave. Mrs.
Mead exclaimed when she alighte6
from the ship.
"And / was simply astounded d
when we arrived over Imperia!
Valley, so green and beautiful
and rather warm when one sets
foot on terra firma," she added.
'Dr. Mead is standing this trip
rather well despite a slight illness
and of course | have enjoyed every
minute of it,
The reclamation chief is II years
old and there has been some un.
easiness as to his ability to with.
stand siege of hot weather such
as was experienced here recently.
Fortunately it has cooled off and
the chief looked in excellent health
yesterday and this morning.
Although the proposed banquet
-of Saturday night has been unof-
ficially called off, it is expected,
according to district officials, tina:
if the dinner is not scheduled, an
informal affair will be held here
before the mass meeting at which
many prominent citizens of the val
ley are expected to attend.
LOS ANGELES, June %. W.p)-
DR.. Elwood Mead, U. S. commission.
er Of reclamation, and his staff of
government engineers were in the
Imperial Valley today acquaintiag
themselves with water and power
needs of that vicinity which will be
filled by construction of Boulder
dam and the all-American canal
Officials of the Imperial Irriga
tion District, by whom the Swing
johnson bill governing construction
lof the. Boulder project originally
ewas sponsored, directed DR.. Mead s
attention to various problems to be
faced by builders Of the proposed
canal and discussed means of OBJ
tanning the highest degree of CO.
operation between the government
and local interests.
DIR. Mead already has personally
directed survey Of the all-Amcri-
can project, but felt that phases
relat,a to power and water develop
ed since that time required his
presence in conferences with Off
cials there.
\ The commissioner left here by
= Slane late yesterday after max
'v6she pleasing statement that
+ Kl an unpleasant or discouraging
II" Aent developed during his dis
nylons with Los Angeles and
w sFvada power interests concerning