Show PROJECTS RU SH LA lAND OFFICE i r CAPITAL BACKS A KS I PlAN T TO SPEED rO SETTLEMENT I. I f 1 1 I Field Service Faces Task of Investigating Scores s' s of Applications for Development Projects W ITH more than applications V VI affecting public lands of which nearly a hundred are different irrigation projects in Utah and Idaho the field service of the United States land office office of of- fice faces the greatest Investigation problem In its history Never before has there been such a plethora of Ir Irrigation Irrigation irrigation Ir- Ir enterprises started In the West Vest It Is declared In all probability we will be forced to increase our field corps to handle the great volume of work before us said Ralph S. S Kelley local chief of ot the service There are hundreds ot of applications on timber lands mineral minerai lands private and Carey act Irrigation tion projects Utah and Idaho State tate land determinations stock driveways and grazing permits all of which must be passed upon by this government ENGINEERS AT WORK We Va have five engineers working worlIng on the irrigation projects constantly each project requiring complete investigation tion as to water supply and plans for distribution This force torce of men will doubtless b be Increased There are more irrigation projects afoot at it t present with real financial backing than ever before more bonafide bonafide bonafide bona- bona fide propositions as distinguished from some of the fake or promotion schemes that were common a few years ears ago It shows a remarkably healthy movement movement movement move move- ment people to the land and Is Isa Isa Isa a true barometer of the rapid settling of the West MILLION ACRES INVOLVED These projects range from 1000 to acres s In extent and although I 1 have never figured It out I believe Itis Itis it itis is not too much to say that a million acres are Mr Kelley explained that on account of the heavy demands made upon his department all summer In tn conducting I the fight against forest fires in Idaho work In other lines tines had necessarily fallen fallen fallen fal fal- fal- fal len behind to some extent This fight is by no means over since Tuesdays Tuesday's reports from the Thunder mountain country were to the effect that two big fires have broken out again and are sweeping the mountains before a high wind It has been necessary to dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch seventy-five seventy men to the moun moun- No reports were received from the front today |