Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-03 | Page 1 | Fisher Defends Reclamation of Western States

FISHER DEFENDS RECLAMATION II TION OF WESTERN ESTERN STATES t t Secretary of I Interior nt r or Replies to Attack of oJ Bureau Chief W ASI Feb vv Fisher In defense of or the gp government govern govern- mont ment Irrigation work and in rep reply to the tho ho recent declaration ration before a House committee b by Dr B. B T. T chief of crt the bureau of ot plant Industry that there thre has never been nn any long continued continued con- con s successful Irrigation agriculture III n an arid region anywhere ln hero in In tho the world has written to Chairman Moss I ss of ot the committee denying Dr Gallo Gallo- ways was assertion He lIe also diso has haa written to o Secretary Wilson asking him to prepare pre- pre pare are an official statement to show the necessity of or Irrigation its growth In n tho the United States and the practical results not only in crop COl productions but ut In building up a de desirable citizenship citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- ship in the tho remote portions of ot thew tho the w west Cs t. t Doctor Galloways Galloway's statement says sas Secretary Fisher has hils resulted In much unfavorable comment some of or It Intimating Intimating Inti Inti- mating that the governments government's investment In reclamation work has been unwise The tar asserts that up to date there thelo are arc no which should occasion alarm for the permanent permanent perma porma- nent futura of tho the land reclaimed or oror for or the continued prosperity of ot the tho people who have ha settled upon it