| Show 0 EXPERT SPEAK 1 FRE FREDERICK D E RI CK II ir MR LY NE NEWELL president ent of the American Association of Engineers Engineers En En- pincers who ho is is organizing a Salt Lake chapter 5 I J DR F. F H. H NEWELL EXPLAINS Y YANK ANI LAND MEASURES Delay in n Congress Proves Costly to Smoot- Smoot Mon Smoot-Mon- londell lon lon- dell deli Bill BillIt It is doubtful whether cr tho the Smoot- Smoot Mondell bill as ns now proposed will pass Congress Last winter r the bill bUI would woul 1 have gone over with a big majority but the delay has been c costly said Dr Frederick II H. Newell Oe president of the Am American Association o of Engineers ers and one of oC the tho foremost authorities on oem reclamation In the tho United States Slates Dr Newell arrived In fn Salt Lake yesterday yesterday yes yes- to attend aUen 1 tho the first conference ot the Salt L Lake ke chapter of or tho the association association tion of oC which he is president Dr Newell explained at length t-h-e t difference nce between tho the three kinds of or soldier settlement bills no now being considered con con- 51 ered by Congress about thirty In all he said Three c Kinds Kind of Bills IIII Tho TIme first of or the tho three sets liels of or bills Is favored by the Interior d department and provides for or reclamation and settlement settlement set set- b by returned tJ service m men n o of new lands land said Dr Newell The second proposal before Congress Is fa favored favored fa- fa cored b by the agricultural department nt and provides for Cor soldier settlement ment on partly Improved proven lands which have been only partly parth appropriated The Thc third plan Is called an Infiltration tion plan and has the support of ot th the department of oC labor and provides pro money to be used In assisting returned I soldiers and who want to settle on lands He lie would not commit himself on tho the Plan that he ho favors but went on to say May that men Who have no inclination to towards towards to- to wards farming should l not be led to beli believe belive be be- li live lieve ve that the government Is giving I Ithem them something for Cor nothing lie said that only men who have lived on farms arms or woo who have l a desire to go goon goon 0 on farms should be encouraged ed that to present too rosy a future for the pioneer plo plo- neer Is dangerous at best he ho con con- eluded Father r of Reclamation Dr Newell was chief engineer of the United States s reclamation department depart depart- ment meat from 19 1907 1902 2 1901 and director of reclamation 1907 1914 Ho lIe is known 1 as the father ather of or the reclamation movement movement movement move move- ment In this c country Among Among- the hl big projects he has supervised are arc tho the Roosevelt dam darn In Arizona and the reclamation of or th t Imperial valley Dr Newell said last night that that he Is particularly pa Interested in Utah and was the leading figure In the tho building of the Strawberry valley work He went over the project yest yesterday with J. J L. L Lytel of the government reclamation recia- recia mation malion service H Hp said that the progress I ress rss of or the farmers on the Spanish 1 ork i-ork ork b bench was 5 very ry encouraging I J nt ot Illinois 1 I A ILL IL L ent ur is head of or the civil en engineering department of ot tho the I University o of Illinois His tour of oC in interesting In- In t. t th the engineers of or the tho country in his organization will take him from Boston to Los Angeles les In Salt Lake Jake ho Is in the moving n figure of or the tho local chapter or of f which R R. B n. V Ketchum dean of oC the University ty of C Utah is 18 temporary chai chairman rm an In a lecture tonight Dr eWell eWell will talk on the th Growth of or l' l Engineering Organization Or It Is announced announce 1 hat that the ll c Pub pUblic c Is 19 invited to the meetinG meeting which will be held In the Assembly hall At x wh the mc yesterday yester- yester da day W r X w V Dc e Berard We western tern editor i of ot n the t News Record RecordS mado mad a short talk lL it Armstrong assist assist- chic n r. r or the Un Union ton Pacific and hI H. H C. C Go Goodrich engineer of oC the thc h Utah T Copper r company made speeches Dr Newell II spoke oke brief lv |
