Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-17 | Page 9 | [Illegible] Pleased with Irrigation Project

- JGARFIELD PLEASED WITH IRRIGATION PROJECT ,!!!JSpeclaI to The Trlbuno ...BURLET. Ida., July IS, A dlstin-firiilshed dlstin-firiilshed party of government officials, .Including Secretary of the Interior James )ecliR.- Garfield, Director Newell of the reclamation recla-mation service, Morris Blen, chief legal flggjadvlscr of tlie reclamation service; Chief id (Engineer A. P. Davis of the reclamation ?Bervlce. and District Engineer W. II. Sanders, in charge of tho government .'reclamation work in Idaho, visited Burley .last evening, Secretary Garfield and Dl-jjffl' Dl-jjffl' 3ector Newell addressing a large crowd, Ult' twhlch assembled In the Mormon meeting ' Ihouse. & The party only remained in Burlov a JlmMcouple of hours and departed in the night JillWon a special train for Twin Falls, where they will spend a day or two looking over tho big project. 18SJ. Wednesday the party was driven In is carriages over the south side project to x (o inspect the canals and the pumping svs-nt svs-nt diem' wnlcr hv.e Just been completed, ... Secretary Garfield expressed himself as j cTrfilshly pleased with the rapid dovelop-a dovelop-a nttment of the tract, and especially with the 1 'numplng system, which has been built py Ihfi settlers, working in co-operation with the reclamation service, in KPi-k telegram was received bv- Secretary ,u 1 Garfield Tuesday afternoon Informing him avlnptlmt the contract for the pumping and tion Electrical machinery for the south sldo 'or rirojeet had been awarded, to be ready .for delivery within four months. D E ,,mtl Burley. general passenger agent of "the p"rl,pregon Short Lino, joined the partv at '.Campa and accompanied them to Twin Interal,s'