Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-09-16 | Page 13 | Roosevelt's Policies May Prove Problem

ROOSEVELT'S POLICIES MAY PROVE PROBLEM PUEBLO. Colo., Sept. 15. What is to bo done with the Roosevelt policies"? This Is one of the questions which. looms large before the delegates to tho eighteenth eight-eenth national Irrigation congress at Pueblo Pu-eblo September 26-30. " 'Conservation versus conservation' promises to become one of the major questions before the Irrigation congress," states Arthur Hooker, secretary of the congress. "There are conservationists and conservationists. At tne coming meeting meet-ing the lines promise to be sharply drawn between thoso who favor federal control of natural resources, and those who advocate ad-vocate state control and supervision of their development or prefer to leave this to private enterprise." At the last meeting of the house of governors Governor Sba froth of Colorado ably supported the states' rights doctrine, and this has many supporters In Colorado and the other public land slates. Judge Frank H. Short of California will speak on "Water Equities and the Control Con-trol of tho States Over Irrigation, Conservation Con-servation and the Development of Their Resources," and tbere will not lack supporters sup-porters on either side.