Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-01 | Page 14 | Reclamation Work Making Big Strides

RECLAMATION WORK MAKING BIG STRIDES Judge W. R. King, Chief Counsel for the Service, Talks of Its Activities. Juilge Will H. King, chief counsel for the United States reclamation service, Washington, D. C, arrived in this city yesterday in the interest of reclamation reclama-tion in Utah and adjoining states. Judge King is registered at the Hotel Utah. "The reclamation service," said Judge King, "in the past few years lias made wonderful strides. There was a time in the past when the people had an idea that the government was trying try-ing to put something over on them, all of winch has been eliminated. The le- o.nu in me gv ci uuicu i empiov are .lust as much servants of the people as the government, and "we are always trying to help the farmer, rather than block him. "In the irrigation projects the government gov-ernment advances to the people the money received from the sale of public lands, charges them no interest and has lengthened the time of repavment from ten years to twenty years, the government govern-ment is the building and construction agent of the people on all reclamation projects, and it is such a generous agent that it is always advancing the monev to carry out their ideas. I believe the time" has arrived when the people appreciate ap-preciate that it is not a case of the government against the peonlo on these projects, but rather that the government govern-ment is trying to help them as their agent and build up their projects which are to be the property of the people in the end."