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Show I HECpil 5 Two Westerners at Govern-f Govern-f i crs Conference Outline . Needs for Projects. Say Federal Government Is t Only Agency to Provide ; ' Ways and Means. While the mntter of the nubile domain, present ftd to tho governors by Governor O A. Uarrazolo of New Mexico, has held the center of the stage amons tho d is- :. tlnctly western problems connected with ;; the conference now In .sons ion, another .': phase of public development in tho west y. which has been receiving tho closo attention at-tention of tho executives has been the reclamation question. ' In practically all the eleven arid west- . ern states thero am now projected and planned a number of projects which would put under Irrigation vast tracts of at Y preeent unproductive land. There are 1 present for the conference two leaders of the modern tendency in reclamation proj- ects that nro looking to federal direction of the projects. U. S. Only Agency. i Those men are Douglas Rosa, formerly . a supervising engineer of the reclamation 1 norvice, and Major Fred W. Hoss, secre-tary secre-tary of the- Idaho Reclamation association. jj The former is a member of the California Califor-nia irrigation board. f- In speaking of the reclamation projects yesterday, Mr. Ross paid: "The time has ended when It Is pos- Bible for prlvn tc Individuals or corpora - tionfl to successfully work out and fi-jj fi-jj nance the hugo plana for reclamation and 1 tho storage of water which must be con- eummated In the west, If there Is to be any groat new acreage opened to cultivation. culti-vation. The federal government is the X only agency which has the machinery and f the ability to provide finances that are 6 necessary to tho successful operation of reclamation projects on largo scales. i To Coordinate Efforts. u "It Is our hope to form an organization X. of all the western states interested in reclamation with a view to coordinating " the efforts of ail to the common end, J. which is the storage of water and the reclaiming of arid land." .Major Reed has been active in the rec-1 rec-1 lamation projects in Idaho, and since the U beginning of the Idaho Reclamation asso-si asso-si ciation he lias built up a membership of more than 11,000 Idahoans alone who seek net ion on some of the great projected ! reclamation opportunities. |