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Show ffl!l5IT TOM OHO Secretary of Interior Fills Host of Speaking Engagements; Engage-ments; Holds Control of Water To 15e Main Factor. SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4 (UP)--Whisked from one city to another. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior, in-terior, today was the vortex of a whirlpool of public activity activ-ity throughout the state. Tuesday, Dr. Wilbur ad- diesicd 300 business nun at Og-den; Og-den; today he spoke before the Uiwlah Basin Industrial conference; confer-ence; and tonight he will talk at a Salt Lake dinner given in his honor. hon-or. Thursday morning, he will attend at-tend a breakfast to which various slate officials have been invited. He is expected to address the Legion Le-gion meet in Provo, Saturday. Slate Jurisdiction Although reluctant to make any definite statements, the secretary said prospects for immediate construction con-struction of Boulder dam were very good. He added that contracts ! for the construction of a 2S-mile railroad from Las Vegas to the Boulder dam site had been let, but said there were many details to be ironed out yet. Without water, he told Ogden business men Tuesday, Utah and other western states would be Inst. And so it is that sensible control and jurisdiction of water and wa-. wa-. tersheds is the biggest problem of the west today. He held that the ideat method of control on public lands was state jurisdiction. He believed the logical logi-cal system was to repose authority In the hands of states and to remove re-move the authority ot a distant federal government. In former years, Dr. Wilbur pointed out, the solution of irrigation irriga-tion and watershed control problems prob-lems was an individual problem of lO-acre and 70-acie farms; today it is a community and even a statewide state-wide problem. He viewed the task of solving such problems on western farm lands as "a new field of pioneering." Dr. Wilbur complimented the i fitate on its able congressional I delegation. He mentioned in particular, par-ticular, Senator Smoot. whose name was synonymous with Utah in the national capital, and Congressman Con-gressman Don Cotton, who had previously remarked humorously that he and Dr. Wilbur "didn't always al-ways agree." j Brief addresses were given by W. R. Wallace and" Dr. Richard R. Lyman, members of the water storage commissiun, and Senator Smoot. |