Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-10-08 | Page 1 | Reclamation Work in Idaho Probed by Senate Committee

RECLAMATION WORK IN PROBED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Farm Farmers rs Object to Doing Part of th the WorK Wont at Own Expense Special SpecIa to The Telegram BURLEY HURLEY Ida Ida Oct 8 Senators S.-Senators Senators Borah Bomb of Idaho Yar cn of oC Wyoming W and Sutherland Sutherland erland of Utah are here In the course of ofa a n most Important ml mission lon on which they wore were sent ent b by the United States 8 senate The senators were appointed as a special r committee to look Into the complaints rc registered against th the r reclamation serIce ser set vice Ice as ae Its projects have been worked 1 out In tho the w west st st. t Thc They have already taken n a look Into the reclamation projects at and Rupert Ru Ru- pert Ida and are spending today In this town visiting tho the project find listening to to the objections objection raised d by soot of the men who oho have o taken or would like to take up upland upland land under th the ditches Tonight ht they will be he at a banquet banquot at the BurIe Bur Bur- Icy Ie hotel Tomorrow the party will Investigate a to the Twin Falls project with a n similar Idea In iii view While the senators have hwo not given gl out their opinion on tho the Burley DurIe project thc they are quoted this morning as na having said that due du credit had not been given Riven to the farmers under the and Rupert projects b by liy tho the reclamation service ser Th y yI I that t the tho farmers r had put in In lateral ditches and and bridges at al their own expense when tho the f should hould have been charged 1 up tip to the project