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Show "THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM HS A ROSE" F. H. Newell, chief of the reclamation service of the Federal geological survey, was a Salt Lake visitor yesterday. He Is on the way East from Nevada, where he has been Inspecting the Carson and Truckee rivers irrigation project He stopped off here to consult with Prof. Swendsen about the Strawberry valley project. The Nevada project alms at the reclamation recla-mation of 50,000 acres of valuable lands by the conservation of the waters of the Truckee and the Carson. The 'storing of the waters of the Carson river means the draining of Carson lake, but this will leave a fertile area for farming. The trouble with the people of the East, according to Mr. Newell, was that It was difficult to convince them that all the cultivated regions of the arid States were once deserts like that of Nevada. A drive over the alkali lands discourages them before they have seen the lands they Intended to settle upon and they are ready to turn back to the East simply for lack of technical knowledge. Prof. Newell says the authorities will soon open a Government camp on the Strawberry, and that steam or electricity electric-ity will be used. |