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Show pahoizd lips ' Or HilTURE WET Engineers cf Reclamation Service in Session Here, Tell DiOrclties . Encozm-I Encozm-I tered in Arid Lands. r-;- -7 . ' Telling their troubles and their joys, ' reciting difficulties incurred and obsta-. obsta-. cles overcome in getting the parched lips of nature as it is fonnd in the arid States of this section, engineers of the United States reclamation service yesterday yes-terday met in the district headquarters in the Commercial Club building and discussed irrigation and reclamation in all phases. v I. W. MeConnelL engineer in charge of the Uneompahgre project in Colorado; Colora-do; read a report concerning his work - and stated that water woulf be turned into the canal late in 1908. Details concerning the work on the Pathfinder 'reservoir and other projecta in Wyoming Wyo-ming and Nebraska were given by John E. Held, in charge of the North Platte project. pne of the first projects upon which f' Government first began work, the 3. nio In New Mexico, was told about by xj. M. Reed, engineer in charge. The Cariaibaproject. which, contemplates the ??,v of the Pecos river, waa also dilated di-lated i pO. . , By rs the most interesting paper read was that of C. J. Blanche rd, statistician sta-tistician of the service at Washington, D. C on Y National Drainage, the New Policy." ' Statements were made show-ing show-ing that those southern and southwestern southwest-ern States known as " swamp w States had gone on record at the drainage congress con-gress held recently at Oklahoma City, as anxious to have the reclamation service ser-vice taker np the work of reclaiming submerged lands in that district. |