Show Smith Smith-McNary Bill Is Important Says Hamele The Tile Smith McNary Dill bill providing I for the wide country-wide federal reclamation reclamation I I mation atlon of waste lanes lanca is one of ot the most important and most constructive constructive construe construe- i tive measures now pending bolero congress said i chief counsel of the tho U. U S S. S r reclamation reclamation I. I tion service lenlee This bill would appropriate 10 to extend government reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- by irrigation and drainage drainage drain tn age throughout the country The Th work would be done under contract between the United States and Irrigation Irrigation irrigation gation and drainage he lie districts would issue bonds to cover the cost These bonds would fio ao lied hold holdby by the government until the reclaimed reclaim reclaim- ed lands had increased in IC so 50 the bonds would be easily market market- able The moneys received from the sale of ot the bonds would reimburse e ethe the government for tor Its expenditures whereupon tho the projects would be turned over to the district Large areas area or of these thede re reclaimed reclaimed re- re claimed lands would be made a avail all available rId 1 able to service ox-service men Tho The proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed D n would mange federal reclamation from a sectional character character char char- acter to a national character I I The Western Vestern States Reclamation association deserves great credit for forthe the tho work it has done n Bringing the merits of ot the Smith McNary bill to the attention of the tho people said Mr Hamele The measure nas the support of or Secretary of the Interior Fall and President Harding in a recent message to congress the need of legislation of this nature Mr 1 Hamele commented upon tho the work that Is now being done by former Governor William Spry as commissioner of the general land office office of ot- fice at Washington The rhe reclamation reclamation reclamation tion service is a near neighbor of ot the general geneal land office and we are in a position to know what it is doing doing doing do do- ing said Mr Hamele Governor Spry is s an efficient administrator with a most intimate Knowledge of the many problems connected with the public domain Mr Ir Hamele Inspected the Strawberry Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- berry valley project |