Show CHANGES ASKED I RECLAMATION I Representatives of Irrigation Projects Draw Resolutions To Senate Committee LAW HEARTILY ENDORSED Opinions Unanimous ol Hial fiat In to II It nf ot Stone ca lu l 1 he be Made Ih hero Thero w wn Willi es another meeting ye l afternoon of of or and definite action waa a token taken looking to In III the th h reclamation law Ill a sa 1111 outlined In this p pit pa per Mr F It II It J Scars of Ir the tho ton Mn project presided at yesterday B n meeting Ln t evening the representatives tives lve unanimously adopted the folio log Ins resolutions Appreciating the Intent of or t f the hon honorable b ar orabie secretary of ot the tho Interior and the United States senate lien ate committee on Oil Irrl Irrigation irrigation gation laUon to verse themselves on the ai ac so existing tn the rUl llon of at the various government reclamation reclamation mation mil lIan projects by personally In ln In Ing the works and hearing complaints by b personal meeting n with lIh the Ute settlers settle Interested Therefore the representative of or the following tollo Ing projects ts the Klamath North Narth Platte PlaUe valle Strawberry valley alley Oar Gar Garden den don city It Milk river Williston Truc True Truck k Carllon Orland Unit ton Uncompahgre valley valle In meeting assembled In Salt I lAke ake City this day dB ut of September 1909 present pl enl those urging needs of or the tle people connected with the foregoing projects We W heartily endorse endor the thO reclamation law end and appreciate the beneficial re ro results suits obtained from the reclamation of ot the th arid lands by the th government Hut whereas here the people who accepted ac lie accepted the government proposition on to In construct Irrigation systems under the tha act of ot Congress of June JUlie 1 I 1902 did so assuming that the th 11 lax la us M passed was wag mandatory In Us Its previsions and con can conclusive elusive In statement And whereas relying tel upon the act sot and statements made by b the Ihl govern goern government government ment m nt engineers as all the source of our Information on what we were to re recelo receive celo And whereas relying upon ut On the law 1111 lawand lawand and estimate furnished us by the gov government engineers we voluntarily signed contracts contract for tor water and pledged our land and ond homes bames for the r payment thereat thereof And whereas after these contracts had been secured s based d on the esti IlIOU estimated estimated mated cost con tt f the engineers the reels reclamation mation matlon U tat lAw has halO been Ien tn so Interpreter Interpreted that the actual cost Instead of ot the ost esl call mated cost cot of ot construction Is charged against the th land And whereas these liens lien I on an the land and homes were given Riven on the estimated coat furnished by b tho the government en on And whereas section 4 t of ot the matlon law specifies that the sail saH charges shall be determined with a aview avie aview view vie of ot returning to the reclamation fund the estimated cOst of construction and that only anI Therefore Thet torf be It resolved That ThaI the th estimated cost ot of ot projects on which these the e liens were erf secured be the amount the settlers and water users should hj ht h required to pay r We S e further beg to ta recommend re th Ih the following changes In the reclamation law Iw the th time of ot payments payment p menh for tor construction charges charte be extended exten from 10 to JO 0 payment or In lieu lI u there thre thereof thereof of that the water users user be b given ghen the use of w Water ater for three or five dye years yearn w a Ith out charge or nr a R form of ot graduated Pas t 1 u lu menu be adopted to 10 enable the settle to get the land under cultivation ant and andon anton on an a It paying basis and making It po i ble bl for tor them to meet their thel obligations That the fist clause of or s II etc c r ion No 00 6 of ot th the Irrigation act be bf Inte as al mandatory that operating O and maintenance charge be paid trot troll the reclamation fund as u provided in to n said raid section 1 the engineers them themselves Ih m selves of ot reclamation projects he hf ir It to make a II statement quartet quarterly ly lyof of or the amount expended and nd for tor alms purpose e Fourth We f recommend that th the ho residence nce restriction mi u imposed by h section 5 6 of ot the Ih Irrigation act be r roa re removed moved maed Fifth That the Ihl operation Ore ration or of the In homestead law 1 be restored so en tha tho final Anal proof may mR be made madl either dither bj by b rum corn mutation or er b by nv settlement and wh h n no so o 0 made mad patents shall be Issued them for tor subject to In the government 1 O lien lIn f tr for r construction charges Sixth That the cooperative plan of construction as II heretofore In operation be legalized and operated under gov government 1 supervision Wt beg bet to In submit to 10 you OU honorable body hod that these t ia dons are ar based baNd on actual experience and by men mn who are actual water u user r rand and owners of nf land Ian pledged to In the go AO for tor the payment ament of ot u charges charger and therefore we 1 f hue II Uti that these will be given due at atlon Ion |