Show lit it Y s dr mead heads bureau of re reclamation cla mation dr elwood mend portrait nU nit hore here with has been appointed liy by secretary work of the interior department to the position of 0 commissioner of the reclamation bureau dr mend arend Is if a n noted irrigation engineer of berkeley cal and professor of rural rurel institutions 0 nt at tile university of california za D AV danvis who tins has been serving fa as commissioner takes charge of n now new finance division established by secretary work dr moni mead lina has taken nn an active part in tile the investigation ay of the advisory committee appointed last october ly by the secretary secret nry this committee ling just reported it evidently finds things in ili ili an unsatisfactory way and recommends n comprehensive lion sive overhauling of tile the entire rec lai lamination nation program of abe government declaring conditions are arc serious on oil many of the 28 pi objects located in 15 western states with three throe ii tready having callea fall eci the committee stated that of tho the already spent in ili building irrigation works will never ile ho recovered with a probable ili ob lible loss of nn additional thu whole representing losses in construction to supply water for lands found to bo be of little or no return value tile tho principal recommendation of the committee la Is that repayment of construction costs he be based balod on oil the actual crop production of tile lie farin I 1 anda rather thrift the present system of n used fixed percentage of the construction cost tin an acre which was heia to bo be inelastic find and |