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Show THE MAXWELL PLAN. John fl Mixwell is In Penver. talking talk-ing vlgoiouslj on Irrigation mntters and opposing Hit Irrigation bill upon whh h the Senators nnd lleprosentatlves fiom lhe arid States have agreed Mr Maxwell Is thalrimn of the exccutlvo eommlttee of tho National Irrigation nssorl itlon whlcn litis for some enrs been urging thu construction of nntlonal stoi ui,e reservoirs llo opposes nn control con-trol I. the Blutes, holding that the res ervolrs nnd tho control of Ihe streams aie nnll mnl affairs as much as the building nml control of lhe levees of the lower Mississippi Ho ka8 there Is no hope of tossing tho bill now pending nnd tint It ought not to pass 'What the Nation it lrrlgillon society wants ' mi)s Mr Maxwell, "la to get Congress to ,lv o us what Is known as the Chittenden Chit-tenden recommendation, that Is, that one seventh of tho river and harbor appropriation ap-propriation be set aside for the construction con-struction of nalloml storage reservoirs that lhe hydrologkal appropriation bo Increased to jroooo, and that the Clov-erninrnt Clov-erninrnt commit Itself to the construction construc-tion of the San Carlos pioject In Nevada Ne-vada which conteinpliles the recHmi-llou recHmi-llou of a 1st amount ot land in that State nnd the ft M uy"s project which will re lalni a liihe part of the State of Mom in i 1 hose are hobbles of the oiganliiitlin foi which we have been woi king and which we expect ultimate! lo see completed Mr Mixwell should make known his unlet to the people of the West -x-plslit who comprise It and wlnt strength it has We aio to have a meeting of i radical Irrigators In Silt 1-akc City on l'cbiuar Sfth, called b the tioveinor It might not be a bad Idea to Invite Mr Maxwell to be present at that meeting, and show his creden-tills creden-tills W hen a man paiades the country claiming to represen' a natloinl lirlga-tlon lirlga-tlon soclct, and opposes a carefully prepare.! bill ugrced on by nil tho mem-heia mem-heia of Crongrest, from tho attd btutes It Is i good Idoa to llud out what it means. |