Show t I 1 DEBATE PROBLEMS OF LESSONS OF PAST AND WORK OF FUTURE DISCUSSED AT GATION CONGRESS task of land settlement and project management Mana Bement lie immediately across our path say says dent of congress el paso texas president richard P durges burges 0 of lie international tion ion congress delivered his annual ad dress at monday a session of at the con gress reviewing the progress of at the twenty alvo years which have elapsed cince since the basi band of irrigation pioneers met in salt lake and organized the congress lie said that while much that is valuable vau able and enduring bas has teen been accomplished more 7 remains to ie be done vast sums must yet be raised be he said but now our task Is that of im proving the highway not of blazing the trail Ingin I 1 cering problems as an forbidding as the primeval desert and a as a unyielding ad as the rocky mountains have bowed boned to the genius of ot our en ginders gi taska of land set settlement lement and id project management less lee spectacular but not less important lie immediately across our path arthur 11 I 1 davis director and cclif engineer of the reclamation service vald aid the irrigation congress had con one of the strongest influences that finally led to the passage of the national reclamation act which he characterized as an the most con construe tive piece of passed within a generation ife ile characterized the influence of a pork barrel policy on the farm unit plan as insidious and one which allowed tho farm to bo the left so large that it became a ban han decap to the jermer la III making pay ments and needed improvements improve men ta lie eald said the reclamation service would be aw unable to take up tor for some tome years new projects unless tl ti e reclamation fund cn be replenished or other means of financing these projects be devised A S 8 clawson Cla weon chief engineer of at the department of natural resources of the canadian pacific railway apoka on the development of the irrigated farm and urged the operation cooperation co of at the farmers in develop development meat dis tribu tion hid marketing dr R IL U non on kleinsmid president of the university of arizona followed him with an address on I 1 irrigation and education niel nielson Nt elson australian trade corn com to the united states made the closing address of at abd tbd th afternoon bestlin A mexican baud bad yent rent to the tion congress by the I 1 mexican govern ment Arner american fean and mexican national airs bile the crowd stood in the evening esclon a debate debat ewas was bold hold as to whether irrigation should bo be developed as a governmental or vale enterprise will R king chief counsel of the united states tion service advocated government ownership judge carrol D grave graves of seattle wash argued that private I 1 exploitation would give better results |