Show SECY WORK INVITES REFORMS IN N WESTERN ESTERN M LAND PROJECTS Government Losing Money While Settlers Complain of High Costs and Drop Behind Behind Be- Be Behind hind in Payments Finding Fact Fact Committee Is Told W WASHINGTON Oct The 15 15 The scheme of ot government So rec- rec rec reclamation development Is endangered endangered endangered by the pre present ent situation ot of thO th more Important projects ct Sec Sec- Secretary Sec Secretary reary Work ork declared tOdA today open open- openIng openIng open open-ine Ing the I Initial I session df of or the fact fact- factfinding tact finding committee appointed bY him to formulate a noI now no I imi policy Radical reforms and must be effected he said aid It if the settlers were ere to be bel beA protected 1 from loss and the KOV l i q Interests safeguarded The committee Includes Int ludes o e o pr pr er ir or r T or E 33 Campbell of ot Arizona Ind Lake Lakei Dr John A i of ot Salt I Complaints from up vitally litany Interested In de ot of arid and lands began to leach him soon Roon after he assumed a office Sec I rotary oin 01 n told the committee the complaints co almost ev sC e every ery phase of ot activity 11 lt 1 or OP CO COSTS T The compiling included ho he said l that h In many of the projects the original under which settlers q were wel e induced I 10 go KO upon the tho were wert from i 0 0 to per cent too low 10 lo and that the th actual cost his nis u bee so o I seat icat eat that It Is I Impossible for or th farmers to pay out v the time and manner fixed bv by b la law 10 or esen en nt at all that mistakes engineering and other otherwise Ise had been heen made which added to the cost ot of con constructed projects project that thit oth- oth othel others oth-cis oth el ers s had been undertaken that should hould ne never neer er have been started that the 0 s co costs ts o of the xe ser service r vice Ice and many ninny of ot the projects all bOI borne boine ne by water Hater ater users Here ere re burdensome and excessive e Under the Hie stem E stem used In the ti reclamation service H I have hate been unable to get figures fl that appeal In 10 br bp dependable as to the cost cot o of projects 01 or the total money on all projects Ii 1 J Jr i 1 r It I is r presented taken from the of the th bureau that the th 10 total Investment estment to rue 30 1923 In loune lound numbers I 81 and Its total re- re elps elp's 46 VOODOO 00 le leaving l a ah h Ince Invested Infested and unpaid ot of 1115 s The The reclamation Ben eer ervice lee Ice for tor which this department Is Bible apparently requires ZIllion Annual I report leports on some projects Indicate their enc and 1 i J endIng failure Out ot of Ue the 28 projects only onh one lute Ills met its Ils obligations as the they fell due Long Longe Lon e tensIons lons of time tot fot rul payments ment due al ate aie e being urged and by projects The origInal 20 sear ear period foi tOl pa payment ment is expiring ing on certain projects an and an ad- ad ad additional 20 year 20 ea r a extension tension Is 19 being irked In one Instance such e eC t Is to be preceded b by a fh five fhe ear car moratorium T of ot amid all lands bv b I rh allon from om from go funds s q heretofore e is falling n en h of ot projects pi as a B business u procedure and must bu i cs os to meth Qs 49 of reimbursement r ement for methI tu ds I and for tor the of It securing to the e settler a n perms perm nent home 1011 o committee Is requested to 1 e the whole hole subject Int In n It t eive gife to lo the bureau sour our on our orp thuds that thit we e mn mas old avoid er orB orA and nn I finally sour our JInn n nc c Ion ions con m mo t studY nd which should hould ultimately lire re reve revo ye ve the of or the tho r rd ed trat reI I cure to farmers to- to fo In nil nn mode and in suie In-suie I ute U a return of o Invested Infested fund I Irant I rant ant to e and extend the e In el e way pO possible and solicit voul soli OUI suggestions and 1 FREE 01 OF or INTEREST T Government Go reclamation has accomplished much There Is a Brent field tor for Its future R clim- clim anon atlon In the est by enter enterprise prise was as begun 30 years earn before the o began this work ork R and nd has largel largely deemed I i the wet v e IGo should make a comparably comparable showing tog ml reo re- re ed ed a as it I Is h horn flom Interest charges which is the thc basis of ot cal cal- cal In nil enterprises liu tl flu In private capital I am an that holt n olle polio policy he be b des de eloped I that s will III fil safe the future ot of gose reclamation which Is only concern In this Inquiry |