Show I BLAINE LAINE 1 TO WASHINGTON i t Reclamation Delegates tj j Send Man East To ToI Toj I Aid finders Fact I SALT LAKE LAIgE Nov n in- in inStruction In 1 from the executive com com- committee il ot of the Western Re- Re Reclamation association to give the finding f finding fact committee of ot the ho- ho buI reap bu-reap sap reap of o reclamation aB 11 a lIable I facts concerning the results of ot re- re ret rem reclamation r m work In tn the west West E B F t Blame of Seattle SeattIe chairman of ot the committee on education 1 Is sched sched- soh scheduled ed- ed edI tiled to leave for Washington to- to toda to today I day clay da Mr Blame Blaine was given au- au authority au authority to proceed a as he ha saw fIt while there thore thereTha The Tha work ot of o the tact fact act committee was WILS heartily Indorsed by bythe bythe the association during Its two day two conference here The adoption of a series serle of ot reso reso- reso- reso resolutions resolutions pertaining to the problems of reclamation projects the elec elec- election elec- elec election election tion of ot officers and nd changing the laws laws bylaws to permit the e committee to choose the place for forthe forthe the next meeting were the main achIevements of the meeting Among the resolutions adopted were ere those expressing t l Hubert Work ork secretary of the for tor his efforts In behalf ot of reclamation urging all projects now under construction to be bo com corn completed completed Interstate rh ri er cc pacts assuring the south of ot the hearty operation co-operation of an appropriation the west nest requesting lIon tion of ot or more to be used under the reclamation law Jaw as promptly as such luch money could be WIsely expended and stating that the Wt Western Stern States Reclamation as- as as association deemed present laws s ade ade- ade mate ade-mate Quate to care for or settlers In tempo- tempo r distress RETAIN B U E r Shepherd manager of the side project at Twin Falls Idaho na was as chosen president to suc- suc suc succeed eed eed D W ls Da who resigned to take up his duties as head hend of the bureau of reclamation In Washing Washing- ton Whitney BoIse ot of Portland Ore was nas chosen vice Ice president The secretary and amId treasurer were chosen b by the executive committee ho aho selected the present officers Lake and W It W Armstrong of Salt J W Brown of Boise Id ho to ucc-ed ucc themselves as treasurer secretary respectively The executive committee I Is as tollos tollo s Utah Utah-B R B E CaIdwell ot of o Salt SaIt Lake W Idaho W G 0 of ot Boise W Oregon Oregon W E B Meacham ot of Baker Tc Teas C Tei C as as C H Pease of McAlister New L J Mexico J- J JM M French of Santa Fe Washington Washington-IL Washington B A A Scott of 01 Wm Arizona Wm Wisener of Yuma Tome Colorado Ired Colorado Fred L Lucas Lucaa of Den Den- Denier ier tr I CalifornIa Albert California Albert Lindley of Stockton Nebraska R Nebraska R A A Smith ot ci Omaha The Time appointment for tor Wyoming III be made later Ne Neada ada and Montana were not officially Sl 84 at ht t the tha cons con contention PLACE Or OJ MEETING l In the commit commit- I e c the Hie right to de designate the place It fir the coming meetings the association t ton tion on automatically announced Its confidence C In Itself Meetings had run been restricted to Salt Lake or Y Washington D C because mem mem- mem- mem members be- be beof bers berc of the association wanted It Itlo to 10 be he a business rather than a i organization rh The Western States Reclamation tion Hon association was wae formed In 1919 1019 This was their third meeting the con of ot 1922 ha hating ha Ing been passed The e committee lies l made no announcement con con- concerning concerning con concerning the place of th 1914 leU con con- con trence frence SPRY SPILT GIVES ADDRESS Former Governor William of Utah now commissioner of the general land office at nt Washington tOd one of ot those In the or- or organIzation or organization of the association and later Its the present at st Washing Washington ton was one of ot the speakers at the mornIng session Ho He congratulated the association on the representation representation representation tion present saying It had never brought together such a body of men vitally Interested In reclamation reclamation reclamation tion He also congratulated aled the member In their determination to carry caro on I I want you he ht old gald to te keep nip rup this n work ork of reclamation When hen lit dt has come out of the present tUr- tUr tur and apparent distress It e a ill hae ha new clothes clothe new vision and andla anda andla la a greater future than eser eHr before Whatever the finding tact Islon sIon alon may report I believe from my acquaintance with the subject and the commission that It will be fa- fa fa favorable to reclamation There Thero has hns been too much pessi pessI- pessImIsm pessimism In the conduct of o farms and the sale of farm tarm products I may say Aay that the happiest time of m my life Ufe was waa those leave eare I spent on the tarm farni though I waa getting less for the products than probably an here lies has ever received As Adam Bede whom many of ot you OU know saId once the farmers of ot today have too many limousines and not enough manure nure spreaders If It they would he lie said put more bull In Inthe inthe Inthe the ground and less In the tho air all we would be far more prosperous Governor Spry called attention to fo the fact tact that the vast majority of the reclamation funds come from the receipts from the sale of pUblic lands of ot the west the through com corn commissioner's missioners missioner's office The poor methods of ot the indi individual vidual farmer ho believed belle ed are re- re responsible re responsible for tor many of the so called so failure on reclamation projects There are some persons who make malee better shoemakers than farmers he asserted and when they settle on a project they should be gently transferred ort oft the farm tarm and back to the last The chief difficulty of ot reclamation reclamation reclamation tion today ho asserted Is the grouch The Tho man who nho has hIlS failed on a project and returned to other fields I Is frequently grouchy The grouches are arc those that would not malc a a success of farming In a thousand years of ot effort erfort n |