Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-30 | Page 10 | Conference Results in Full Agreement

00 CONFERENCE RESULTS IN FULL AGREEMENT Washington, D. C, Jan. 29. A second sec-ond conference of western congressmen congress-men and Secretary Lane was held to decide on amendments to the national reclamation act in order to afford relief re-lief to settlers and water users. An agreement was reached which provides pro-vides that payments under the act shall extend over a period of twenty years instead of ten, and that no payments pay-ments shall be required during the first five years of settlement, other than 5 per cent of building cost, to be paid at time of filing. A further conference will be held Monday to decide upon details of the bill relating relat-ing to settlers already upon government govern-ment projects.