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Show Reclamation Men in j Session at Salt Lake SALT LAKE, Dec. 11. With the 'opening jrfestcrdaj afternoon of a two-di two-di v confeieiue of the exccutlv. committee com-mittee members of the Western States Reclamation association. encOuragi -me,nt ioi the reclamation and Irrigation Irriga-tion Hopes oi people of the west jw-HH brought to Salt Lake, nans to begin the sessions in the morning wen: awry when the train carrying a majority ma-jority of the committee members it,.. . tftl I, I II II lllllll- Lm i Attending the gathering are the following fol-lowing members of the committee R. E. Shepherd, Idaho; Sims Ely, Arizona, .lames T Whitehead. Nebraska; Nebras-ka; Percy A. Cuppev, regon; Francis c Tracy, Ne. Mexico: E. F. Blaine. Washington. J. K. I'M w a ids Montana, w . Beard, California; William Spry, I tah and Governor l W Lav'ls of Idaho and his secretary, Frank Brown who ate chairman and secretary, secre-tary, respectively, of the committee. In a.ldr. ...ii to '.he committe- members. W W. Armstrong of Salt Lake, treasurer treas-urer of the committee, Jerome G. Ixicke of Livingston, Mont.. 1 . T. Murphy Mur-phy of Dubois. Idaho. Joel L. Priest of Boise, IJ. Hetherton of Portland, A J. Smith. Baker. ire : Jamea A. Ford of Spokan.-. N' W. Durham of Spokane, Spo-kane, Charles R Murray of Tacoma, W. L Boise of Portland and Charles E. Arne'y of 8pokane, prominent in i e.-l.. ma t ton work, are In attendanee Mr. Spry, who has been the Washington Washing-ton representative of the committee Is acting for W. R. Wallace, committee commit-tee member, who Is out of the city. The Nevada, Wyoming and Texas members mem-bers of the committee were unable to be present. Mrs. Boise is represent -Ins Colorado by proxy. Necessarily, a considerable part of the plans of the committee for passage of a reclamation measure that will be of benefit to the west are not permitted permit-ted publication, for there Is an opposl-i lion to western reclamation projects In Bumt pi, iiuus vi in,- i.ouoii tinu inei committee prefers to not permit all its! plans to become public. Governor Davis, In calling the meeting meet-ing to order reviewed briefly the) ! work of the association In the year of; it existence, and called upon Frank I W, Brown, secretnrv. to tell the results 'of his recent trip to Washington. Go - j jcinor Davis expressed himself aa being jmuch encouraged with the outlook for the enactment of some sort of a rec-1 llamation measure and said he felt the' Smith-Fletcher bin had the bctier ichance of any of the proposed reclam-j atlon measures. The fact that Senator! Harding had repeatedly declared himself him-self In favor of reclamation of west-! lent lands, he said, made the outlook particularly favorable. oo |