THE IEEIGATION AGE. 



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At the Omaha meeting an executive committee 

 was selected, consisting of C. G. Eowley, Jackson, Mich. ; 

 John M. McAlpine, Duluth, Minn.; Zera Snow, Port- 

 land, Ore.; C. M. Heintze, Los Angeles, Cal. ; ex-Gov- 

 ernor Frank Hunt, Boise, Idaho; L. M. Wilcox, Den- 

 ver, Colo., and the writer of this as chairman. Since then, 

 C. M. Heintze and Frank Hunt have been claimed by the 

 grim reaper, and pressing other business caused the res- 

 ignation of C. G. Eowley, and there has been added to 

 the committee C. E. Brainard, Payette, Idaho, and Jay 

 Turley of Turley, N. M. Three of the members of the 

 present committee were formerly vice-presidents. The 

 present vice-presidents are: Presley E. Horn, Hailey, 

 Idaho; Prof. J. D. Tinsley, Messilla Park, N. M.; Tom 

 Eichardson, Portland, Ore.; Judge Cyrus Happy, Spo- 

 kane, Wash.; Engineer Clarence T. Johnson, Cheyenne, 

 Wyo.; Prof. 0. V. P. Stout, Lincoln, Neb.; Prof. P. D. 

 Coburn, Topeka, Kas.; William Hale Thompson, Chi- 

 cago; John Hall, Lampasses Springs, Tex.; A. J. Cob- 

 ban, Ehinelander, Wis. One of the first vice-presidents, 

 A. H. Heber, Los Angeles, Cal., has joined Frank Hunt 

 and C. M. Heintze in the Great Outside. 



The growth of the institution has been slower than 

 some of us more impetuous members had hoped, but it 

 has made up for that in the good that it has done in 

 crystallizing ideas. It has now among its supporters a 

 number of congressmen and members of the United 

 States senate. 



The officers serve without salary, and frequently 

 pay their own expenses on trips that are deemed neces- 

 sary. The income so far has been expended for postage 

 and stationery, but it is expected at the next annual 

 meeting to effect some alterations, and perhaps put the 

 federation on a more substantial basis. Membership now 

 costs $2.50 per year, which includes one year's subscrip- 

 tion to THE IRRIGATION AGE, which is the official organ. 

 Ex-Gov. L. Bradford Prince of Santa Fe, N. M., was 

 the first president and still retains that position, and D. 

 H. Anderson, Chicago, was first elected and still retains 

 the position of secretary. 



Eecently the federation sent out inquiries along 

 proposed lines for legislation, and the numerous replies 

 were compiled with the following suggestions to congress 

 and the executive committee were a little divided upon 

 some of the questions, but a majority concurred in sug- 

 gestions herein made. 



Favor larger acreage for homesteads in the permanently 

 semi-arid regions. Mondell's bill accomplished this. 



Favor extending communtation privilege to homestead- 

 ers under feleral irrigation projects. 



Favor charging costs of federal reservoirs to river and 

 habor, or inland waterways appropriations. 



Favor extending provisions of the Carey act to the ter- 

 ritories. This has likewise been accomplished. 



Favor permitting private enterprise the privilege of ac- 

 quiring upon a reasonable base? waters impounded 



by the national government in excess of federal 

 needs for irrigation. 



Favor keeping faith with the government on the part 

 of the settlers, and on the part of the government 

 with the settlers; where an estimate has been made 

 of the cost, of a project and settlement permitted, 

 that no additional costs for betterments and main- 

 tenance be made. 



The timber and stone act interrogatory brought out a 

 number of suggestions, but in the main opposed the 

 repeal. One suggestion was given by Mr. Turley: 

 'Appraisement of lands before purchase, with a 

 clause to revert to the state in which situated if 

 purchasers do not reforest or properly protect the 

 timber and stone thereon. Also proposes making 

 taxes lighter upon, the owner who reforests, and 

 heavier upon the one who does so only sufficiently 

 to prevent his land from passing to the state. 



The American Irrigation Federation will meet at 

 Spokane on August 8th of this year, unless plans are 

 altered, and it is hoped that the attendance will be large, 

 as the date is in harmony with the National Irrigation 

 Congress, and it is then that we trust to listen to the 

 counsels of the best the nation affords as to the work 

 which this institution shall do in the future. 



A strong sentiment has developed among 

 Open to those interested in the National Irriga- 



Criticism. tion Congress, concerning the matter of 

 the office of president of that organiza- 

 tion being filled by any individual who is interested in 

 a private irrigation project, and it is doubtful if anyone 

 holding a position of that character can ever be elected 

 to fill that office again. 



While all of those interested speak in high terms 

 of Mr. Barstow, they feel that as he is interested in an 

 irrigation project which has been very largely exploited 

 through the press, it is unfair to other people engaged 

 in colonization and reclamation work under private con- 

 trol to permit his re-election. 



It is safe to say that the next man who fills that 

 position will have no outside interests and will not be 

 open to criticism of this character. 



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