THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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DISCUSSES RECLAMATION. 



President Taft Indorses $10,000,000 



Bond Issue for Comnletion of 



Works. 



Reclamation of the arid and semi- 

 arid lands by irrigation was discussed 

 at length by President Taft, on Sept. 

 28. He unreservedly indorsed the 

 work of Richard A. Ballinger, Secre- 

 tary of the Interior. 



In discussing problems before the 

 Reclamation Department, he said in 

 part: 



"The reclamation act provides for 

 the expenditure of funds made up of 

 the proceeds of the sale of public 

 lands and reimbursed from time to 

 time by the installments to be paid 

 by the settlers who take up the irri- 

 gated land, and it also provides that 

 no part of a project is to be contract- 

 ed for or begun until the money for 

 the completion of that part of the 

 project contracted for shall be in the 

 reclamation fund. 



"Now, it appears that it will take 

 $10,000,000 or more, which is not avail- 

 able in the reclamation fund at pres- 

 ent, fully to complete the projects, 

 and it also appears that a great num- 

 ber of persons by reason of the be- 

 ginning of the projects have been 

 led into the making of settlements, 

 the expenditure of time and labor, 

 with the hope and upon the reliance 

 that such reclamation enterprises 

 would be carried through in reasona- 

 ble time. 



"I think there is no doubt that it 

 was the intention of Congress that 

 projects should not be multiplied in 

 such a way that they could not be 

 completed within a reasonable time 

 out of the reclamation funds provid- 

 ed by the sale of public lands, and 

 it would probably have been wiser to 

 adhere strictly to the limitation thus 

 construed, even though the language 

 of the act, by dividing up the proj- 

 ects into parts in terms seemed to 

 permit the beginning of more proj- 

 ects than there was likely to be 

 money enough to complete within a 

 reasonable time. 



"The pressure was doubtless very 

 great, and the reclamation service 

 yielded to the pressure within the 

 letter of the law, and now find them- 

 selves in the situation described. 



"But something must be done to 

 relieve the present situation, which 

 .is one of disappointed hopes to many 

 settlers upon the arid lands who, 

 counting upon an early completion 

 of the projects undertaken, have in- 

 vested their money and spent their 

 time and seemed to be no nearer 

 the goal of satisfactory irrigation 

 than they were whi&i' the projects 

 were begun. 



"I think it wise to apply to Con- 

 gress for relief by urging passage of 

 an enabling act which shall permit 

 the Secretary of the Interior to issue 

 bonds in the sum of $10,000,000 or 

 more, to complete all the projects 

 now projected. 



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