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of securing additional information will secure in 

 serial form all of the data available up to the present 

 time, resulting from this experimental work. 



We urge all those interested to go carefully 

 over the article by Mr. Vogeler in this issue. 



In a recent talk before the Common- 

 Flood wealth Club of San Francisco, 

 Control of Major Sherwood A. Cheney, engi- 

 Sacramento neer corps, U. S. A., made the state- 

 Valley, ment that it will be necessafy to 

 move 260,000,000 cubic yards of ma- 

 terial, or about 1% times the amount excavated in 

 the Panama canal, to take care of the floods of the 

 Sacramento valley and reclaim 700,000 acres of land. 



Reclamation and flood control of the Sacra- 

 mento valley was the theme of Major Cheney's talk 

 before that club, which is composed of representa- 

 tive men of San Francisco. 



Major Cheney told of the scope of the work 

 being done and that necessary in order to reclaim 

 that quantity of land, which he states is the richest 

 land in the world for agricultural purposes. For 

 sixty years the people of the Sacramento valley 

 have fought the floods of the Sacramento and 

 Feather rivers, and in that time they have taken 

 valuable land into their possession. Major Cheney 

 states that some general plan is needed to make all 

 of the land in the valley available for agriculture, 

 and the one recommended by the California Debris 

 Commission is to be followed. 



"This land, without reclamation, is worth from 

 $10 to $40 per acre for grazing purposes, and brings 

 an income of from twenty-five to fifty cents. After 

 it has been made safe it is worth $250 per acre and 

 its returns will be at least $50 per acre annually," 

 said H. W. Furlong, who also spoke before the club. 



The bankers and business men of San Fran- 

 cisco were asked to awaken to the possibilities of 

 this work, and what it means to the city that the 

 reclamation bonds were purchased in the state 

 rather than outside. 



We notice in a recent issue of the 

 Where Will New Orleans, La., Times-Democrat, 

 They which goes thoroughly into the sub- 



Move ject of the efforts of the Louisiana 



Next? Reclamation Club, to obtain federal 



aid, that they devote considerable 

 space to the National Reclamation Association, 

 which has come to the front lately under the man- 

 agement of Mr. Booth, of Los Angeles, and George 

 H. Maxwell. 



The paper states that the entire equipment of 

 the national headquarters of the National Irrigation 



Association has been moved from Chicago, where it 

 has been located for fourteen years, to New Orleans, 

 and that the permanent national headquarters of the 

 consolidated organization, the National Reclama- 

 tion Association, has been established and will be 

 permanently maintained in that city. It also states 

 that The Talisman, a monthly magazine pub- 

 lished in the interest of the association and circu- 

 lated among the editors of the United States, has 

 been located therein. It also states that Mr. Max- 

 well's office as executive director will also be there. 



If the citizens of New Orleans will take the 

 trouble to look into the history of the National Irri- 

 gation Association, and will inform themselves also, 

 as to The Talisman, they will not be unduly elated 

 over their prize. Maxwell's Talisman has been pub- 

 lished with one main object that of trying to 

 boost George H. Maxwell and any idea which he 

 cared to promulgate, or the ideas of various in- 

 dividuals throughout the country whose opinions 

 suit his fancy. 



The citizens of New Orleans will learn before 

 long that this National Reclamation Association is 

 :< one-man institution, and will be dominated abso- 

 lutely by George H. Maxwell. If they have any 

 doubts about this, let them attempt to go against 

 his wishes at any public meeting or in any fight for 

 the passage of such bills as Maxwell may fancy will 

 be the means of saving the nation. 



It will be well for the citizens of New Orleans 

 to look carefully into the practices of Mr. Maxwell, 

 and the history of The Talisman and the new or- 

 ganization, before expending money or time on 

 either. 



The fact that Louis Glavis, re- 

 Pinchot's cently secretary of the Conservation 



Right Hand and Water Boards of the state of 

 Man California, had private contracts 



Glavis with lumber companies aggregating 



$40,000 to $50,000 and has been de- 

 posed by Governor Johnson of that state, must be 

 particularly interesting to the editor of Collier's 

 Weekly and Gifford Pinchot, the so-called leader of 

 the conservation movement. 



Glavis is the man who furnished Pinchot with 

 a lot of information which was so widely exploited 

 that it resulted in the resignation of former Secre- 

 tary of the Interior Ballinger. This information 

 was used largely by Collier's Weekly, which was 

 then supporting Pinchot and his coterie of friends 

 who made the unjust and unwarranted attack upon 

 Ballinger. 



Recent information on the subject is to the ef- 

 fect that Milton U. Ren, secretary to Congressman 

 William Kent of California, and who, like Glavis. 



