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ENDORSE $100,000,000 PLAN 



Oregon Irrigation Congress Approves Federal and 

 State Co-operation 



The Oregon Irrigation Congress, which met at 

 Portland, Ore., during the past month endorsed the 

 plan to issue $100,000,000 in United States bonds to 

 be used in the development of irrigation projects in 

 the West. Secretary of the Interior Lane's proposal 

 for co-operation between the Federal and state gov- 

 ernments in building new projects and completing 

 others was approved. The resolutions also endorsed 

 the extension of water right payments on the Federal 

 irrigation projects to cover a period of twenty years. 



"Not a dollar of such aid will be lost," declared 

 President William Hanley of the Congress, in speak- 

 ing of the bond issue plan. "The states and nation 

 will be amply repaid by increased valuation and 

 greater population." 



Other speakers were almost unanimous in de- 

 claring all future irrigation work in Oregon must 

 be financed by bond issue and carried out with the aid 

 of the Federal government. 



John T. Lewis, state engineer for Oregon, put 

 forth a plan to utilize the superior credit of the Fed- 

 eral government to issue the irrigation bonds, one- 

 half of which would be secured by state 4 per cent 

 bonds, and both issues to run for 50 years. 



"We are going to get water on the land, if we 

 have to send the militia to get it," declared Governor 

 Oswald West. "We must do something without de- 

 lay, and do it before there is a change of administra- 



tion at Washington, for whenever there is a proposi- 

 tion on foot, each new administration wants to inves- 

 tigate it all over again." 



Governor West advocated immediate relief for 

 the irrigation projects of Oregon. He urged co-opera- 

 tion of Federal and state governments in expediting 

 this relief and the use of school funds to be secured 

 by mortgages on acreage embraced in the reclamation 

 projects. 



The Congress, which is composed of sixty state 

 organizations, had a record attendance. Among out- 

 side guests were a party from British Columbia, in- 

 cluding Duncan Marshall, minister of agriculture of 

 Alberta, and F. H. Peters, dominion commissioner of 

 irrigation. 



Officers of the Congress were elected as follows : 

 President, Asa B. Thompson of Echo; first vice-presi- 

 dent, J. W. Brewer, Redmond ; second vice-president, 

 J. R. Blackaby, Ontario; third vice-president, W. Lair 

 Thompson, Lakeview ; secretary, Fred M. Wallace, 

 Laidlaw. 



Portland was chosen as the place for holding the 

 next meeting. 



MARRY; KEEP HOMESTEAD. 



The house has passed Representative Kinkaid's 

 hill, which removes the penalty for getting married, 

 under which single homesteaders have labored. Un- 

 der this bill men and women homesteaders may 

 marry and then continue to prove up on their in- 

 dividual holdings providing each has complied with 

 the law one vear. 



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