232 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



fortunes as a result of those first great ideas that 

 had their incubation in the brains of Hollister and 

 Perrine, nearly twenty years ago. 



The least thought in the minds of these men 

 when they began this work was to be given public 

 credit for what they set out to do. It simply was in 

 them to do big things and they did them, regardless of 

 public applause. It was a very fitting thing, there- 

 fore, to have these two modest men given a bit of 

 praise at the great irrigation conference in Denver, 

 that they should be told that the public knows them 

 and knows what they have done and are doing, and 

 honors them for the great service to mankind and 

 to the cause of irrigation and power development 

 which they have performed. 



"Ale or Lane." 



Secretary "It is commonly reported about 



Lane Washington that Mr. Lane will not 



Should Act be with the Service much longer." 

 Decisively Director F. H. Newell left the 



above impressions with several men 

 to whom he talked in the West recently. 



What did he mean? 



Does he believe that he is so firmly entrenched 

 through his many years of political maneuverings 

 and his dickerings with the Pinchot gang, that he 

 is stronger today than the Secretary of the Interior, 

 his superior? 



Does it mean that he thinks he is strong enough 

 to block any reforms in the Reclamation Service 

 which Mr. Lane may try to make? 



Does it mean that he has laid or is laying plans 

 to take Mr. Lane's scalp, should the Secretary re- 

 fuse to dance to his music? 



Such a man is dangerous to any organization. 

 He breeds insubordination, then anarchy. 



Newell's disregard for the rights of the settlers 

 is already well known. If his feelings for his su- 

 perior, Secretary Lane, are of equal disdain, he 

 should be removed immediately. The good of the 

 Reclamation Service demands it. 



F. H. Newell, director of the Recla- 

 Director mation Service, announced on at 



Newell least two projects during his recent 



Opposes Western trip that he was opposed 



Section 16 to the passage of the Reclamation 

 Extension bill if it included Sec. 16. 



This section, added to the bill in the Senate, 

 gives the Water Users the right to ask the United 

 States courts to decide whether the settlers must 

 pay for the gross errors and incompetent work of 

 the Reclamation Service, on many of the projects. 



The best argument we have yet found in favor 

 of Section 16 is the fact that Xewell opposes it. 



The most recent letter received in this 

 Doing office from Secretary Arthur Hooker 



an Injustice of the Irrigation Congress is written 

 to Senator on a letter head bearing the name 

 Newlands of Senator Francis G. Newlands of 



Nevada, as president of the organi- 

 zation. THE IRRIGATION AGE is informed that Rich- 

 ard \V. Young, of Salt Lake City, Utah, qualified 

 for the office of president of the Congress after the 

 meeting in the Utah capital two years ago. 



The use of stationery bearing Senator New- 

 land's name as president in boosting the proposed 

 session of the Congress in Canada is a great injus- 

 tice to Mr. Newlands. It makes one of the most 

 prominent senators in the West appear as an active 

 party to the deal by which the Congress was turned 

 over body and soul for a cash consideration to the 

 Canadians. Senator Newlands, in justice to him- 

 self and to the great state of Nevada, should stop 

 this at once. He cannot afford to be a party in any 

 way to this nefarious deal. 



Because of the appearance of the Senator's 

 name on the Congress stationery THE AGE inadvert- 

 ently mentioned Mr. Newlands' name in an editorial 

 in the May issue. Many other publications which 

 have protested against the Canadian deal have made 

 a like error. 



As one who has been president of the Con- 

 gress and for many years one of its leading mem- 

 bers THE AGE, however, once more urges Senator 

 Newlands to take the leadership in the battle to 

 keep the Congress an institution of the United 

 States. 



Federal Water Users on the Truckee-Carson 

 project in Nevada were asked recently by the Recla- 

 mation Service to vote on the question of leasing 

 the power developed by the Lahontan Dam. This 

 action was taken after the bid of the Nevada Valleys 

 Power Company had been rejected because of the 

 low price offered. It is believed that a majority of 

 the settlers will vote in favor of leasing the power, 

 providing their interests are protected through pro- 

 vision in the contract that power shall be sold to 

 the farmers at a reasonable profit above the cost to 

 the bidder. The request for this referendum marks 

 a big victory for THE IRRIGATION AGE, which has 

 contended that the Water Users should have a voice 

 in the affairs of their project. 



Paris bankers have purchased $500,000 worth 

 of the million-dollar bond issue of the Brewster, 

 Wash., Irrigation District. The balance of the issue 

 will be placed in Europe, according to recent re- 

 ports. Holland bankers recently took a big loan on 

 fruit lands in the state of Washington. These deals 

 indicate a return of confidence among European in- 

 vestors in irrigation securities of the United States. 



