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THE IRKiGATION AGE. 



plated by the reclamation law, we recommend the 

 careful revision and unification of irrigation dis- 

 trict acts by the states of the arid regions, to the 

 end that such projects may be turned over to the 

 control of the settlers through such agency. 



"Resolved, That full examination be made by 

 experienced engineers in the employ of the state 

 and Federal governments in advance of financing 

 the construction of each large irrigation project, 

 and that no such enterprise be entered upon by the 

 governmental agencies unless it appears that such 

 projects can return at least 3 per cent of the total 

 investment for land and construction." 



Delegates from the United States passed spe- 

 cial resolutions on the Twenty- Year water payment 

 extension bill, which said in part: 



"In this act of August 13, 1914, making such 

 extensions, it is now seen that the Congress of the 

 United States has gone too far in permitting such 

 extension to all landowners whether or not culti- 

 vating or improving the reclaimed areas. As a re- 

 sult, speculation in such reclaimed land is encour- 

 aged, and the real lands are held out of use, serv- 

 ing as breeding grounds for pests. We, therefore, 

 urge that prompt action be taken by Congress to 

 limit or restrict this privilege of extension of pay- 

 ments to the lands which are actually under effect- 

 ive cultivation, and to require interest on deferred 

 dues on all lands not thus cultivated. 



"We also urge the repeal of Section 16 of said 

 act of August 13, 1914, which transfers the control 

 of the expenditure of this reclamation fund from the 

 Secretary of the Interior and his experienced ad- 



visers to a committee of Congress, the members of 

 which do not and cannot learn that knowledge and 

 deep interest in western conditions so essential to 

 success." 



Officers were elected as follows : President, 

 J. B. Case, Abilene, Kan.; secretary, Arthur 

 Hooker, Spokane, Wash. ; first vice-president, J. S. 

 Dennis, Calgary; second vice-president, Richard 

 Burgess, El Paso, Texas; third vice-president, J. T. 

 Hinkle, Hermiston, Ore. ; fourth vice-president, 

 Kurt Grunwald, Denver, Colo. ; fifth vice-president, 

 George Albert Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Writing of the Dry Farming Congress, with 

 whic-h the Irrigation Congress hopes to amalgamate, 

 Douglas Malcolm, of the International Harvester 

 Company of America, says : 



"As a bright contrast to the devastated fields 

 and unharvested crops of our unfortunate kinfolk 

 across the Atlantic, the wireless message from 

 President Wilson which set in motion the Ninth 

 Annual International Dry Farming Congress at 

 Wichita presented a silent tribute to the national 

 reliance upon the American farmer, rather than 

 upon the American force of arms. Within three 

 days after the receipt of his message more than 

 40,000 Americans fired with zeal for conquest were 

 mobilized within the exposition grounds, and .dur- 

 ing the period from October 7 to 17, nearly three 

 times that many visited what is considered the 

 largest and most varied examples of soil conquest 

 which the United States ever assembled together. 



"Accompanying this congress from October 12 

 (Continued on page 414.) 



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