THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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resigned and Mr. Newell will take his place. 



The three Democrats whom Mr. Lane ap- 

 pointed to membership on the commission are Will 

 R. King, of Oregon, to be chief counsel with a sal- 

 ary of $6,000 a year; W. A. Ryan, who had been 

 employed on the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 with Mr. Lane, to be Controller with a salary of 

 $4,000 a year, and I. D. O'Donnell, of Montana, to 

 be Supervisor of Irrigation with a salary of $20 a 

 day, an allowance of $6,500 for which is asked in 

 the present estimates to Congress. 



Friends of Mr. Lane insist that in order to get 

 the best results from a tremendous government 

 organization 

 the views of 

 five men are 

 better than 

 one and that 

 a 1 1 h o ugh 

 there never 

 has been a 

 suspicion of 

 graft, the 

 expenditure 

 of $1,000,- 



000 a month 

 would seem 

 to make a 

 general su- 

 pervision in- 

 stead of an 



1 n d i vidual 

 supervision 

 preferred. 



As Direc- 

 tor of the 

 Service Mr. 

 Newell re- 

 ceived a salary of $7,500 a year. Mr. Davis as chief 

 engineer received $7,000 a year. Under the scheme of 

 reorganization the offices of director and chief engi- 

 neer are combined, and after March 1 Mr. Davis 

 will receive $7,500 a year for filling both positions. 

 Until March 1 Mr. Newell will receive the $7,500 

 salary, then he will go on the per diem basis, $25 

 a day when employed. 



The change is not made to effect economy, 

 however. There is created a new office, Chief of 

 Construction. This post will be filled by S. B. 

 Williams, one of the civilian engineers on the 

 Panama Canal, who will receive $6,500 a year. 



Mr. Newell is fifty-two years of age. On grad- 

 uation as a mining engineer from the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology at Boston he went into the 

 West as a member of the United States Geodetic 

 Survey. There he met Mr. Davis, and a friendship 

 started that has continued for more than a decade. 

 Mr. Newell's friends assert that it is much easier 

 for him to turn over the post of Director to Mr. 

 Davis than it would be to any other man. 



Under Mr. Newell the Reclamation Service 

 built the highest dam in the world, the Shoshone 

 dam in Wyoming, which is 328 feet high and 300 

 feet across the top. It forms a lake of ten square 

 miles of water 150 feet deep, irrigating 150,000 acres 

 of desert. 



Under construction now is the Arrow Rock 

 dam, in Idaho, which will be 351 feet high. An- 

 other one nearly finished is a dam across the Rio 

 Grande in New Mexico, which will make the largest 

 reservoir in the world, holding enough water to 

 cover the State of Connecticut ten inches deep. 



Probably the most spectacular of Mr. Newell's 

 achievements is the Roosevelt dam, in Arizona, 

 which is 284 feet high and 1,080 feet long on top, 

 supplying 180,000 acres of the richest land in the 

 world with water to make it possible to till. This 

 dam is so wide that there is a roadway across the 

 top. From a power plant operated there four cities 



are supplied 

 with elec- 



Irrigating Judge F. L. M-irtin's Orchard at Hutchinson, Kan. 

 Courtesy of the Rock Island Railway. 



tricity. The 

 water held 

 in check 

 would cover 

 the State of 

 Delaware a 

 foot deep. 



In his let- 

 ter to Mr. 

 Breck con- 

 cerning Mr. 

 Newell's re- 

 moval, Mr. 

 R o o sevelt 

 says in part : 

 "For 

 f ou r t een 

 years I have 

 followed at 

 first hand 

 the work of 

 Mr. Freder- 

 ick H. New- 

 ell. * * * During the eight years I was President he 

 was one of my right hand men. It is too often the 

 case in the United States that the men who are 

 most prominent who attract most attention are 

 inefficient or even vicious public servants, whereas 

 the men who do the best work work, I think, 

 rather better than the work done by the public serv- 

 ants of any other nation pass almost unnoticed 

 and without any adequate reward. 



"Mr. Newell belongs to that small group of 

 invaluable public servants of whom the most promi- 

 nent representative is Colonel Goethals. Public at- 

 tention has been attracted to Colonel Goethals, al- 

 though it is extremely unlikely that he will ever 

 get any material reward such as his services if ren- 

 dered to a nation like Germany or England, would 

 infallibly bring; but public attention has not been 

 attracted to Mr. Newell. * * * He has rendered the 

 kind of invaluable service that Sir William Gosslin 

 rendered to the British Empire in connection with 

 the utilization of the waters of the Nile, and his 

 work has been even more difficult. * * * He is a 

 public servant of whom it is the bald and literal 

 truth to say that by his service he has made all 

 good American citizens his debtors. 



"THEODORE ROOSEVELT." 



Here is Mr. Pinchot's letter to Mr. Breck in 

 part: 



