its its left

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION Ii! TO 30 INCHES • ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO 80 INCHES •

U. S. Weather Bureau

IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT WHAT CONGRESS DOES EACH YEAR FOR RECLAMATION IS IN DIRECT PROPORTION TO THE INTEREST SHOWN AND THE EFFORT MADE

FOR RECLAMAT BY THE PEOPLE OF THE WE

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WASHINGTON. D. C. _{September 20, 1941}

MANY STATES PREPARING FOR BIG DELEGATIONS AS TIME DRAWS NEAR

There are just 25 days left until President Warden will call the Tenth .. .Annual

Meeting and Convention to order in Phoenix. Many state reclamation meetings have been taking place in preparation for the National Reclamation Association Meeting October 15,

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in Phoenix.

The SOUTH DAKOTA RECLAI1A.TION ASSOCIATION held its annual meeting at Belle Fourche on September 1 and 2 with an excellent state-wide attendance.

The NORTH DAKOTA RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION is scheduled to hold its first

annnst

meeting on September 22 and 23 at Minot. Director Polk anticipates between 500 an~ 1000 delegates from every county in the state.

On September

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the TEXAS WATERSHEDS ASSOCIATION met in Austin and named offi. cial delegates to the Phoenix meeting of the National Reclamation Association.

Reports are that the IDAHO RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION recently met at Twin Falls

in preparation for IdwlO'S usual good attendance at the N.R.A. meeting.

The OREGON RECLAMATION CONGRESS is scheduled to convene at Ontario on Septem~er

29 and 30 for its 31st Annual Meeting.

There are other similar meetings planned, * * *,.* * * PRE-C01TVENTION GOSSIP

From the state of Wa~hington comes news that early reservations have been rna'de'

for the Phoenix convention by E.

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Brand and Charles Powell of the Kennewick Irrigation District. G. L. Sterling, F. A. Kern and Fred Schnebly of the Kittitas Reclamation District and Clif Kaynor, Editor, all of Ellensburg, are making plans to attend the Phoenix meeting.

Ed Davis, new Director of Conservation & Development, Thomas B. Hill of the same department, and Charles Bartholet, state Engineer, all of Olympia, are among those who contemplate being at Phoenix next month. Others scheduled to be there include former director and treasurer, H. Lloyd Miller of Sunnyside, and E. F.

Blaine of Grandview.

Director Jim Ford expects between

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registered delegates from the Evergreen State of Washington.

OFFICERS

O. S. WARDEN. PRESIDENT ORA BUNDY. FIRST VICE·PRESIDENT ROBERT W. SAWYER. SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT J. A. FORD. TREASURER

F. O. HAGlE. SECRETARY· MANAGER

HUGO B. FARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER. EXETER. CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP. FILER. IDAHO

E. PORTER AHRENS. SCANDIA. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA

DIRECTORS

C. E. AL T[;:R. ALMA. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB. CANTON. OKLAHOMA

ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON W. D. BUCHHOLZ. NEWELL. SOUTH DAKOTA R. E. BASKIN. SEYMOUR. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON PERRY W. JENKINS. CORA. WYOMING

President 1.Ja.rden thinks his state of Montana will out-rank Hashington in number of delegates at Phoenix.

Personally, we're putting our money on Idaho and Kansas as the two states with the largest registration at Phoenix (outside of the host state) although anything can happen as a result of the Texas Watersheds Association meeting if that Texas group really gets going. It might be said in passing, however, that Directors Stone of Colorado and Farmer of Arizona are already getting out

bulletins to build up attendance from their respective states.

Director Tom Smith of Nevada writes: tlI anticipate a fairly good attendance from Nevada this year as the Governor has appointed 29 delegates."

Word comes from the Central Valley Project Association that California will probably have a larger delegation at Phoenix than at any previous meeting of the Association.

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THREE STATES OUT FOR HEXT YEAR'S CONVENTION

Invitations to entertain the

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convention from at least three states -Idaho, California and South Dakota - will be before the convention at Phoenix.

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COl'111ISSIOl~ER PAGE ON RECLAMATION AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

From a statement prepared by Commissioner John C. Page for presentation at the First Annual Meeting of the North Dakota Reclamation Association at Minot, we quote the following:

ttFood supplies are a vital consideration in the national defense. The problem of feeding 132,000,000 people in the United states and the multi-millions of war-torn countries must be met. Fedoral reclamation

is called upon to aid in meeting this problem just as it is coping with threatened power shortages on the Pacific Coast and the Rocl~ Mountain region.

"'Food will win the war and write the peace,' says Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, speaking from San Francisco on September 8.

"The great western livestock industry will need more hay and pasture to produce the meats and dairy products that only irrigated land can in-sure in the face of this emergency and all droughts to came.

"Nutritious vegetables, both fresh and for canning, and certain fruits in the increased quantities necessary must come from land for which

moisture is certain to be available in the growing season.

nIt is only through the Federal Reclamation program that an increased output of foodstuffs can be assured west of the lOOth Meridian. The

4,000,000 acres of irrigated land Recla~ation projects are now serving are already enlisted in the cause of increased production. Nearly

7,000,000 additional acres, half of which are now inadequately irrigated, will be given a secure water supply by proj ects undor cons truction."

Bulletin No.

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EDWARD T. TAYLOR

(1858-1941)

September 20,

1941

Reclamation has lost a great friend. Believing that the following editorial from President Warden's paper TEE GREAT FALLS TRIBm~E,

September 5 issue, best expresses the feeling of the West toward Ed Taylor, we reproduce it below:

nEDWARD T. TAYLOR

'~dward T. Taylor, venerable and beloved chairman of the appropriations committee of the house of representatives of the congress at Washington, has come to the end of a long and useful life---at the age of

83.

The sad news brings sorrow to the hearts of thousands of friends in the home state of Colorado, to thousands more in the great wide west, to thou-sands more throughout the nation who have come to admire rugged personal honesty and loyal public service.

ItThe writer of these lines had the privilege two years ago of preparing a testimonial to

Mr.

Taylor, presented by the annual convention of the National Reclamation Association convening at Denver. This was the wording of the tribute:

Worthy son of western Americ~ in the pioneer days; sturdy builder among the strong men who founded the state of Colorado;

educat-ed in the law; diligent in all the duties of citizenship; interested through the earlier years in the law-making of the new Centennial state; father of the statute creating the supreme court of the state of Colorado; public servant in legislative halls at home and in the capitol of the nation for half a century of time; constant. supporter of reclamation as a vitalizing national policy; author of the Taylor grazing act; on and on up to the great chairmanship of the appropria-tions committee of the house of representatives in the congress of the United States; never turn-ing away from the best in government through a long and useful life; patient and tireless in all the work he has undertaken; unfaltering in courage to uphold every conviction; wise as a co~~sellor

supporting whatever is good, right and just in public life.

"This was the tribute of

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western states. Now a nation mou:-us. "A great American carrying the tasks of public service of all way has come to the end of his life. What he has done will be a living inspiration in all of the years to come. II

DOWN THE HOME STRETCH WITH THE SECRETARY -I1.lU'iAGER

In crossing the pan-handle of Idaho from the state of Washington eastward, ~e

attended a meeting arranged by Director Ford of

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business and agricultural leaders at Couer d'Alene, Idaho, who are promoting the Rathdrum Prairie project---a project which would rehproject---abilitproject---ate project---a lproject---arge project---areproject---a, pproject---art of which is still receiving wnter from a private irrigation project from un ever-decreasing water supply.

Three stops in Montana brought us in conference with organized business groups in Missoula, and in Great Falls, Where we had a day with President Warden on asso-ciation matters. Enroute to North Dakota, we stopped to visit the now-finished Fort Peck Dam.

In North Dakota Director Polk and the President and Secretary of the newly-formed North Dakota Reclamation Association had meetings arranged in Williston,

Minot, Devils Lake_l l'1a.ndan, Dickinson 8.l1d Bowman, together with tours of actual and proposed irrigation projects. In spite of unusually heavy rains, and the first real crop in years, North Dakota has organized and appears determined to develop their rather large irrigation possibilities to insure stability to their agricul ture.

We were in South Dakota during the 3rd Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Reclamation Association at Belle Fourche, and therefore had an opportunity to confer with a half dozen or more groups from scattered sections of the state, and were honored to appear on the Association's program along with Congressman Case, co-author of the Case-Wheeler Act, and many other notables in the reclamation field. South Dakota convention delegates were greatly cheerod by the statement made by v,f. G. Sloan of the Bureau of Reclamation to the effect that a way had been

found to irrigate all irrigable land available west of the Missouri River without conflict with the Army's plans for navigation south of Sioux City, Iowa. South Dakota is forging ahead with her reclamation possibilities.

In Nebraska meetings arranged by Director Alter at McCook and Superior proved that the dffinand for irrigation and flood control on the Republican River is gaining new supporters annually. In fact, interest on the upper Republican is so great that the business and agricultural int~rests in the aroa havG organized the Republican Valley Conservation Association and maintain a full-time executive to promote projects in that area and insure the closest possible coordination of all Federal, state and local agencies in the early solution of the many problems .

brought to that area by drought, floods, soil erosion, migration, tax delinquency~ relief demands, etc. We shared both Nebraska meetings with Congressman Carl Curtis of that state.

Two strenuous days in Kansas completed Ot~ field trip for this year. Here Dr. E. Porter ... ~rens of Scandia, our Director, working wi th George Knapp and the

Kap~as Reclamation Association, had arranged a half-dozen meetings varying from conferences with a score of men to street meetings attended by upwards of a thousand men, women and school children. These meetings ranged from central to western Kansas and included tours of potential projocts now under investigation by -the Bureau on the Republican, the Smoky and the Solomon Rivers, all of which were near flood stage even though the Kansas corll crop was burning up for lack of rain at the proper time.

Here again we were honored to have Congressman Frame Carlson participate in each of the meetings and to have Congressman LambertSion participate in one.

Bulletin No. 13 - 5 September 20, 1941

Central Kansas is still los ing population. But they are getting water-minded ·fast.

Watch developments there'

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PRESIDENT HARDEN SAYS:

ItThere proba.bly has never been a time when so ma.ny and va.ried problems face ~he

reclamation interests of the West for open-minded consideration and solution as today. We hope to make headway on numerous of these issues at our Phoenix meeting."

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If you haven't made reservations yet for the Phoenix convention. better do it at once. Until then, Sincerely yours. F.

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Hagie Secretary-Manager SECRETARY-llill~AGERIS flL~YER

I wish I were beneath a tree, A.sleeping in the shade;

With all the bills I've got to pay,

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I wish I were beside the sea, Or sailing in a boat;

With all the things I've got to write. W ROT E 1

I wish I were on yonder hill, A-basking in the sun;

With all the work I've got to do,