ANNUAL. PRECIPITATION 2. TO 30 INCHES • ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO 80 INCHES •
U. S. Weather Bureau
PHOENIX PREPARES TO CREET YOU !I
DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED AIORICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-THE CREATION OF NEW HOMES-THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. THIS WILL MAKE AMERICA STRONG I
lOth ANNUAL CONVENTION OCTOBER 15-16-17
Vol. V No. 10 WASHINGTON. D. C. July 28. 1941
CONVENTION GOSSIP Director Farmer and Secretary Hagie Meet in Phoenix
We spent a couple of days last week in Phoenix, our October convention city, with Arizona Director Hugo B. Farmor and the Phoenix convention officials, going over a lot of convention detail and planning for the biggest and best annual meeting and convention the National Recl~mation Association has ever held.
Farmers and Business Mel2:.]1ake Up Local Convention COmIni ttee
Lin Orme, head of the famous Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, is chairman of the N.R.A. oonvention committee; md Al Morairty, who was president of the Phoenix Chambor of Commerce last year when the Phoenix invitation was unanimous- ly accepted by the delegates at Groat Falls, is tho s~cretary of the local convention group. These two have surrounded themselves with a score of fast-thinking. hard- },wrking, convention-wise fellows who promise the best-organized, smoothest-running, Spanish-seasonod oonvention you ever set your two teeth in! They talk about dinners
and banquets in the patio - lighted by an October moon and set to Spanish music - a tour of the project through date palms, orange, lemon and grapefruit groves, ending
~.th din11er under the stars - and outdoor" movies - just as naturally as I pull into a gas station, order 'em to "fill 'er up", put a nickel in the slot and quench my thirst with a "coken •
Arizona Leaders Predict Biggest Convention Ever
Hugo Farmer se.ys: "You haven't seen anything until you see how the Phoenix boys can play host!"
Ted"Coe, president of the Central Arizona Light & Power Company (who has a repu-
tation for getting things done in those parts) offered the local committee full cooperation in making this particular convention out~t~nding.
Frank Haberl, manager of the Hotel Westward Ho - convention headquarters hotel -
~as arranged to turn the place over to the friends of irrigation during convention weok.
I leave Arizona visualizing a thousand reclamation convention delegates and a couple hundred wives and daughters really having the time of their lives nt Phoenix, the center of the winter tourist business in tho groat SouthWGst.
The Phoenix convention is likely to hang up a new record for attendance, enter- tainment, program, and accomplishment!
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 Tt::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
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Phoenix, A Good Hotel Tovm, Hants Your Reservations Early
A half dozen first-string hotels, and a score of high-grade tourist courts, guarantee accommodations normally only found in cities twice the size of Phoenix.
One of these days you'll hear from Phoenix direct about hotel reservations. We suggest you make your reservatiolw early.
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CONVENTION PLANS BRING BUREAU OFFICIALS TO PHOENIX FOR CONFERENCES
Through the courtesy of Commissioner Page, arrangements have been made for con- vention delegates to confer, individually or in groups, while in Phoenix with division heads of the Bureau of Reclamation who are ih charge of the following subjects:
1. General Reclamation Matters -- John C. Page, COmIT!issioner, Washington, D. C.
2. Construction -- S. O. Harper, Chief Engineer, Denver, Colorado
3.
0 & M, Division of Soil and Moisture Conservation, and Adjustment of Repay-ment Contracts
John S. Moore, Field Supervisor, Division of Soil and Moisture Conservation, Denver
T. w. Parry, District Conservationist, Division of Soil and Moisture Conservation, Denver
Also Bureau of Reclamation attorney.
4.
General Investigations -- E. B. Debler, W. G. Sloan, and A. N. Thompson, engineers from division of investigations of the Denver office.5.
Case-Wheeler projects --Wesley R. Nelson, Chief, Engineering Division, in charge of Case- Wheeler projects, Washington, D. C.
E. G. Arnold, Special Assistant to the Administrator, F.S.A., Department of Agriculture, in charge of Case-Wheeler projects, Washington, D. C.
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SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PHOENIX CO~~~TION - OCTOBER
15-16-17
Individual state caucuses from ten o'clock until noon the first day, Wednesday, October 15, and thereafter upon call of the State Director.
Thirty minutes of keynoting by President O. S. Warden of Great Falls, Montana •
.An entire evening devoted to a discussion 0 f the "Problems of the water Userstl by the water users themselves. This progrrum is being arranged in person by Lin
Bulletin No. 10 - 3 July 28, 1941 Orme, presid~nt of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, and promises to be the most beneficial meeting of its kind ever held.
A clarifying discussion on the "Relation of Power to Reclamation" by 1'1R. ABE FORTAS, the new acting director of the Division of Power recently established in the Depart- ment of the Intorior. Practically every project, present and future, will be
concerned with what Mr. Fortas has to say.
"Today's Reclamati on Program" by COffi'IISSIONER JOHN C. PAGE of the Bureau of Reclama- tion (upon whom his alma mater, the University of Nebraska, recently conferred the degree of Doctor of Engineering) will reveal a reclamation program so different from a year ago that you will hardly recognize it. This, too, will be a keynote of the whole convention program.
Comwissioner Page will also conduct a Question Box, answering questions previously submitted in writing, and will answer such questions from the floor as an hour of time will permit.
RALPH BRADFORD, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, will in- dicate the support which organized business offers the federal reclaInati on program by discussing "The National Values of Western Res'ourcostt•
E. W. RISING, Vice-Prosident of the Western Beot Growers' Association, an Idahoan who has spent most of his time in Washington the past two years on reclamation and sugar legislation, will bring convention delegates "The Sugar Picture Today". Areas inter- ested in either sugar boet, or sugar beet seed, production should be present to hear Mr. Rising.
All the way from Sioux City, Iowa, CARL WILKEN, Executive Secretary of the Raw Materials National Council, is coming to analyze "The Problems of Agriculturett• A yeer ago we saw Carl hold a roomful of railroad agricultural men on the edge of their seats for an hour as he revealed by figures the dependence of national pros-
peri~ in America upon our agricultural prosperity.
HALBERT P. GILLETTE, publisher and student of long climatic cycles, and a resident of San Marino, California, has accepted our invitation to discuss itA Menacing Long
Dro~ht". Gillette is the man who, a year ago in Seattle, said we had just completed ten years of a thirty-year downward course on a sixty-year drought cycle. Few con- vention speakers will be of greater interest to delegates than Mr. Gillette. Last November Professor C. F. Brooks of Harvard, secretary of tho American Meteorological Society, said: "Meteorologists owe Mr. Gillette a vote of thanks for his research into geological aspects of climatic changes.1t
MILTON S. EISE~110WER, the man who coordinates the fa.r-flung and varied prograIIls of the Department of Agriculture, after many invitations in the past to particip~te in our program, has de~lnitely agreed to be at Phoenix and discuss "The Values Created by Land Development".
CLIFFORD KAYNOR, publisher of the Ellensburg Daily Rocord, Ellensburg, Washington -- county seat of a Bureau of Reclamation project area -- was called upon several years ago to handle the settlement of 72,000 acres of new land about to come under the
govornment canals und needing to be transformed from sagebrush to American farm homes~
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July 28 J 1941 Because a number of projects will be faced with settlement problems in the next year or so, Clif Kaynor has finally agreed to ~t the boys run the newspaper for a week while he comes to Phoenix to discuss "The Settlement of Irrigation Projects". There is no subject so vital to the business coa~unity, the present farm population, or the' federal government as that whichMr.
Kaynor will discuss. Incidentally, Clif Kaynor did a job that could well be repeated on every new piece of land to come under cultivation through irrigation. What you will learn from Kaynor will alone be worth the trip to Phoenix.HON. CARL HAYDEN, Senator from Arizona -- the man the entire U. S. Senate looks to for leadership on reclamation Inatters -- will be our banquet spoaker Friday evening, (outdoors in the patio of the Hotel Westward Ho). Senator Hayden will touch on reclamation matters, but will speak largely upon national and international affairs from his intimate knowledge as a member of some of the most important committees of the Senate.
We Imow of no man who has been a better friend of wostern reclamati on or one who ha.s done more in its behalf than Senator Hayden. Every man and woman registered will want to hear Carl Hayden.
So Much for Now -- More On The Convention Program In Later Bulletins
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MONTANA RECLAMATION COMMITTEE BUSY
A. J. Breitenstein, of Great Falls, l1ontano., one of our geninl hosts last
September, hus boen mado chairman of tho Hotels and Accommodations Committeo of the Montanans' Reclamation Committee and is in charge of room reservations for the Montana delegates to the Phoenix convention. Breit advises that he has already re- ceived ten reservations from fellow Hontanans and expects many more between now and convention time, but he, too, is urging those contemplating attendance at the N.R.A.
convention to make their reservations early.
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SOME EFFECTS OF NATIONAL DEFENSE UPON FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROGRAM
Friends of reclamation everywhere should know just how the all-out effort of this nation to prepare for its own defense and to become the arsenal for other democracies and allied countries is beginning to affect tho construction program of the Bureau of Reclamation. We recite a few:
The Bureau has lost several hundred of its· personnel and staff to the Army, the Panama Canal and to private industry.
The Office of Production Management has established priorities for defense use on many supplies and materials needed in recla- mation construction.
Construction costs are increasing.
In some areas a labor shortage is threatening.
Reclamation projects Which can make hydro-electric power available for defense industries, like Grand Coulee, Central Valley, and other projects which will bring in largo blocks of power, are given high priority ratings for the material needed, permitting a speed-up of construction. Such projects can look forward to receiving deficiency
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July 28 ~ 1 941 appropriations sufficient to crowd their construction forwatd at full speed, while the construction on other projocts may of neces- sity be groatly rotarded.Commissioner Page recently stated in Denver that he doubted that the Bureau would be able to spend more than half of the appropri- ations available for the current fiscal your because of tho conditions referred to herein.
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LOOKING AHEAD Get Projects Ready For Later Construction
We believe this is a good time for all individuals~ community and state agencies which are interested in irrigation and rGclamation development to pross for surveys of the most feasible of your potential projects, in order that you might have one or more projects completely engineered and approved for immediate construction if .and when our national defens e efforts subside and the nation turns to more peaceful and permanent pursuits for the employment of its labor.
Defense Needs May Develop Wost
We call your attention to the hearings now being held by a subcommittee of the Senate CommittGe on Public Lands and Surveys, chairmaned by Senator Joseph C.
0'Mcll0ney of Wyoming, the purpose of whicp is to study the development and usc of western minerals and western resources in connection with our present defense efforts.
Properly supported and encouraged, this movement may head to substantial western development immediately, which otherwise might require years to bring about. Lot your senators know how you feol about it.
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MORE ABOUT POWER AUTHORITY BILLS
Under the paragraph entitled "Power Authority Bill Due Before Congress Soon", the June 20th bulletin from this office said it was understood that Senator Bone of Washington would soon introduce a Columbia River power authority bill.
The Bone bill has not yet been introduced, but instead, the administration'S power authority bill was introduced by Congressman Hill of Washington (H.R. 5129) and through the courtesy of Senator Hayden, a copy was sent to each reader of this bulletin.
We understand that some revisions to this bill are now being made to meet certain departmental objections. It is probable that sponsors of the bill will make stronu- ous efforts to got tho bill up for hearings as soon us possible after hearings on the st. Lawrence waterway bill are completed. In the meantime~ western reclamation- ists should study the bill carefully.
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Hoping to see you at Phoenix from October
15
to17
at the 10th Annual Meeting and Convention, I remainSine erely yours,
F. O. Hagie, Secretary-Manager National Roclamation Association
