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NORTrlERN COLORADO

CONSERVANCY DISTRICT

is a member of the National Reclamation Association. an association of western states comprising and representing the arid and semi-arid states of the West.

The purpose of the Association is to promote the cause of reclamation by irrigation and to exert its efforts for continuation of the services of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and to cooperate with and assist it in bringing about the speedy completion of various Federal reclamation projects. and to promote the adoption of such legis- lation affecting reclamation as shall meet the approval of its Board of Directors. each state having one Director chosen annually by caucus.

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ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHl!:S • ANNUAL PRECIPITATION :SO TO 80 INCHES •

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JKE WATER RIGHTS Of 421,000 IRRIGATION fARMERS OPERATING MORE THAN 22,000,000 ACRES IN 11 WESTERN STATES, ARE THREATENED BY fEDERAL AUTHORITIES

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DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX- PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUALLY THE AGRI.

CULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR OF OVER·EXPANDING THE RECLAMATION OF

AND ACT IN ^{OUR ARID}

'1fih Annual Meeting and Convention-Denver-November 14.15.16

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FELLOW MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF l'JATIONAL RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION EVERYWHERE:- This is the last call to make plans and reservations for the Denver meeting. It looks like the largest meeting of its kind ever heldl

We enclose a copy of the tentative program. Read it carefully and pass it on to n friend. Copies of the official program will be available at Denver when you arrive.

You will note that six more or less allied groups are meeting in Denver concurrently. The year 1946 looms big in our plansl

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ANOTHER ADVERSE REPORT ON MJRRAY M. V.A. BILL (S. 555) 1S ENCLOSED

The enclosed ndvet"se !'eport by the Senate Committee on Irrige.tion and Reclana- tion on the 11urray 11. V"AJ Bill is one of the strongest and most decisive reports we have ever read. We suggest you read it carefully.

This bill, S. 555, now [';oes to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry for a further and last he£l.ring. The members of this committee arc as follows:

Sen~tors

ThOJms, Okla.; Wheeler, !'bnt.; Bankhead, Alo.oj Bilbo, Miss.; E1J.el1der,

Luc.).s, Ill.; stewart, Tenn.; Russell, Ga.; Comlally, 'l'ex.; Downey, Ca.lif.; Hoey, N. C.; Capper,' Kans.; Shipstead, Hinn.; Willis, Ind.; Aiken, vt.; Bushfield, S. D.;

Wilson, lao; Butler, Nebro; Cordon, Oreg.; and Young, N. n.

We suggest that each of you take this authority matter up with all the organiza- tions with which you are affiliuted and see tho.t approprio.te resolutions are adopted and sent o.s soon as possible to Senator Elmer Thomas, Chairrnan, Committee on Agricul- ture and Forestry, United States Senate, Washington 25, D. C. This office would appreciate receiving copies of such resolutions.

strong resolutions on this and all other authority proposals in the hands of the chairman of the Agricultural Committee will be most effective during the next month or six weeks. Will you please help get them there? It is also urGod that you communicate your views on (s. 555) to your senators if you have not already done so.

For additionD.l copies of the enclosed adverse report (Senate Report No. 639) at $1.50 per hundred or $13.50 per thousand, send check or J r lOney order payable to Continuing Committee, ylater

Conference, Room 710 Atlantic Building, Washington 4, ^{D. C. They will} be shipped promptly.

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OFFICERS ORA BUNDY, PRESIDENT

ROBERT W. SAWYER. FIRST VICE.PRESIDENt' HARRY E. POLK. 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

PAUL W. APPLEGATE, WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FAllS. MONTANA

Respectfully submitted, F. o. ^Hagie

Secretary-~nager

DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. McCOOK. NI:.IIRASKA 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 MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH. MERCEDES. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON. CASPER. WYOMING

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHES ~ ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO eo INCHES.

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ONE PURPOS' E OF THIS YEAR'S MEETING-TO UNITE ALL WATER INTERESTS fOR THE PEACETIME DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST! COME AND HELP!

DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX.

PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUALLY THE AGRI.

CULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR.OF OVER.EXPANDING THE RECLAMATION OF OUR ARID LANDS,

Make Train and Hotel Reservations Now for November 14-15-16-Denver 1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING, WASHINGTON 4, D. C.

Dear Fellow Members:

Here is a News Bulletin filled with good news. Please read it and act on itJ

forget, there is also a job for you to do at Denver in Mid-November. Those meetings are the root of much of such news as we report herein.

F.O.H.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN REQUESTS $93,367,000 DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION TO EXPEDITE WORK IMMEDIATELY ON 31 RECLAMATION PROJECTS IN 13 STATES

There is enclosed herewith copy of House Document 331 which outlines in detail each of the items concluded in the above. Hearings on the items will start Oe'tober 22nd before the House Interior Sub-Committee on Appropriations. Interested parties throughout the West should make known their approval to their Congressmen and

Senators, and seek their support of these appropriations to start the work through- out the West which President Truman outlined in his recent message to Congi"ess.

Congressman Murdock has already asked his Irrigation Committee and other interested parties to meet and plan aggressive action in favor of the full appropriation.

IRRIGATION COMMITTEE VOTE 12 to 2 FOR ADVERSE REPORT ON MfA BILL S. 555

On October 18 the Irrigation and 'Reclamation Committee voted 12 to 2 against the Murray MfA Bill and filed a strong 23-page adverse report against the

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te accepted the report and referred the bill to the Senate Committee on

tur'o and Forestry. The Committee divided as follows. Against MVA - Bankhead, Mc C arran, Overton, o 'Mahoney, Chavez, O'Daniel, Gurney, Thomas, Butler, Inllikin, C ordon,

For MVA - Mitchell, Langer, Absent and not voting - Hatch, McFarland, Downey.

No date for hearings by the Senate Agricultural Committee will be fixed until Cha irman Thomas of Oklahoma returns from Quebec where he is uttending an inter- nati onal food council m eeting.

The Irrigation and Reclamation Committee report is the strongest indictment yet m ade against the authority proposals. The Senate had 10,000 copies of the hearings and 4,000 copies of the report printed. Caples of both can be secured by writing your Congre s smen or Senators. We expect to have probably 50,000 copies of the report printed for general circulation and expect soon to be able to furnish them in

quantitie s at cost.

OFFICERS ORA BUNDY. PRESIDENT

ROBERT W. SAWYER. FIRST VICE.PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK. SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT J. A. FORD. TREASURER

F. O. HA'OIE. SECRETARY·MANAGER

HUGO B. FARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER. ExmR. CAliFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V, SHARP. FILER. IDAHO

PAUL W. APPLEGATE. WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA

DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. MCCOOK. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W, BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB. CANTON. OKLAH"!IIA

ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH. MERCEDES. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON. CASPER. WYOMING

Vol. IX, No, 17 _{- 2 -} October 22, 1945

WESTERN SENATORS PROPOSE AMENDMENT TO HIt 694, A TRANSPORTATION ACT AMENDMENT, TO DIVEHT $68,272,770 TO REdLAHATION AND SOLDIER SETTLEMENT

The above bill has to do with land-gra.nt equalization oontracts with land grant railroads. Savings effected are estimated to total $68,272,770, and would be set aside in the Treasury a.nd oovered into

speoial fund designated as the "Veterans' Farm Fund

which shall be available for appropriations by Congress to ca.rry out pur- ' poses of the act. 75% of the Veterans' Farm Fund shall be mnde available to the Secretary of the Interior, for oonstruotion and settlement of reclamation projects, etc. 25% shall be made a.vailable to the

of Agriculiure to assist quali- fied veterans 'to establish themselves upon family type farms within Federal Recla- m ation ,projects and on lands within the states in whioh railroad land grunts are looated but which are not reolamation states.

The division of the $68,272,770 among the several states is fixed as follows:

Arizona $7,000,000, California el4,33l,000, Idaho $1,149,190, Minnesota $87,228, Mont ana $19,209,090, Nevada $11,112,454, New Mexico $,,000,000, North Dakota

Cl,000,500, Oregon $171,292, Utah $345,120, Washington ~8i789,400, Wisconsin 03~300,

Wyoming 070,100.

The bill is now in oonferenoe between members of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Corrunittee of the House and the Interstate Commeroe Committee of the Senate.

The House conferees are Boren, Priest, Harris, Holmes of Mass., and Reece. Tho Senate members are Johnson of Colorado, McFarland, Wheeler, Moore, and Reed.

TWO ENCLOSURES WITH THIS BULLETIN

1. House Document No. 331, which is the President's oommunication to Congress recommending a deficiency appropriation of $93,367,000 for Reclamation construction for the remuinder of this fiscal year.

2. MVD vs MVA, a four.page folder by Judge Stone published by H. W. Moore of Denver, Colorado, an extremely oonvincing article, " Additional copies are available.

CONVENTION GOSSIP

Word from Convention headquarters in Denver indicate that the 1945 meeting will exceed all· others in registration and interest. Since many members are reported planning to bring their wives tho Convention Committee are reported busy at plans for the entertainment of the ladies this year. This , office hopes to have a tentative program ready for the printers within a week.

FOH.me

Respectfully submitted, F. 0, Hagie,

Secretary-Manager

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHES ~

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO 80 INCHES.

MORE REASONS EXIST TODAY FOR A LARGE RECLAMATION CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE WEST THAN AT ANY TIME IN OUR HISTORY

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RESERVATIONS

DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX·

PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUALLY THE AGRI·

CULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR.OF OVER·EXPANDING THE RECLAMATlON£OF

OUW'ty"N'ot Come to Denver, November 14-15-16 and Do Something A~~ut It?

1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING, WASHINGTON 4, D. C.

SOME OF THE SPECIAL FEATURES IN CONNECTION WITH THE DENVER

On Monday and Tuesday, November 12 and 13, the two days preceding the fourteenth annaul meeting and convention of the National Reclamation Association, at least four different groups will meet in Denver to transact business and remain to participate in this association's deliperations. They area

The Association of Western state Engineers Mountain States Assooiation

Sub-Committee on Public Lands, Natural Resources Dept., U. S. Chamber of Commerce

Board of Directors of the National Reclamation Association Meeting of state reclamation associations (Tuesday afternoon

and evening only)

HERE ARE TEN OF THE HEADLINERS WHO WILL ADDRESS YOUR MEET ING

1, Hon. Ellwood J. Turner, Chester, Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Interstate Commission on Delaware River Basin, and Chairman of the Water Resources Committee

of the Council of State Governments; State Senator of Pennsylvania.

2. Lachlan Macleay, st. Louis, Missouri, President of the Mississippi Valley Association.

3. William H. Webb, Washington, D. C" Executive Vice-President, National Rivers and Harbors Congress.

4. Harry W. Bashore, Washington, D. C., Cornmissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

5. Lieut. General R. A. Wheeler, Washington, D. C" Chief of Engineers, War Department.

6. Charles F. Brannon, Washington, D. C" Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

7. William E. Warne, Washington, D. C., Assistant Conunissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

8. Hon. Alban J. Parker, Montpelier, Vermont, Chairman, Water Conservation Conferenco, and Attorney General of the State of Vermont.

9. Goodrich W. Lineweaver, Washington, D. C., Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, in charge of operation and maintenance.

10. Gilbert H. Jertberg, Fresno, California, who, with other western volunteers . , has been drafting amendments to the land limitation features of the reclamation law, will be present and submit recommendations of the voluntary

(Other speakers will be announced as soon as confirmed,)

OFFICERS ORA BUNDY. PRESIDENT

ROBERT W. SAWYER. FIRST VlCE·PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK. SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT J. A. FORD. TREASURER

F. O. HAr,IE. SECRETARY.~ANAGER

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

PAUL W. APPLEGATE, WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA

DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. MCCOOK. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH, CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO • HARRY E. POLK, WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA F~ANK RAAB. CANTON, OKLAH"lIIA

ROBERT W. SAWYER, BEND, OREGON MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH. MERCEDES, TEXAS ORA BUNDY, OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

• W. F. WILKERSON, CASPER, WYOMING

Vol., IX, No. 16 ² October 16, 1945

RU!1ORS AND SPECUlATION CONCERNING COMMISSIONER . BASHORE

Rumors are growing in Washington to the effect that Harry W. Bashore will resign before January 1. It has been known for some time that he has not been too happy under the oonditions in whioh he finds himsolf. ' Like many others from the great West, he has never enjoyed the nation's oapitol as a plaoe to live and has longed to get baok among the wide open spaoes of his adopted West. Mr. Bashore has enjoyed in a high degree the oonfidenoe of the oommittees of Congress with whioh he has had

dealings.

The position of Commissioner of the Bureau of ' Reclamation is one of the big don- structive jobs in government.

position is filled by the President, usually , upon, the reoonunendation of the Seoreta.ry of Interior. Senate confirmation is not requir- ed.

Friends of reolamation everywhere should at least be thinking of

worthy succes- sor, beonuse few government positions require such a lifelong knowledge of the sub- jeot, £'.nd probably no other arm of the government is as intimately oonnected with the development qf western America as is the Bureau of Reolnmation.

THE MURRAY M.V.A. BILL (S. 555) AND ITS PRESENT STATUS

Two weeks of hearings on the above bill were completed on September 28 by a

Senate Sub-Committee on Irrigation and Reolamation. Four of the five members of the sub-committee voted to make an adverse report to the whole committee, one member

(Senator Carl Hatoh) being absent in the hospital. On October 15 the sub-committee _ submitted its report to the whole committee, which postponed action until October 18 in order to give Senator Langer

time to study the reoord of the hearings.

The bill, (S. 555) will now be sent to the Senate Committee on Agrioulture a.nd Forestry for a third and last hearing before being roferred t9 the Senate floor for , debate and action. At this writing we

no way of knowing when the Agricultural and Forestry Committee will stnrt hearings, but it ts, understood that

Thomas of Oklahoma, chairman

will be out of the country attendipg an international food conference in Quebec, Canada

for some time.. Interested, parties should , be giving thought to proper witnesses to represent their respective states at this hearing_

GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE OF MISSOURI SEND COMMITTEE UP MISSOURI RIVER TO STUDY M.V.A.

Sixteen people chosen by the Governor and Legislature of MiS,souri lert Jefferson City on Ootober 13 for a lO .. day tour of the Missouri Ba.sin 'by special railroad car ..

stops have been arranged at Pierre, South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; Helena, Montana; Fort Peck Dam, Montana; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Denver, : Colorado; and Kansas City, Missouri, from where t ' hey will return to Jefferson City ^by army ' boat down the river.

Acoording to reports here ..

Claude B. Ricketts

ohairman of the coromi ttee, and Fred V. Heinkel, president of the 'Missouri Farmers Association, ' are the only two members who have so far endorsed the M.V.A. plan. Other members of the oommittee appear yet to be open minded. . ,

Two months ago the same committee spent two weeks in the Tennessee Valley. The committee was named to study the

bill (S. 555) and recommend to the state of

,Missouri whether it should 'approve or opp.ose .passage -of S. , 555. " So ' far Missouri

appears to be the only state in the basin that has not yet been ab~e to make tip its mind on the subject. -

FOH:me

Respectfully submitted, F. 0. , Hagie

Secrete.ry-l'bn!\.g-er

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHES ~ ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO 110 INCHES.

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DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PROFITABLE AND DIVERSIFIED IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-AN EX.

PANSION OF WAR FOOD PRODUCTION THROUGH MORE IRRIGATION-THE CREATION OF NEW FARM OPPORTUNITIES AND THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. AS LONG AS THIS NATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN POPULATION A MILLION PER YEAR. AND WE CONTINUE TO IMPORT ANNUALLY THE AGRI- g~iT~:I~L~:N~~CTS fROM MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION ACRES OF FOREIGN SOIL. WE NEED HAVE NO FEAR OF OVER·EXPANDING THE RECLAMATION OF

1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING. WASHINGTON 4. D. c. So tembcr 20, 1945 DIRECTORS VOTE TO HOLD FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AT DENVER NOVEMBER 14-15-16

President Bundy, in Washington to attend hearings on the Murray M.V.A. Bill (S.555) before a suboommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, after conferring with Directors, Sawyer, Ford, and Stone, who are also in Washington, has just completed a poll of all the directors on the question of whether or not to try and have an early meeting of the association, and if so, when to have it and where! In view of all the conditions, the direotors approved meeting again in Denver. The dates decided upon are November 14-15-16, the directors tc meet two

in advance on November 12 and 13. This is notice to all members to start planning now to attend.

The irrigation' farmers on 18,000,000 acres of privately developed irrigation farms and on 4,000,000 acres of federally constructed projects, and every person in the West that is interested in the future oonstruction of millions of acres of new irrigation, and land and water development projects, will find this yearts meeting a place to unite in the formulation of a peacetime program for western America such as has never been undertaken in the past. It is the hope of this office that .this year's convention can be so organized that those in attendance will be

to get at the root of all the most pressing problems with which they are confronted, and resolve them.

PROGRESS OF HEARINGS ON S.555 BEFORE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND REC tA}1AT ION

Hearings started September 18 on Senator Murray's M.V.A. Bill. Senator Murray of Montana was the first

This week will be devoted to advocates of the bill.

The Bureau of Reclamation witnesses will be heard September 24, followed by the oppo- nents of the bill. So far it appears

there are more opponent witnesses than there will be time for prop'3r pres0ntation. Perhaps some witnesses from the SElme locality may find it necess:lry to consolidate their statements and choose one spokesman for several available witnesses.

The Irriga.tion and Reclamation Subcommittee conducting the hearings is composed of Senator Jor..n H. Overton of Louis iana, Cha irl1(;j,nj Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexic 0; Senator Jos eph C. 0

lIahoney, WyoI11ing

Senator Chan Gurney, South Dakota;

Sen~tor

Hugh Butler,

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FOR RE(}rONAL i\.tJTHORITIES" BY CLIli'FORD H. STeNE

rThrough the, c()urtesy of Clifford H. stone, Director of the Colorado Water Con- servation

we attach a sto.tenent on the above subject which is an 'B-page reprint from The Mines Magazine of .July, 1945. It is a powerful statement.

We particularly call your attention to the bibliogre.phy of material in opposition to the M.V.A. and to all other authorities. This is the first such bibliography we have seen. We suggest you make the most of it by getting material for your friends

a.nd ne igh bors.

OFFICERS ORA BUNDY. PRESIDENT

ROBERT W. SAWYER. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT HARRY E. POLK. 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

PAUL W. APPLEGATE. WAKEENEY. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA

DIRECTORS H. D. STRUNK. McCOOK. 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 MILLARD G. SCOTT. PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA ELDON B. SMITH. MERCEDES. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON W. F. WILKERSON. CASPER. WYOMING

Vol. IX, NOe 15 _{- 2 -} September 20, 1945

THE NEW DEAL DREAMER

We enolose the reproduction of a newspaper mat for both your personal entertain- ment and as a suggestion for distribution among the newspapers of your area. These mats can be furnished at l2t each or in lots of 100 at $10.00.

"BUREAUCRACY RIDES THE RIVERS" BY REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM M. WHITTINGTON

Another enclosure is a timely artiole just received, entitled as above, whioh rou will find of interest.

PR1l1SIDENT TRUMAN'S MmSSAGE TO CONGRESS SEPrEMBER 6 URGES RECLAMATION

We quote the following paragraphs from President Truman's message to Congress.

In

veterans, the President said.

"Favorable consideration sh9Uld be given by the Congress to Federal reclama- tion projects as outstanding opportunities for returning veterans. The great Columbia Basin project in the Northwest, the projects in the I-fissouri River EB.sin, and others of equal significance ·will bring into existence many thousands of new family-size farms upon which returning veterans oan seoure a livelihood for themselves and their families and create new wealth for the Nation. A

ber of farms can be oade ready for veterans rapidly if legislation now pending is enacted without delay. This legislation would authorize necessary and pro· per assistance to veterans who seek to develop farm homes on irrigated lands in Federal reclamation project areas."

In discussing public works and national resources, the President saidc

"The long-range programs to conserve the precious inches of topsoil which, in many parts of the country, lie between plenty a.nd poverty were necessarily interrupted. We had neither the manpower nor the materials to spare for pro- jects to prevent the ravages of floods whioh oonstantly despoil our land. We had neither the men nor the facilities to continue a large·soale program of

"reclaiming land and of bringing new land into cultivation.

"With a few exceptions we were forced to suspend the program to which this Nation is committed of harnessing the waters of our great z-ivers so that they may become vehicles of commerce, beneficent producers of cheap electric power, and servants of the Nation instead of instruments of destruction.

"In brief, although during this war this Nation has reached the apex of its power--a peak of greatness and might which the world had never seen--our nation- al capital account has greatly suffered. We must proceed with all possible diligence not merely to restore these depleted resources to their prewar standards but to make them greater and richer than ever before.

"We should build and improve our roads .... -the arteries of commerce; we must harness our streams for the general welfare; we must rebuild and reclaim our

land; we must protect and restore our forests.

"This is not only to provide men and women with work, it is to assure to the Nation the very basis of its life. It is to play the part of a good business- man who insists carefully on maintaining and rebuilding his plant and machinery.

"We know that by the

of Federal , funds we can, within the limits

of our own Nation, provide for our citizens

frontiers--new territories for

the development of industry, agrioulture, and commerce.

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"We have before us the example of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has inspired regional resource development throughout the entire world.

"We know that we have progra.ms, c9.refully oonsidered and extensively debated,

for regional development of the Columbia River in the great Northwest, the Missouri River, the Central Vall ey of California, and the Arkansas River.

"In the Columbia Valley the first ma.jor step has been a ompleted f'or the reola- mation of barren land and the produotion of' enormous qunntities of power. The waters of the Missouri a.nd the Arkansas and the rivers of California oan be put to work to serve the national interest in a similar fashion.

t'If these rivers remain soOtH'ges of our Nation, it is only beoause we do not have the prudenoe to harness them for the benefit of our people. If there are among us for any period of time farmers who do not farm beoause there is no suitable land available to them; workers who do not work beoause there is no labor for their hands, we have only ourselves to blame so long as we fail to make available to them the opportunities before our very eyes.

"r hope that the Congress will proceed as rapidly as possible to authoriZe

regional development of the natural resources of our great river valleys.

nIt should be unneoessary to say that the oonservation and dovelopment of the national plant must proceed acoording to an intelligent and ooordinated design.

The watersheds of this Nation are not utterly independent, one of the other;

our irreplaooable wealth of minerals, land, and timber is not oomposed of seg- ments which can effeotively be dealt with separately. Any progra.m of publio works must have as its unifying purpose the greatest possible oontribution to the wealth of the Nation and to the wealth-producing capability of the Nation.

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"Shortages of materials and manpower made it neoessary in the interests of the wur effort to suspend

public works which might otherwise have been undert flken. Now that materials and manpower will' become more plentiful

we sho uld be prepared to undertake a program of useful public works, not only to improv e the physical plant of the United States but to provide

to great masses of our citizens when private

cannot do

Only such public works should now be undertaken, however

will not compete with the use of materials and manpower by privute industry_ Plans for other publio works should be perfected and put in reserve.

uIn this connection I have several reoommendt:1.tic'ns

U(l) During the war the construction of Federal public works hus been re ..

stricted to those necessary f'or national defense and the prosecution of tho war. Frojects whioh normally would have been constructed were deferred, and a large baoklog of needed construction has acoumulated. Plans for some of these projeots--specifically those relating to reolamation, rivers and harbors, flood control, and the conservation of our natural resources--are now ready, and their construction can go forward when funds are provided and materials and manpower are ava.ilable without oompeting with private industry. Plans for other Federal projects are being prepared through the use of funds wisely appro- priated by the Congress for advanco preparation. Additional funds are needed

for this purpose, and I urge that the Congress provide them."

FOHtme Enols-3

Respectfully submitted, F. O. Hagie.

Seoretary-Manager