8th Annual Meeting and Convention. Denver, Colorado

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PROCEEDINGS

Eighth Annual

Meeting and

Conventi011

Denver, Colorado

November 14-15-16

1939

Dedicated to the development of the West by translating the will of the people of the West on Irrigation, Reclamation and Water Conservation matters into action—results— accomplishments.

\ational Reclamation Association

97) NAT CDNAL PRFSS BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C.

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THE WHITE HOUSE Washington

October 28, 1939. My dear Mr. Warden:

It is a pleasure again to address a message to you on the occa-sion of the Eighth Annual Convention of the National Reclamation Association. I am proud of the advances made in the field of recla-mation since I sent my first letter of felicitations to your Associa-tion.

Work has been started, carried on, and completed on reclama-tion projects, great and small, throughout the arid West. This work is recognized as important and fruitful in our times and will con-tinue to return benefits to the United States for many generations. The conservation of water, by means of self-liquidating projects, for use in irrigation, for incidental power, and for the purpose of creating new homemaking opportunities in the West has for decades been an accepted and proved national policy. I am pleased that in recent years we have given this policy added meaning.

Recent legislation has extended benefits similar to those obtain-able under the Reclamation law to the Great Plains area on a busi-ness-like basis. The Reclamation Project Act of 1939 has provided a formula for repayments, which, without loss to the United States, will make the settlers' task less difficult, and this law also has es-tablished an intelligent plan for the consideration by the Bureau of Reclamation of associated public benefits when new irrigation proj-ects are being studied and designed. It is well, also, that under another authorization this year the Bureau of Reclamation and the Farm Security Administration are experimenting with a cooperative method which should make it easier for a family made homeless by continued drought successfully to make a place for itself on a new, irrigated farm.

We _{can all look forward, I am sure, to another successful year} for reclamation.

Very sincerely yours,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Mr. 0. S. Warden,

President, National Reclamation Association, Great Falls, Montana.

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PITHY PARAGRAPHS FROM THE DENVER MEETING

Looking across association effort of the last year. it is my opinion that reclamation, as we advocate it, has more friends in the Congress, and in the whole country, than ever before. The first session of the 76th Congress, that finished its work on August of this year, did more than any previous session for reclamation in money appropriations, and, of even greater importance, in the enact-ment of a flexible repayenact-ment and project operation law.

—From President Warden's Annual Message.

We face the problems of a new year with the largest and strongest membership in the association's history; our organization has been definitely strengthened in at least five states; western senators, congressmen and governors—almost to a man—are sup-porting this program as never before. At least two additional states are contemplating the advisability of joining hands with us in this common cause.

—From Secretary Hagie's Annual Report.

Water that passes below plant roots in excess of what is needed to leach away injurious minerals is wasted. Therefore, before irri-gating, estimate the root depth of plants and apply water to that depth'.

—From L. H. Mitchell's address "Fundamentals of Irrigation."

Methods of noxious weed control may broadly he classified into the two categories of cultural and chemical. Cultural methods are primarily directed at carbohydrate (starch and sugar) starva-tion in the root system, as this food can only be obtained from the green leaves. Chemical methods are largely root poisons.

—Front C. L. Corkin's address -Methods of Noxious Weed Con-trol."

We must hew the line, because by irrigation and related con-servation programs in this country we can peacefully work out our destiny. Our great works must be lines of life, as they are here today, and not the fortified lines of death they are elsewhere. Dams can be our forts, and canals our connecting network of trenches. Let the ramparts we watched symbolize the creation of civilization instead of serving as sentinels of doom.

—From coin missioner Page's address ':l Sector for the Future."

As have said before, our dealings with the Bureau of Recla-mation have been cordial and cooperative. Until recently, the cases in which .we have worked together have been comparativey few in

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number. Now that our paths are drawing closer together, I expect to see more and more of our friends, the Reclamation Engineers, and I am confident that these contacts will result in greater mutual respect as well as in better and bigger public works for water con-servation.

—From General Schley's address "Parallel Interests of the Bu-reau of Reclamation and the Army Engineers"

It may surprise some of you whose memories go back a bit, as mine does, to learn that the Department of Agriculture is play-ing on the same team with the Bureau of Reclamation, and with that Bureau as quarterback. Times have changed, and we're glad they have.

—From E. H. Wiecking's address "Land Use, Soil Conservation and Water Facilities."

Flood Control, and Irrigation and Reclamation interests in the arid and semi-arid states of the West are identical. Our com-mon objective is a coordinated program of (1) flood control, (2) water stabilization and (3) power development. Experience has taught us that the wisest and most economical policy of conserva-tion activity is one that recognizes the value of this combinaconserva-tion. —From address by Representative Short on "Flood Control and Its Assistance to Reclamation."

Partisan politics have not deterred the reclamation program but there has been difficulty in securing adequate appropriations for the reason that the fifteen western states where the projects are located has a small representation in Congress and have been faced with the problems of convincing the preponderant eastern members of the all-embracing national benefits of the program.

—From Representative White's address "Reclamation Legisla-tion in Congress."

It is generally known that some of the western states have either fallen behind in the movement for better legislation, or have made little use of such legislation after its adoption. Each state is alone responsible for the present condition of its water legislation. If that be defective, the reason is not that the state did not have access to very excellent advice on the subject. As indicated above, both Federal and state experts have been ready to assist for at least forty years.

—From progress report of Subcommittee on State Water Late by A. E. Chandler.

The development of the water resources is fraught with such wide national significance and at the same time is so intimately

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associated with the welfare of local interests that it is at once a national and a state problem. In the arid states it is a component part of land use and as has been stated "water problems merge into land problems and both water problems and land problems merge into human problems." Under our form of government hu-man and land problems are the concern of both the federal and state governments. It is patent, therefore, that the state has a very definite part as well as an obligation in the reclamation program. —From address by Clifford H. Stone on "What the States Ought to do for Reclamation in Planning and Cooperation."

Many federal reclamation projects already in operation but not paid out, as well as new ones that have been authorized, will not be successful, and some would probably fail, without the sugar beet industry.

—From Charles M. Kearney's address "The Domestic Sugar Problem."

This paper is not designed to present the question of exten-sion of the activities of the Bureau of Reclamation to drainage and land clearing projects either in a favorable or an unfavorable light. The purpose, rather, is to call attention in the convention to the growing agitation for such extension.

—From "Drainage and Clearing- by -William E. Warne.

Inasmuch as paucity of water is the greatest disadvantage of the Northern Pains, the effective control and efficient use of the scant supply is a matter of pivotal importance. Irrigation projects should be constructed in the region, as expeditiously as relevant considerations may warrant, wherever it is physically and economi-cally practicable to do so. This is desirable not only because of the superior utility of irrigated land but also because each regulary irrigated acre in the region may make possible the optimum use of twenty to twenty-five acres of neighboring grazing land through properly integrated farm programs.

—From Prof. Barrow's address "TVater Conserration Possibili-ties on. the Northern Great Plains."

The National Reclamation Association has become more than an organization; it is a movement. It is the authoritative voice of public opinion in reclamation, the civic ally of the Bureau of Recla-mation and the messenger of basic Western necessities to the Con-gress.

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I want to thank the Association for a public service it rendered by generously giving its support to our efforts to work out and present an intelligent, workable bill to introduce a greater degree of flexibility into the reclamation repayment contracts.

—Hon. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior.

My message to you is to keep up the good fight. Let us always have carefully considered teamwork in behalf of reclamation.

—Hon. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado.

Do you realize that there are three thousand counties plus in the United States and that in three hundred of those counties today are concentrated seventy-one per cent of all wage earners in the United States, and more than eighty per cent of all of those who draw salaries? From the farm to the city! From the land upon which man can make a living with his own hands to the city pave-ment where it is impossible for him to support himself and his family unless he has a job in industry and where he is economically free only so long as he can claim that job!

—From Senator O'Mahoney's address "The National Signifi-cance of Reclamation."

The conservation of water, by means of self-liquidating projects, for use in irrigation, for incidental power, and for the purpose of creating new homemaking opportunities in the West has for decades been an accepted and proved national policy. I am pleased that in recent years we have given this policy added meaning.

—President of D. Roosevelt.

National Reclamation Association

975 National Press Building _{Washington, D. C.}

0. S. WARDEN ORA BUNDY

(1939-40)

OFFICERS ROBERT W. SAWYER J. A. FORD FLOYD 0. HAG IF DIRECTORS HuGo B. FARMER, Yuma, Arizona

J. R. FAUVER, Exeter, California CLIFFORD H. STONE, Denver, Colorado N. V. SHARP, Filer, Idaho

W. E. DANNEFER, Burr Oak, Kansas 0. S. WARDEN, Great Falls, Montana C. E. ALTER, Alma, Nebraska

ALFRED M. SMITH, Carson City, Nev. J. A. FORD, Spokane, Washington PERRY W. JENKINS, Cora, Wyoming

President First Vice President Second Vice President Treasurer Secretary-Manager

E. W. BOIVEN, Tucumca ri, New Mex. K. W. SIMONS, Bismarck, No. Dakota FRANK RAAB, Canton, Oklahoma ROBERT W. SAWYER, Bend, Oregon W. D. BUCKHOLZ, Newell, So. Dakota CARL HINTON, Amarillo, Texas ORA BUNDY, Ogden, Utah

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Eighth Annual Meeting

PROGRAM Denver—November 14, 15, 16, 1939 Tuesday, November 14 8:30 A. M. to 1:00 P. M.—REGISTRATION OF DELEGATES Shirley-Savoy Hotel 10:00 A. M.—State Caucuses To Elect:

Member of Legislative Committee Member of Resolutions Committee Member of Board of Directors

and to discuss state reclamation problems 1:30 P. M. Convention convenes

Lincoln Room, Shirley-Savoy Hotel Call to Order, President 0. S. Warden

Invocation, Right Reverend Fred Ingley, Denver, Colorado Welcome to Denver, Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver President's Address, 0. S. Warden, Great Falls, Montana Reports of State Caucuses, by Director from each state Treasurer's Report, J. A. Ford, Spokane, Washington Secretary-Manager's Report, F. 0. Hagie, Washington, D. C. Announcements

Tuesday Evening 8:00 P. M.—Problems of the Water User

Round Table Discussion—Lincoln Room (Motion pictures and slides)

Ora Bundy, First Vice President, Ogden, Utah, presiding New Ideas in the Use of Water, L. H. Mitchell, Washington,

D. C.

Discussion led by: George D. Clyde, Logan, Utah, and Floyd Brown, Fort Collins, Colorado

Methods of Weed Control, C. L. Corkins, Powell, Wyoming Discussion led by: H. D. Finch, Grand Junction, Colorado, D. D.

Harris, Ogden, Utah

Improved Methods in Canal Maintenance, W. H. Robinson, Homedale, Idaho

Discussion led by: T. W. Parry, Mitchell, Nebraska, M. J. Dowd, El Centro, California, George 0. Sanford, Washington, D. C.

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Wednesday, November 15 9:45 A. M.—Future Reclamation Session

Robert W. Sawyer, Second Vice-President, Bend, Oregon, pre-siding

A Sector for the Future, John C. Page, Washington, D. C. Contribution of Army Engineers to Reclamation, Major General

Julian L. Schley, Washington, D. C.

Land Use, Soil Conservation and Water Facilities, E. H. Wieck-ing, Washington, D. C.

Flood Control and Its Assistance to Reclamation, Hon. Dewey Short, Galena, Missouri

Announcements

12:15 P. M.—Luncheon, Empire Room, Auspices of Governor's Committee Hon. Lawrence Lewis, Denver, Colorado, presiding.

Entertainment by Lester Harding, Golden-Voiced Baritone Community Planning on Reclamation Projects in Holland, S. R.

DeBoer, Denver, Colorado. 2:00 P. M.—Afternoon Session

President 0. S. Warden, presiding

Reclamation Legislation in Congress, Hon. Compton I. White, Clarks Fork, Idaho

The Repayment Law—Its Provisions and Aims, J. M. Lampert, Boise, Idaho

Comments from the Floor and Answers to Questions by John C. Page, Washington, D. C.; J. K. Cheadle, Washington, D. C.; R. 0. Chambers, Minatare, Nebraska; G. W. Grebe, Kuna, Idaho

Progress Report of Subcommittee on State Water Law, Water Resources Committee of National Resources Planning Board, A. E. Chandler, San Francisco, California

What the States Ought to do for Reclamation in Planning and Cooperation. Clifford H. Stone, Denver, Colorado

Announcements

4:00 P. M. to 8:30 P. M.—Trip through Denver headquarters, Bureau of Reclamation, by groups of states according to announcements, starting at 4 o'clock, R. F. Walter, Chief Engineer, and staff, hosts

Thursday, November 16 9:45 A. M.—Production and Planning Session

The Domestic Sugar Problem, Charles M. Kearney, Morrill, Nebraska

Sugar Beet Acreage on Reclamation Projects, Hon. James F. O'Connor, Livingston, Montana

Sugar Beet Expansion—Legislation Needed, Hon. Fred Cum-mings, Fort Collins, Colorado

Drainage and Clearing, William E. Warne, Washington, D. C. Announcements

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12:15 P. M.—Luncheon, Empire Room, Auspices of Governor's Committee J. A. Ford, Spokane, Washington, presiding

Entertainment by Kay Andre, Sweetheart of Songs

A National Planning Board—How It Should be Constituted, L. Ward Bannister, Denver, Colorado

2:00 P. M.—Final Session

Water Conservation Possibilities on the Northern Great Plains, Prof. Harlan H. Barrows, Chicago, Illinois

The Great Plains Program in Congress, Hon. Francis Case, Custer, South Dakota

2:50 P. M.—Business Session

Report of Auditing Committee Report of Budget Committee Report of Legislative Committee Report of Resolutions Committee Choice of next convention city

First Meeting of New Board of Directors

Thursday Evening 7:00 P. M.—Annual Banquet

Lincoln Room, (informal) Auspices of Governor's Committee Toastmaster, Hon. Ralph L. Carr, Governor of Colorado Entertainment by

University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra Men of the West

Jack O'Rourke, accompanied by Beverly Smith Messages from Friends, President 0. S. Warden In Appreciation of Hon. Edward T. Taylor of Colorado

The National Significance of Reclamation, Hon. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, U. S. Senator from Wyoming

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGIITH ANNUAL MEETING of the

National Reclamation Association

Shirley-Savoy Hotel

Denver, Colorado TUESDAY AFTERNOON

November 14, 1939

CALL TO ORDER

The Eighth Annual meeting of the National Reclamation As-sociation was called to order on Tuesday afternoon, November 14, 1939, at 1 :45 o'clock p. m., in the Lincoln room of the Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver, Colorado, with Doctor 0. S. Warden, president of the association, presiding. The proceedings are as follows:

0. S. Warden: The National Reclamation Association was born beneath the dome of the historic capitol of the state of Utah in the city of Salt Lake on December 5, 1932. A meeting of western governors had set aside the day for serious discussion. There was a question of deep concern to be considered: Shall reclamation survive as a national policy or pass into history as an unapproved thirty-year federal experiment? This was a critical period for recla-mation in the west. There were ninety-one delegates. Marshall M. Dana was named president of the new organization. Kenneth C. Miller was named the secretary.

We have come to each succeeding convention with increasing numbers. This is the eighth annual meeting of the delegates that I am asking to be in order for its opening session. The blessings of heaven have been showered upon us as the snows of the winter fall upon the great Rocky Mountains.

Appreciating these blessings, it is fitting that we first call for the invocation as we begin our work of the day by the Right Reverend Fred Ingley.

INVOCATION

Right Reverend Fred Ingley- : 0 God, our help in ages past and our hope for the coming years, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for the manifold blessings bestowed upon this nation and people. In particular we implore Thy fatherly benediction on the work of this association now assembling in Thy name and presence. Prosper our plans and purposes for reclaiming arid lands and making them productive. Enable us through Thy guidance to transform waste places into gardens of fruitfulness and to make the desert bring forth good things that we, rejoicing in Thy bounty, may contribute to the welfare of all of our children.

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10 NATIONAL RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION

Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and permanence. In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness and in the day of trouble suffer not our trust in Thee to fail. All of which we ask through Him who has taught us to say—let us repeat in unison the Lord's Prayer.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy king-dom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive our trespassers as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

0. S. Warden: There is always a double pleasure in a welcome if the visitor is glad to come. The delegates to this convention arrived in Denver, the gem city of the great Rocky Mountain country, with hearts and minds fully in tune for friendly fellow-ship.

We are informed that Denver is a mile high. I expect the Mayor to tell us how wide.

The delegates, I am sure, will try to obey the laws of the state and the ordinances and rules and regulations that are usually observed by your good people.

We have come with a measure of expectation, recalling what an eloquent citizen from Denver said to us at Reno a year ago about his home city.

We are to have a welcome by the Honorable Benjamin F. Stapleton, the mayor of Denver.

Mr. Mayor, we await your welcome and your admonition. ADDRESS OF WELCOME

Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton: Mr. President, members of the association, and guests: I wasn't present at Reno, have not been informed of what promises may have been made, but what-ever they were I am ready to back them up and make good on them. We are delighted to have you here and particularly this group of men, a group who are doing something, doing something con-structive, doing something that is building not only for today, but for the future, and we are glad to have you come to Denver, a community that has prospered on account of the kind of work you gentlemen are now doing.

We are sure, and we accept the president's statement and agreement, that you are all going to comply with the laws. We had already accepted that without any assurance, but we want you to enjoy yourselves; we want you to make yourselves at home. If there is anything that you can remember that was said down at

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Reno that induced you to come here, I hope you will remind us and let us make good on anything that was said, as I stated be-fore, at Reno.

Now, as I say, I have been allotted fifteen minutes. Now, I will give you back ten so that you can enjoy yourselves and get to work, because I would be repeating something that somebody has said at Reno or what somebody will say before the convention is over; so I will leave some time for somebody. Enjoy yourselves. If there is anything we can do to contribute to the pleasure of the convention or any of the individuals we would be delighted to have you call us.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. (Applause).

ANNUAL MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT 0. S. Warden, Great Falls, Montana

This annual message opens the routine work of the eighth annual convention of your association. For the fourth time I have the privilege of reviewing the progress of a year—of trying to re-veal the problems of today and tomorrow. In my four years of service as your president there has been a full measure of satisfying opportunity. The reasons are evident. I have had two secretaries whose heart and soul were in the work—A board of directors ready to put their shoulders into the yoke and pull, whenever there has been a need so to do—a continually increasing and loyal mem-bership—a government at Washington, from the White House down (through all of the cooperating agencies, sympathetic in attitude and helpful in the active support of reclamation as an established national policy. These perennial blessings merit expression of ap-preciation by this convention.

The history of reclamation from the pioneering of the Spanish missionaries, even unto the engineering facility of Boulder dam, has presented a constant problem of how to develop the greatest natural resource in any country, the land and the v-a ter—using the water here and there and over again—taking the moisture that the mountains sent down to the plains for storage or flow—and if we are ready, on to measuring gates and to fertile fields.

There were Many mistakes and repeating tragedy in the early chapters of reclamation history. There has been much to learn since the government began an organized effort in 1902. There are delegates in this convention who remember the governors' meeting of 1932 when it was feared, after evident accomplishment, that the reclamation ship would smash upon the rock of eastern op-position, or upon the crags of non-support. When I became your president, there were scanty funds to support reclamation work--there was no one in Washington or elsewhere providing support for the missionaries who were preaching the reclamation gospel.

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This association had neither cash nor credit. At congressional com-mittee meetings in Washington there was neither a cordial welcome nor a pleasant goodbye. When we began to declare that the existent legislative moratorium must come to an end, or reclamation with a depleted revolving fund would die, there was no need for re-frigeration in the room. Those were the dark days. At the reclama-tion conference of 1932, with 91 delegates attending, John Haw, veteran supporter of reclamation, declared there was no light in the picture—that something had to be done or the revolving fund would shrink to a vanishing point, and authorized work would have to stop. A timid resolution was only brave enough to ask congress for sympathetic consideration—and a small advance of funds. It looked like and felt like winter at Valley Forge for reclamation.

By way of comparison, the present situation is one of distinct advantage. There is dependable revenue reaching out into the future—assured by legislative enactment. The moratorium menace is no more. The Washington office is making friends, and, I am sure, is continually assisting the Bureau of Reclamation. We have come out from the darkness of the moratorium night into the morning of a new day.

A review of the reclamation appropriations made by the last congress requires only a paragraph. Nearly $90,000,000 is the total of new money. With unused balances there is available for the construction period of this year considerably more than $100,000,-000. The appropriated funds include more than $9,000,000 from the reclamation fund for the building of 17 projects, and $50,000,-000 from the general fund for 7 projects. There was added $4,$50,000,-000,- $4,000,-000 for Indian projects and $5,000,000 for the so-called Great Plains program. This last major item was 'supplemented by $7,500,000 of WPA relief funds to assist the expenditure. Forty-four CCC camps are helping reclamation.

The toughest nut to crack in the last session of congress was our appeal to increase the amount of funds for investigating new projects. The $200,000 of the previous year's appropriation was not enough to sufficiently engineer projects under way. Through pegging away at house and senate committees this item was raised to $900,000. That was a reclamation victory in itself. This much about finances—looking backward.

What about tomorrow? Speaking generally, I take it the gov-ernment will furnish larger projects like the Central Valley of California and the Grand Coulee in Washington with funds from the general treasury. There is no other consistent thing to do. If, however, we are to have a balanced reclamation program there-after, the revolving fund must be temporarily increased above the present assured flow of funds—until repayments come from recla-mation investment in the big projects— speaking concretely until the Hayden-O'Mahoney amendment assists the revolving fund. The

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money in sight for continuing planned expenditures upon smaller projects will adequately carry through the fiscal year of 1940-41. The outlook for the five years immediately following, beginning with the fiscal year 1941-42, is not so good unless an intermediate general assistance is supplied by the congress. This is the time to consider such a sustaining plan.

There are a number of suggestions. The Great Plains program could be extended, assisted by WPA funds, or by cooperation with department of agriculture appropriations. A revival of public works appropriations—with a bracket applying to reclamation— has considerable western approval. Lending proposals such as were before the senate in the last congress—without grants—may be revived. The government may offer cooperative money to be matched by the states—like the federal highway plan. In a con-sideration of these or other proposals, it is correct to say that the reclamation states of the west prefer useful public works—with reclamation included—rather than continuing expenditures for unemployment relief.

The generous support of reclamation by the federal govern-ment forbids over-much comparison or criticism, but it is not an impertinence to repeat a conclusion that was presented to this convention a year ago. If the general relief funds expended in the 15 western states since July 1, 1935, amounting now to more than a billion dollars, had been applied to reclamation, no western farmer would now be obliged to search for good land. In the single year ending June 30, 1939, relief expenditures in these 15 western states was more than $310,000,000—ranging all the way from $1,-700,000 in Nevada to nearly $92,000,000 in California. That money would have built the Shasta dam. The amount for my home state was more than $15,000,000 for this last fiscal year. There would be a jubilee celebration in Montana if that amount should come along for reclamation.

In my remarks at the opening of our convention at Reno last year, reference was made to the building of 18 reclamation projects by my home state, Montana, in cooperation with the public works administration—the engineering and supervision supplied by state revenue—plus federal grants—plus bond issues enabled by water sales contracts completinc, the expenditure. Nearly complete figures are now in the record. The total investment will be $8,000,000. There is reclamation benefit to 328,000 acres of land. The facilities will. store 360,000 acre feet of water. The average repayable cost is low. If the congress makes further public works appropriations, Montana would like to have reclamation brackets included. It has been and is an interesting and profitable investment. Each one of these projects has already shown, or quite soon will prove itself economically sound. If I add a personal opinion, it would be that the states can help themselves in this way if they will. They can find and make ready feasible projects. State investigation, with

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cooperative expenditure, may bring feasibility into many reclama-tion projects. These suggesreclama-tions contemplate the states offering some of their own money to the government. Reclamation doesn't

have to be like a one-way street.

In any event, we are not near to the end of the reclamation trail. Soil fertility, land productivity, the resettlement of wandering farm families still make up a national problem. Supplementary water is needed for many projects. We cannot rest with accomplish-ment. Reclamation, like other great enterprises, can only go forward if we continue to lead and to push. The tremendous mountains of the west will keep the snows of winter until the spring is warm, but following what has been done by diversion, we must plan and build storage to hold the water—all of the remaining available water—for the peak demand of the summer.

In the last four of our conventions there has been plenty of history—the federal story has become a reclamation catechism-150 dams—ditches long enough to reach around the world-50 inci-dental power plants—increased taxable value to balance the govern-ment investgovern-ment—an annual crop production equal to 451.00 for every person who lives in the United States—hurting no one be-cause we buy more than we sell—making markets greater than those we enter trying to sell—building the west into a great self-supporting area. If I could stop to review 37 years of government accomplishment, it would only recount what you know from A to Z. Looking across association effort of the last year, it is my opinion that reclamation, as we advocate it, has more friends in the congress, and in the whole country, than ever before. The first session of the 76th congress, that finished its work in August of this year, did more than any previous session for reclamation in money appropriations, and, of even greater importance, in the enactment 4,f a flexible repayment and project operation law, there have now been written into a comprehensive statute provisions, based upon the experience of 37 years plus studies by a competent research commission. The ability to pay out of the harvest of the year is the key note of this statute. The purpose of this reclama-tion act is to fairly protect the investment of the government, but to let no collecting person injure a single water user who is honestly trying to meet his obligation.

There was a half year grind writing this law—from 'January to June. There was interminable difficulty in the search for a nor-mal formula that would fit a group of projects operating under arying contractual provisions. I was in Washington several times while this adaptation study was puzzling interested agencies. The chairman of your legislative committee came to the national capitol representing the water Users. The days were speeding along so fast there was danger that this repayment measure would not pass at all before the end of the session. It was a tight squeeze. It was one of those instances where an inch is as good as a mile. This

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statute is the most important reclamation enactment by the con-gress since the passage of the original measure of 1902. The presi-dent signed the measure on August 4. It was the end of a long trail. This convention and its committees may wisely make an examination of this new statute, from preamble to final provision. T hope we have a law that merits approval.

The production of sugar beets, and their conversion into sugar, has become a matter of importance to this association—primarily because sugar beets are a leading cash crop upon reclamation proj-ects in 10 or 11 states of the west. The present sugar quota law expires in 1940. Production has already been hindered in the United States. A new law will be considered, by the next congress. To say that this is a ticklish subject does not justify evasion. Sugar is not one of our surplus crops----therefore, the farmers of the United States have a moral as well as an economic right to preference. The home farmer in a dozen or more of the 48 states, the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands—all under the American flag—seeks a progressively increasing acreage opportunity—under quotas or otherwise—and protection from sugar imports enough to insure the home production. There are practical difficulties in the way. We may as well face them pleasantly if we can, but, never-theless, firmly. Home labor has an interest and is entitled to con-sideration. American capital—large amounts—has become en-tangled in the Cuban sugar business—and you can depend upon it—a mortgage will follow its dollar a long way within this "good neighbor" doctrine that we hear so much about these days. Never-theless, you will perhaps agree with me that the administration at Washington and the congress of the United States ought to be a cordial neighbor of the sugar beet farmer at home. The federal irrigation congress in session at Sidney, Montana, a few weeks ago resolved that representatives and senators from western states be urged to make every effort to secure the liberalization of quotas in the 1940 sugar act, to the extent that sugar beet quotas may be increased so that farmers on reclamation project farms may be practically unrestricted in the acreage that they may plant.

I hesitate to predict how the congress will adjust these sugar production issues. There is need of study—a complete study—a consideration of what is fair to the individual grower who now enjoys a satisfying acreage, fair to the new regions that need the privilege of raising a surely profitable cash crop, fair to the sugar factories in the United States, fair to existing home refineries, fair to American labor now employed in the industry. Clearly, western senators and congressmen have a responsibility. Personally, I have enough faith in the congress to believe that it will be unable to look the American farmer in the face, and say that he cannot raise as much as he may wish of a non-surplus cash crop to pay the gov-ernment what he owes upon his reclamation farm.

Speaking a little further about trading with other countries, I am sure we are all pleased if the United States has friendly

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ternational neighbors. I am certain also we wish to be fair, even if interests differ somewhat, east or west—north or south. This is a far reaching country. I was born and raised in New England. When we traded horses back there, the object was to get a little better horse each time. I am in favor of world trade—of reciprocal trade treaties—provided we get a bit the long end of the swap. And, I am not revealing a secret when I say that the farmers and stock-men of my country are not enthusiastic over some of these trade treaty trends. The present Canadian trade treaty does not have the approval of the western half of the United States. American business men if they build canneries in Argentina are likely to bring about the same situation that developed when financial interests put their money into Cuban sugar plantations and refineries. They may be helping a foreign country, but they are not particularly good neighbors of the American farmer.

The middle west and the west have to largely earn thir way through agricultural and stock raising. The National Reclamation Association has secured import figures from the research division of the Raw Materials National council. It is a matter of serious concern when we learn that agricultural imports for the year 1938; based upon displacement in United States dollar values, reached the sum of $2,600,000,000, and that it would have required more than 40,000,000 American acres to produce these imports. A like record for 1935, 1936 and 1937 does not reassure the farmer. During the last year total exports have been going down. In the same period agricultural imports have been maintained or increased. It may take a long time, but we will learn after a while that these trade tariffs are a regional and economic—not a political question.

A new problem has come to the National Reclamation Associa-tion in the last year. This associaAssocia-tion is requested to take an in-terest in a dual enterprise—the drainage of swamp lands, and the clearing of stump acreage. This sort of land improvement has like-wise been urged upon the officials of the Bureau of Reclamation. These proposals arise within, or are a part of a nation-wide ap-preciation of the importance of land use in the United States. Before we reach a conclusion, there are a number of tests. In the rehabili-tation of land, pre-classification is just as important as it is before we develop the virgin prairie. There is a need to know something about potential productivity. Further, will the drained or the cleared stump land contribute to the general welfare of the region, as well as to the welfare of the whole nation? Will there be a farmer demand for the improved land? Finally, will the general increment of value justify the cost? These are the tests if the Bureau of Recla-mation, and this association, are to recommend these enterprises to the states and to the government.

This convention further is close up to a compelling national situation. The congress that convenes in January will appropriate

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large sums for the national defense. The whole country will ask— what about safety for the nation? I am wondering then if this convention can suggest an answer to this challenging question.

Can we learn something if we look to what happened after the World war? Nearly every nation entered upan a diligent effort to diversify natural production—increasing each crop of the field. building new industrial life, searching its mines for mineral re-sources, bent upon meeting needs that had been emphasized by a war shortage—in other words, striving for self-sufficiency. Na-tionalistic was the word used. Call it what you will—the whole world went at it. In the realm of production there was a commerce declaration of independence. Now we are in another war. There will again be transitions in commerce—world-wide ambitions will again lead up to new situations. Permit here a question, please— what nations have always been unafraid and strong—shall I say invincible? A single paragraph is sufficient in reply. Those places and people where, under an encouraging government, free indi-viduals have carried on studious research that has enabled diversi-fied industrial production, where other free individuals farmed the land—working to bring every natural resource into the na-tion's storehouse—indeed there can be no greater national strength in time of peace, there can be no stronger national defense in time of war—cities with strength of industry—country life supplying its useful abundance—hunting out in sufficiency every mineral that can make its contribution—this is where reclamation and the west come into the national defense formula—with a balancing agricul-ture, and with material from a thousand mountains.

In the great war the United States paid from four to eight times the peace cost price for deficient strategic minerals. Govern-ment agencies now say we can discover supplies of antimony. chromium, manganese, mercury, nickel, tin, tungsten—I need not add more names. You can read the government reports. The last congress appropriated $100,000,000 for the accumulation of such materials. The American congress and the American people with one voice are now for national defense. It will be so when the con-gress convenes. When there is a proposal of money for the army, we will with one accord say "Yes." If there is suggestion of funds for the navy, or the air force, again we will say "Yes." Recruit the army—build the navy, fabricate for the air, but I would like to persuade you that there is more than this to national defense. A wide extending nation like the United States, strong in every sinew and muscle of daily living—north and south, east and west—with every natural resource developed, with quick transportation to as-semble and distribute—has no need to fear. We do not wave flags in the home, but we feed the soldier, sustain industry and lay corner stones of national confidence. The reclamation farm of the new west, the minerals and materials in the mountains, and the power to prepare them for utility—these things I urge can make a tremendous contribution to the national defense.

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When the world is at peace again, we will still be making plans for reclamation. Wherever there is snow in a deep gorge or upon a high mountain in this western country, the people who live below may profit thereby. Wherever water flows over a spillway, there is still something to do. Wherever land in a water shed has been misused, there is a farm problem. Wherever care has not maintained construction, something can be done about it. Wherever the water flow does not meet the peak need of a season, a new plan may help. Wherever there is a long journey from the mountain spring to the sea, differing uses of the water often enable a multiple project. These problems still challenge this association—will con-tinue to challenge the states and the national government until all the water is at the gateway of service.

We said we could build a new west. Enough has been done to justify the faith. If we keep the faith, there will be another forest along the mountain slope—there will be new grass waiting for the flocks and the herds—there will be fertile fields along each stream—the pasture land and the green valleys will bring abund-ance at the harvest time.

The song of the pioneer can still be "Home on the Range," but in the greater west we are making there will be new hopes and new realizations—a song that cannot die: "From the mountains to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam—God bless America —my home sweet home."

(Applause).

A RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION OF PRESIDENT WARDEN'S SERVICES

Ora Bundy: Mr. Chairman, may I at this time have the privi-lege of the floor for a few moments for a special purpose?

0. S. Warden: If there is no objection. Ora Bundy: Any objection?

(No response).

0. S. Warden: Gentlemen, Mr. Ora Bundy, first vice president of the National Reclamation Association.

Ora Bundy: Mr. President, His Excellency, Governor Smith, Your Honor, Mayor Stapleton, Congressman White, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen of this convention:

You have just heard your honorable president tell you of the growth of this association from a mere handful in 1932 to its size today. It happened that I had the privilege of being at Salt Lake and have had the privilege of being with the association ever since. First, we were fortunate in having a leader, a magnanimous person, one with a lot of magnetism, who took us a long way, but soon he had to drop out. We _{looked about then for another leader.} We were fortunate then in finding in Montana a man, a lovable character, a man of great ability, whose friends are legion, who

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had the practicality of purpose, the sincerity- of effort, and the ability to do things, who had entree to high officials in Washing-ton and other places which is necessary to carry on the great

work of this organization.

In that man we secured Doctor 0. S. Warden, our president. For four long years he has headed this organization and I think it is mainly through his efforts that we have reached the point of efficiency that we have now obtained, and are able to accomplish the things that our organization has accomplished through the government officials and the Bureau of Reclamation. At this time I would be happy to tell you a great deal about Mr. Warden, but I am not on the program. I am only usurping a few moments here to give to him as a small token of appreciation from the directors of this association for the work that he has done and for the comradeship and association which his been ours and which we have so greatly enjoyed, this gavel made from the woods of the fifteen western irrigation states.

This gavel is made of significant woods personally selected by each of us as directors from our respective states, each piece of wood bears some very particular background and legend. For instance, from Idaho there is a piece of spruce that is more than sixteen hundred years old, determined by the circular rings of the tree which was cut down in 1928, and was still living at that time. From Nevada we have a piece of wood that was used in the diversion canal that was built in Nevada in 1869, long before irri-gation was put into effect as a government project.

From Utah we have a piece of wood from the Lyon House of Brigham Young. That was the home that he established in Salt Lake City on practically the spot where the Temple now stands, and which we in Utah claim to be the daddy of reclamation. When Brigham Young and his little band went in there, as you know, they took their ox teams and plowed furrows in that area which is now occupied by the Temple, and started their first crops through irrigation by means of those crude channels.

And I might go through the other states: Oregon, Texas, Mon-tana, Idaho, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, California, and New Mexico—all of the fifteen states, and they are represented here in this gavel and in this base on which is inscribed, these words: "In appreciation of four fruitful years of inspiring leadership as president of the National Reclama-tion AssociaReclama-tion, this gavel and base, made from significant wood from each of our fifteen reclamation states, is presented to you. Doctor 0. S. Warden, by the board of directors at Denver, Novem-ber 14, 1939."

In presenting this to you, Doctor Warden, we do so with heart-felt gratitude for the work you have done, for the splendid way in which you have received our requests as directors, the deep consideration that you have given all problems that have

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come before you, and we trust that when your fine work is ended with this association and you find it necessary to toss the torch to someone else, that the torch will be received and held high as by yourself in the interest of the reclamation of this western country. (Applause).

PRESIDENT WARDEN RESPONDS

0. S. Warden: Gentlemen of the convention, distinguished guests: This is the second or third time that a valued friend of this organization has asked for the privilege of the floor and has given me something that I am able to highly prize for the rest of my natural life.

It is just impossible for anyone in a surprised moment of this kind to put within an adequate wording the things that are in the heart and in the mind. Perhaps, I am in about the same position as some of our distinguished congressmen and senators are down in Washington. They have to fix up something a little different for the record. But I do wish to have this convention and this board of directors and all of the supporters of this splended organi-zation understand that I deeply appreciate your kindness.

I think I will add one thing more. If I had been at home last evening I would have been a guest at a fifty-year dinner given by the members of the typographical union who work for my news-paper. At that dinner there was expressed appreciation for the fifty years of collective bargaining without a break in the thread. So it is, I think, in our business and in our civic work, whatever it may be. The greatest rewards are in the fellowship of the people with whom we work.

I can say honestly that I value the fifty years of peace with the people who are in my employ more than I value the news-paper building and the presses and the stock of news-paper.

(Applause).

So I would add in like vein: I appreciate the good fellowship and the kindness and the friendship that have come to me in the four years that I have had an opportunity to serve you more than I value anything else that has been done, substantial as I think the accomplishments have been, not through the little that T have done, but because a board of directors and a loyal member-ship have been meeting together and joining hands and working with a common purpose.

I thank you, and I hope this association will keep on and on until the last gallon of water—in this whole great western empire--has been put to beneficial use.

(Applause).

We have these personal friendships and fellowship with co-workers from day to day, but we also enjoy the united support of many congressmen and the senators in Washington. It is really encouraging when we are working for this thing, that thing and the other thing to have such support. It is a most important

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fribution to a complete accomplishment. Indeed at the moment I have received from the secretary the names of gentlemen who have helped us and who are here. We would like to have these gentlemen up here where we can thank them for their part in what we have accomplished during the last year.

Congressman Lewis of Colorado. (Applause.) Congressman White of Idaho. (Applause.)

Perhaps you would like to give us a three minute talk. Honorable Compton I. White. (Applause.)

Honorable Compton I. White: Mr. President and members of the National Reclamation Association: As I am scheduled to talk to you on a subject tomorrow, I would like to take advantage of this particular occasion to express my appreciation of the wonderful work and the great assistance being given reclamation and the development of our country by the National Reclamation Associ-ation.

We, in representing the people of the west in our responsibility as members of the Congress, find that in recent years that through responsibility the work for reclamation has been increased. There is a certain misconception and misunderstanding of the people of this country of the actual benefits that they themselves and that the nation as a whole is receiving from reclamation.

They seem to overlook the great principles and the great pol-icies that have been followed in building this country, in making it a great nation by reclaiming our land and settling it up with sub-stantial citizens and the building of large communities that have expanded our markets. They don't seem to get the picture as to just what reclamation means to the country as a whole.

We of course who sit on the floor of the house of representa-tives and in the senate hear members in the industrial sections of the east, or large industrial districts of the middle states chide us for our efforts to continue our policy of building the country and reclaiming new land and building new communities. They say, "You are competing with us. You are taking land out of production. Why develop new communities and put more land into produc-tion ? Give us an answer."

And do you know, to formulate that answer and to bring home that answer, this great organization, this cooperating organization, is doing a wonderful work, and the whole country is indebted to the enterprise of your secretary and to your president and to you who are providing for the work that they are doing in Wash-ington, a wonderful statistical and fact-finding organization, that

presents the facts.

Congressmen in Washington can't drop everything and de-vote their entire time to developing the facts and doing the re-search work that is necessary to bring this cause to the country as a whole. We must have support and help; and you, the members

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of the National Reclamation Association, by supporting this splen-did organization and putting your officers down there in Wash-ington and giving us that help are doing a great work for the country.

I want to express my appreciation and congratulations. I thank you. (Applause).

0. S. Warden: Congressman Lewis shakes his head. I don't know what he is shaking his head at me for, but you are going to hear him speak. He has charge of a luncheon. If you will give us just a word now and then we will wait for more tomorrow. (Ap-plause).

Hon. Lawrence Lewis: Mr. Chairman, and members of this splendid meeting of the association: I shall have the pleasure of talking with you briefly tomorrow, but I think I am the only rep-resentative at the moment here from our Colorado delegation in congress unless Congressman Cummings has come in since T en-tered the room.

I want to say that we members of the house and senate of the congress feel it is a great honor to have the privilege of entertain-ing in our state the members of this splendid association. And, incidentally, as I can only wish to echo the words of welcome of the mayor of our city, I assure you as the representative of the congress from Denver, I am delighted to be able to welcome this splendid meeting to my home town. And I wish to echo also what Congressman White has so eloquently and adequately expressed. Congressman Horton of Wyoming is here. (Applause).

0. S. Warden: Congressman Horton of Wyoming. (Applause). Will you give us a word?

Congressman Frank 0. Horton: I am just a freshman down at Washington. About the first thing you learn down there is like a freshman at your School of Mines, you are not allowed to say

much. You are supposed to keep quiet.

0. S. Warden: We will keep you working all of the while. Congressman Horton: I think I am better at the end of a shovel than I am trying to talk to you up here. I do want to ex-press approval of the good work that has been done in reclama-tion, and I want to say a word about the work that still has to be done.

The thing that Congressman White points out—you don't know why it should be, but it is, this holy fear that we of the west are going to cause it to rain on land that never had rain on it before and raise a crop that will be in competition with some-thing that they are raising back east.

That is something we have to overcome. This organization has done a great work along that line. We have to do more than

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that. This west of ours has to find more effective representation if necessary through our various parties.

There is nothing political about the thing that we are gathered here for today. It has no political phase so far as you and I are concerned, but in order to get the answer it may be necessary for all of the parties to get together on the things that we know are necessary for the great west.

The west has to have more representation and the east to have less if we are going to carry on and do the work that is necessary to do. (Applause).

0. S. Warden: We are also hunting around for Congressman Curtis of Nebraska. Is he in the room?

Governor Smith of Wyoming, I think you ought to say a word at this point. (Applause).

We want to make the governors work, too.

Hon. Nels H. Smith: Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of this association: I just came down here to listen because I know this is a valuable organization to the western states. All I have to say here is this: That I hope you continue in the good work you are doing, because this is something that is worth while for all of these western states.

It is a great thing to unite all of these states, because then you can really do something back in Washington.

I thank you. (Applause).

0. S. Warden: Judge Stone, I have a memorandum that you wish to say something to the convention.

Judge Clifford H. Stone: Mr. President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: The arrangements committee of Denver is here at work; so all I have to offer amounts to a few announce-ments which I should like to get before you.

We, of course, desire to make this convention as enjoyable as possible, but in order to do that we wish to have you cooperation with respect to the luncheons and banquets. It is necessary to make arrangements with the hotel, and may we ask you at this time to secure your luncheon and banquet tickets. With reference to these luncheons, may I call your attention to two events.

Tomorrow noon at 12:15 our own Congressman Lewis is pre-siding and he will have something to say to you about reclamation. We have recognized here in Colorado a tireless worker for the cause in Congressman Lewis.

Then there is the other feature which I am sure you will all enjoy. Mr. S. R. DeBoer, who not so long ago was in Holland, will give an illustrated lecture on "Community Planning on Reclama-tion Projects in Holland."

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There is also a very interesting entertainment feature by Lester Harding, the golden-voiced baritone.

I am sure you will not want to miss this luncheon. May I say that this is for our reclamation people and all of our friends who are here. It is an affair arranged particularly for those who are attending the convention.

Then, on Thursday, Mr. J. A. Ford of Spokane, Washington, will preside. We will have an entertainment feature by Kay Andre. We are sure you will enjoy that.

We come now to another congressman, Honorable Dewey Short of Missouri. He is the president of the National Rivers and Harbors congress. He comes from that central part of the country that has been mentioned here, and we recognize in him a friend for reclamation; and although some of us have not heard him we understand that he is an outstanding speaker. Surely you will not want to miss that luncheon. So may I again ask you to acquire your luncheon tickets at as early a date as possible.

Then, with respect to the banquet on Thursday evening, we have an unusual opportunity. We have the first time when we can honor our Congressman Taylor from the western part of Colo-rado. You all recognize in him an outstanding leader, over thirty years of time in this movement, and surely we will all want to join in that.

Our own Governor Carr will be the presiding officer and toast-master on that occasion, and we shall have some interesting en-t eren-tainmenen-t.

Then, the principal address of the banquet will be given by Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming. He has become in the com-paratively short time he has been in Washington, an outstanding leader in the reclamation movement.

As to other announcements: This is addressed to the Colorado delegation. A few years ago Jim Ford entertained the National Reclamation Association and he brought in more than one hundred and fifty registrations from Washington.

Now, Colorado does not let any state get ahead of it, and I am going to ask the Colorado people to all register and to bring that up above the 150-mark. A number I know are coming tomorrow, but I fear there are many who have not yet registered.

Then, I wish to make an announcement concerning the pro-gram for the visiting ladies. We do not forget the women who attend these conventions, and a special program has been ar-ranged for them.

This afternoon a tea is to be given and tomorrow there is a very interesting, and I am sure, enjoyable event prepared. At the Onyx room in the Brown Palace hotel, Mr. Carl Melzer will give an illustrated lecture on the backbone of America. He has climbed all of the high peaks in these mountain states and taken pictures, and those will be shown.

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Then, on a musical program Mr. Horace Jones of Boulder and Mark Wessel will entertain you.

Following that, the women are invited to join the delegates in the tour of the Reclamation Bureau offices.

I am announcing this so that those of you who brought your wives may pass the word along.

There is another matter. The resolutions committee, legislative committee, and others may desire to have stenographic service. We have set up a room, room 134, where you will find stenographers who will be able to make out reports of state caucuses or of any committee or to take care of any of your desires along the line of stenography. So I hope that you will avail yourselves of that room and office. You can gain entry to it off of the lobby leading to this room. (Applause).

po HT OF STATE CA(I4ES

0. S. Warden: We are about twenty-five minutes behind our schedule and we will try and catch up. The secretary has intro-duced something in the way of an innovation on this program. We want to see the director or some representative of each state. We will have reports now from the caucuses that were held this morning.

Each state holds a caucus to discuss matters in connection with that state and to elect a director for the ensuing year, and a member of the resolutions committee, and a member of the legis-lative committee. The secretary will call the roll of the states.

The one reporting will please come forward to the microphone so it will all be clear—and leave the record card with the secretary.

Mr. Secretary, will you call the roll?

Mr. Hagie : Mr. President, and friends: This is a little innova-tion, but if the chairman or the secretary of each of the caucuses are ready, we will take the states alphabetically, and invite you to come up and tell us who you have chosen for director and who you have chosen for your representative on the resolutions com-mittee and who you have chosen to serve you during the year as a member of the legislative committee, leave the card that you have filled out with that material on it with me and then take a few minutes if you like to high-light some of the things that took

place at your conference this morning.

The first is Arizona. Who is representing Arizona? The line forms on the left, gentlemen.

Mr. Hugo Farmer of Yuma, Arizona.

Hugo B. Farmer: Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen of this very distinguished convention: I would like to report to you that our Arizona delegation this year is much larger than we have ever had before. We will have about seventeen delegates. These

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delegates have requested me, in making my report, to congratulate the good people of the city of Denver, those who are responsible and who have done the work of preparation for this convention, and upon the way they have done it.

I have had the pleasure and honor of serving the National Reclamation Association as the Arizona director for the past four years. I have enjoyed immensely serving with our distinguished president, Honorable 0. S. Warden. He has rendered outstanding service for the cause of national reclamation.

He has never charged our association with any expense which he has incurred in making numerous trips to Washington in his work, and he is entitled to the congratulation and appreciation of every member of the National Reclamation Association and of the western states.

I also want to congratulate the association upon the man they have selected as the secretary-manager of this association. It has been my pleasure to be in Washington several times during the past few years and see the way he has done his work, the association is to be congratulated upon the selection of such a man for the job. I would like to say that the Arizona caucus expressed their unanimous approval of the work that this convention and the Na-tional Reclamation Association has done for Arizona as well as the other western states.

In closing, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is not unfair for me to say that Arizona delegates requested me to express to you a sincere hope that you might honor them with your presence dur-ing the year 1940.

The report is as follows: State of Arizona, representative on the board of directors for the ensuing year, Hugo B. Farmer, Yuma, Arizona; representative on the legislative committee for the en-suing year, Jesse C. Wanslee, address, State Capitol, Phoenix, Arizona; representative on the resolutions committee for the en-suing year, William J. Burns, 32 West South Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona.

Mr. Hagie : Some of your remarks I think were out of order. The photographer tells me that he has placed his camera right up here (indicating), and if you would all turn your faces that way just for an instant, he would like to get a picture, so put on your

best smile.

(At this point a picture was taken, after which the hearing proceeded as follows) :

Mr. Hagie : According to the list before me, next alphabetically is California. I think I have heard of that state somewhere, some-time. Who represents California?

Here we are, Mr. Kaupke.

Charles L. Kaupke : Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen: As secretary of the California delegation, I am pleased to report

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that we unanimously re-elected our director, J. R. Fauver, of Exeter, California. If you desire a speech from the California delegation, he has promised to make it. As our representative for the ensuing year on the legislative committee we chose Roland Curran, 611 Forum Building, Sacramento, California.

On the resolutions committee we selected H. L. Haehl, con-sulting engineer, San Francisco, California.

The California caucus this morning, with forty delegates present, had all of its decisions unanimous.

I thank you. (Applause).

Mr. Hagie : Our host state, Colorado, comes next on the list. Who is going to report?

George Corlett.

I know this is going to be a good report, George.

George M. Corlett: As secretary of the Colorado caucus I beg leave to report that we selected Honorable Clifford H. Stone of Denver, Colorado, as our member on the board of directors, Honor-able A. Watson McHendrie of Pueblo, Colorado, as a member of the legislative committee, and your humble servant, George M. Corlett, as a member of the resolutions committee.

The secretary suggested that the member mention the high-lights of the caucus. I want to say that at our Colorado caucus this morning, although we are intensely interested in reclamation, the high-light of the caucus was that we are proud and appreciate very much the convocation of this illustrious assembly here in Colorado, and we appointed each member of the Colorado delega-tion as a special committee upon whom you can call at any time for any service that you want to contribute to your pleasure while

you are here. (Applause).

Mr. Hagie : I am sure that we already have become cognizant of the fact that this Colorado committee has done a fine job in arranging this convention, and I know as the days move forward and we move ahead in this convention, we will be more appreciative of the fine things that Governor Carr's committee has done in preparing for us.

George Corlett didn't tell us how many Colorado men were in the caucus. They caucused in this room, and I assume they had no difficulty in getting in. George didn't tell us how many Colorado people were here, but we will get that out of him later, I think. The next on the list is Idaho. Who is representing Idaho? Bill Welsh, come up, Bill.

Bill Welsh from Idaho. Tell us about it, Bill.

W. E. Welsh: Members of the National Reclamation Associa-tion: Idaho has claimed for a good many years—I believe perhaps since the organization of the association—of having more delegates in attendance than any other state except possibly the home state in which the convention was being held.

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This morning the Idaho delegates caucused with sixty-one delegates in attendance. (Applause). And I believe you asked for the high-lights of the caucus this morning.

I don't know as there was any one thing that was the high-light over and above any other particular thing unless it was the consideration of the unified state-wide Idaho reclamation pro-gram which has been formulated through the initiative of the directors and the membership of the Idaho State Reclamation as-sociation and with the cooperation of a state-wide committee of twenty-six appointed by the governor of that state.

Idaho is united and enthusiastic behind its state-wide reclama-tion program.

Now, as to the nominations which we have to offer to you, we are again pleased to announce that for the representative on the board of directors we have again selected the man who has served since the organization of this association, Mr. N. V. Sharp of Filer, Idaho.

For a representative on the legislative committee we have selected Mr. J. M. _{Lampert who is now chairman of the legislative} committee of the national association.

For representative of the resolutions committee we have select-ed Mr. E. H. Neal of Aberdeen, Idaho. (Applause).

Mr. Hagie : We started with seventeen from Arizona, California had forty, and Idaho sixty-one. We now come to the president's own state of Montana.

Who is going to report for Montana ? Ralph Bricker of Great Falls.

Mr. Bricker: Mr. President, and members of the conven-tion: The Montana group met with twenty-eight present this morn-ing and elected as representative on the board of directors Mr. 0. S. Warden, on the legislative committee, Mr. G. R. Walsh of Hamilton, Montana, on the resolutions committee, Mr. H. R. Lenz, of Great Falls, Montana; and without thinking it necessary to explain why the group will support the conclusions of the majority of this convention, I thank you. (Applause).

Mr. Hagie : It is a very fine report, Ralph. I think the applause that your report received was very indicative of the feeling of this group.

The next state is Nebraska. Who is going to report from Nebraska?

A. N. Mathers : Mr. Pres. ident, secretary, and gentlemen: We had hoped coming to Denver that we could interest a number of Nebraska men to come to this convention. I have been boasting about that to President Warden and Secretary Hagie for several days and we did have forty-one, which is forty more than we had