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ReclamationtJContinued From Page Otie *■ - —— ------——— hbuilt by the reclamation bureau. ¥ Straus said. He commented that up- I ponents of the project were predict- a mg that it never would materialize, t Rep. Murdock (D-Ariz.). long- f time chairman of the nouse sub- c committee on irrigation and recla- • mat ion, told reporters that the states are cooperating with the federal government in attempting c to prevent land speculation on I reclamation projects }tProject Enlarges zMurdock is in line for the chair- I manship of the subcommittee's par- t ent, the public lands committee, because of the retirement from congress of the present chairman. Rep. t Peterson (D-Fla.. f“The 1,200,000 acres of land to be e irrigated in the Columbia Basin ■ i»•**project must be handled as a ’unt Murdock said.“From now on the project is go- i ing to be larger, and will involve 1 a large percentage of private own-; ership.“Human nature being what it is. j we must count on attempts at spe- j ( culation. The reclamation law, and j t its enforcement by the commission- j I er, is designed to make it as diffi- ? cult as possible to do wrong and I * , as easy as possible to do right. The, c 'state of Washington has passed companion legislation aimed to stop speculation.' ’1 Many land owners in the basin have held out against signing water-use contracts with the federal government, some because they object to disposing, at government-appraised prices, of lands in excess of the 160-acre f.irm limit.Murdock said the 160 acre limit was a “wise thing to put in the reclamation law and will be pretty hard to take out of the law.”He added that his subcommittee will propose that there be no fur-1 Ither extension—beyond tne one al-ireadj' granted—of the law enabling ’ (owners to receive project water under contract.I Straus made -hese further ob-i coT\ratinTilt;'
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Wed, Nov 15, 1950
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