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1 Extension of Time of Payment for Settlers on Government Reclamation Projects 1924

handle is hein.beal/mile0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 68TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES J REPORT 1st Sesson I No. 942 EXTENSION OF TIME OF PAYMENT FQR. SETTLERS ON GOVERNMENT RECLAMATION PROJECTS JUNE 3, 1924.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House oi th of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. SMITH, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, sub- mitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 9611] The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9611) to provide safeguards for future Federal rrigation development and the equitable adjustment of existing accounts on Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes, have given the proposed legislation most careful consideration, and recommend the passage of the bill without amendment. This legislation is based upon the report of a committee of special advisers on reclamation, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, which report was transmitted to Congress by the President on April 21, 1924, and is contained in Senate Document No. 92, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session. The necessity and urgency of the pending legislation are fully set forth in the report of the commission, copy of which, with the Presi- dent's message of transmittal, is appended to this report. The Reclamation Service was authorized under the act of June 7, 1902, which provided for the creation of a special fund from the receipts of sales and leases on the public domain to be expended on the reclamation of arid lands in the public-land States. This was a new departure of governmental activity, which has resulted in the reclamation of more than 2,000,000 acres of desert. land, upon which homes for nearly 40,000 families have been made, and in the creation of national wealth to the extent of $600,000,000, four times the amount expended. As a business, economic, and social proposition reclamation has been a great success, but on account of mistakes in the policy and the plans, largely because of the fact that this is an untried field, many settlers on the projects in some of the 14 States have been unable to meet their payments on the construction and on operation and maintenance charges. The principal cause for this unfortunate situation is the adverse conditions confronting all farmers on account of the low price of their product and the high price of everything they buy. The farmers on irrigation projects must bear annually the burden of pay- ments on construction charges and the expense of operation and

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