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President Roosevelt will take up the matter but doubts the precedent of a “Government ditch” providing 100 acres worth of water for one person can be violated.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-27
President Roosevelt congratulates the Irrigation Congress of North Dakota and holds it in high esteem.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-04
With the passage of the national irrigation law, President Roosevelt advocates careful study and cautious advancement for the “development of our arid lands and their settlement.” Irrigation development must also be accompanied by a forest reserve policy for one cannot succeed without the other.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-15
President Roosevelt congratulates the Irrigation Congress on their accomplishments in the last year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-13
President Roosevelt’s goal with the irrigation policy is to benefit the “small home-maker.” He understands the nature of gossip on the frontier but will not ignore any accusations of fraud. Roosevelt requests that Ray Stannard Baker meet with Gifford Pinchot and then himself to review the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-04
President Roosevelt would like to spread out the irrigation work among the states and not simply focus on a few of the larger enterprises.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-02
Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, is glad that Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the zoologist Edmund Heller should go accompany Paul James Rainey on a trip to South Abyssinia. Senator Thomas Henry Carter, chairman of the Senate Irrigation Committee, is writing a report of the committee’s investigation into reclamation projects in the west, which Walcott believes discredits work done during Roosevelt’s administration. If this is the case, Walcott is sure that the minority report by Senator Francis G. Newlands will dispute it.
Correspondence regarding the formation of the Yuma County Water Users’ Association and their desire for the construction of irrigation works on the lower Colorado River. Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock responds with the requested information on the cost and character of potential irrigation works.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-03
President Roosevelt congratulates the Irrigation Congress of North Dakota. He is pleased that his administration is connected with the irrigation movement in the West.
1901-1909
Benjamin Ide Wheeler congratulates President Roosevelt for making the country better through his letter on lynching, the Syracuse speech, and the Miller case decision. Wheeler reviews events in San Francisco politics and is pleased with the California plans related to the National Irrigation Law.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-10