ct created an engineering bureaucracy. Initially called the Reclamation Service, it later acquired the name, Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau's projects were financed by a Reclamation fund. Theoretically, this fund was to be filled by proceeds from the sale of federal land in the western states. In addition, future payments to the fund would be made through the sale of water to farmers. Section 9 of the Act implied that the money gained from land sales in any particular state should be spent in that state. This clause ultimately provided a rationale for director, Frederick Newel's, unbridled ambition. By 1924, 27 projects had either already been completed, or were under construction (114).
Unfortunately though, the Bureau also seemed to have an attitude problem. Its engineers saw themselves as a "godlike class performing hydrologic miracles for grateful simpletons who were content to sit in the desert and raise fruit (114)." Their morals and behaviors eventually led to some painful and expensive embarrassments. For example, western soils turned o
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