St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-31
Gathered in One Room at the
Hotel Ryan Last
Evening.
Prominent Members Of the
Senate Special Committee
On Investigation.
The Sage Of Nininger and the
Poet Of the Sierras Join
Them.
The Work of the Committee
and How 1t Is Proposed
to Proceed.

Senator W. M. Stewart. Of Nevada,
chairman of the United States senate
committee on irrigation, arrived in the
city yesterday morning and took up
quarters at the Ryan hotel, where MI.
Davis, secretary of the committee, and
Col. Richard J. Hinton, committee en-
gineer, had ensconsed themselves since
Saturday. Senator Reagan, of Texas,
will probably arrive this morning. To
gether, the gentlemen will map out and
prepare their plans for future move
ment through the great belt regions of
the Northern and Western states. On
Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock SEES
sion will be held at the chambers of
Senator Stewart, at which there
will be an attendance of a
committee from the Farmers
alliance of South Dakota, headed by
Hon. A. W. Burt as chairman, L. f. b.
Coffin, of Huron, S. D., and other dis
tinguished Dakotians. The two sena-
tors. Secretary Davis, Col; Hinton and
the committee clerk, will leave st. Paul
at ITO Thursday evening over the
orthwestern road for Sioux Falls, S..
D., where a session will be held at
Which the delegates of the constitu-
tional convention will present such
testimoney and discuss such matters as
will to their section be pertinent and
helpful to the work of the committee.
On Saturday morning the party con-
tinueS its junket to Huron. The order
of former sessions will be exercised, and
the interested ones, city and county
officials, and the prominent factors Of
the district will be heard and. advised
OH the .-.....
QUESTION OF LAND IRRIGATION
and its economical projection in that
particular locality. The artesian we'll
basin will be discussed at Huron Satur-
day afternoon, and careful notes and
observations taken. Saturday evening
a public meeting will be held, at which
Senators Reagan and Stewart will de-
liver addresses. The topic of further
sessions will be the facts, evidence and
observations of the various arid tracts
traversed by the committee and those
lands lying beyond the region where
the railroad penetrates. Delegates
from such districts will meet the COM
mittee at the councils held in the cities
following: On Sunday jamestown will
be visited, where the regular Northern
Pacific train will carry the party to
Glendive. Arriving at Helena on
Friday evening, the 9th proX..
the journeying party will be
joined by Senator Plumb, of Kansas,
and Senator Jones, of Arkansas. Con-
tinuing sessions will be held at Miles
City. Billings, Bozeman, points in East
City. Idaho; Great Snake Valley basin
and Eagle Rock, in Idaho; Salt Lake
City in Utah, Elko, Humboldt, Carson
and Reno in Nevada. Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas will be
visited going. Returning, New Mexico
again, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming
will be traversed, sessions being held in
the principal cities along the route.
Stopping at Sacramento, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, San Diego, sessions will
be held, and the subject of the extern
Sive tour discussed and agitated with
all interested persons, until, when the
great trip is ended-siXty days or more
hence-cOmplete and comprehensive in
formation has been gathered about and
concerning the many millions of acres
of arid land which might, by proper
governmental improvement,
BE RECLAIMED To HARVESTING FIELDS
by scientific IrrigatiOnS as applied by
the recommendation the committee will
take to congress. Maj. Powell, of Wash
ington, director of the geological sur
vey, will probably join the party here
before it leaves on Thursday. Arrange
ments have been made with the railroad
company to carry the party through the
great valley of the Yellowstone by day,
instead of by night. as would be the
case on regular trains. An observa-
ton car will be at the com
pany's service, and from this that
great tract of arid acres will
be noted in all its details and topog-
raphy, and if any spot in this country is
worth redemption at the hand of sci
enee, Senator Stewart thinks the Vel
lowstone valley is the place. He says
that in his estimation it is one of the