Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-09-20
PROCLAMATION ny rmE eovrENoR
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

TERRITORY OF ARIZONAA WHEREAS, There will be convened at Los Angeles, California. on the 10th day of October. 1898. and re ! main n session for five days. an Iu- ] ternatloaal Irrigation Congress. at which leading irrigationists of the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia will be present. and at ' which a number of important questions relating to irrigation law. irrigation securities, irrigation methods, etc, will be discussed and determined.
 The importance of this conurass has received recognition from the national government in circular letter issued by the Hon. Walter c. GreSham secretary of state. dated July, 1th, 1898, inviting the attou- dance CT representatives from all foreign governments interested n the subject of irrigation. The 5,- partment of the interior will be rep resented by an officer specially de- tailed to lmpart to the congc,,, such information as may be in pass- eSslon ot the government, obtained by surveys which have been carriul on Tor several years by the United States geological survey under and toy direction of the government.
 As delegates will be present from all the states and territories whore irrigation Is carried on, and from foreign countries, where this moic of agriculture has been cxperi mented with for yeas. the discus sion will prove of the highest practical value to every citizeu in- te. ested in the development ol Arizona.
 There is no question which pre- seutS itself to the western hall aF the United States, especially to our own section, which Is of greater il- ! portauce and fraught with more ! momentous results than the solution of the arid land problem. it mea ! the reclamation of many acres of 1 land, the employment of many thousands of people, and the pro 1 viding Of myriads of families with | farms and homes, resulting in the l production of untold wealth.
 Our people can point with pride 1 to the wonderful results which have l been achieved by irrigation within . our own borders, in the reclamation of over half million acres of land l and the contemplated reclamation of more in the immediate future. This Is enough to inspire enthusias- tic hope in the possibilities oI Arizona's horticultural and agricu.- tural resources, and should serve ta excite the deepest interest of our citizens in this congress.
 The congress will no doubt dis cusS and by resolutions adopt and recommend to the congress of th, ] United States a policy by which ! these lands may be most easily re- claimed. Such a policy if simplc. pratical aud involving little or u1 cost to the federal government, will in all probability be crystalizei into a national law, and 1t may be hat the states and territorles com prised in the ard section will be given the reclamation of these lands.
 Now, Therefore, TLC. Hughes. governor of the Territory of Ar- zona, do hereby request and urge ! he people of the territory to inter est themselves in the coming cou- -ress, both by the discussion of the subject and recommending to the proper officials the selection amt of delegates specially qualified to present the views of our people on the irrigation interests of Arizona, and by their practical eV- Derience to assist in bringing the deliberations to successful con 'lusiOn.
 In witness whereof, | have hereunto
 set my hand and caused the
 great seal of he territory to
 be affixed at Phoenix, this the sEAL) eleventh day of September, in
 the year of our Lord one thou
 sand eight hundred and nine
 ty-threo.
 L. C HUGHES, Governor. Attest:
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