The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1893-10-07
Proclamation by the Gov
eFmOT.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. ]

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.
WHEREAS. There will be convened at
Los Angeles, California, on the 10th day
of October, 1893, and remain in session for
five days, an International Irrigation Con
gress, at which leading irrigationists of
the United States, Europe. Asia and Aus
tralia will be present, and at which a
number of important questions relating to
irrigation law, irrigation securities, irriga-
ton methods, etc., will be discussed and
determined.
The Importance of this congress has re-
ceived recognition from the national gov
crnment in a circular letter issued by the
Hon. Walter @. Gresham, secretary OF
state. dated July 9TH. 1898, inviting the
attendance of representatives from all for
eign governments interested in the subject
of irrigation, The department of the in
terror will be represented by an officer
specially detailed to impart to the con-
gress such information as may be IN the
ossession of tn c overnment, obtained by
surveys which have been carried on tor
several years by the United States geolog-
ical survey under and by direction of the
government.
As delegates will be present from all the
states and territories where irrigation is
carried on, and from foreign countries.
where this mode of agriculture has been
experimental with for years, the discus
sions will prove of the highest practical
value to every citizen interested in the de-
velopment of Arizona
There is no question which presents itself
to the western half of the United States,
especially to our own section, which is OF
greater importance and fraught with more
raomentous results than the solution OF the
arid land problem. 1t means the reelama-
ton of many million acres of land, the en-
ployment of thousands of people, and the
providing of myriads of families with farms
and homes, resulting in the production OF
untold wealth.
Our people can point with pride to the
wonderful results which have been achieved
by irrigation within our own borders, in
the reclamation of over half a million
acres of land and the contemplated recla-
nation of million more in the immediate
future. This is enough to inspire enthusl'
astio hope in the possibilities of Arizona's
/ I 1-nl
and should serve to excite the deepest in
| terest of our citizens in this congress.
The congress will no doubt discuss and
by resolution adopt and recommend to the
congress of the United States policy by
which these lands may be most easily re-
claimed. Such a policy, if simple, practi
cal. and involving little or no cost to the
federal government, will in all probability
be crystalIzed into a national law, and 1t
NAV be that the states and territories COM
prised in the arid section will be give1 the
reclamation of these lands.
Now, therefore, 1, L. G. Hughes, gov
ernor of the Territory of Arizona, dc
hereby request and urge the people Oh the
territory to interest themselves in the COM
ing congress. both by the discussion of the
subject and recommending to the proper
officials the selection and appointment OF
delegates specially qualified to present the
views of our people on the irrigation inter
ests of Arizona, and by their practical ex'
perience to assist in bringing the delibera'
lions to a successful conclusion.
In witness whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and caused
the great seal of the Territory
to be affixed at Phoenix, this
SEAL the eleventh day CT September
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and
ninetythEee.
l.. G. HUGHES,
Attest: Governor.
c. NJ. BRUCE, Secretary of the Territory