The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-12
STATEHOOD Is
ASKED FOR Utah.
The Irrigation Congress Recog-
nizes Out Right to It.
THE POWER. OF WATER.
THE POWER OF WATER.
How Deserts Have Bloomed Like
Oriental Gardens.
Requests to Be Made to Congress Which,
if Granted Mean Vast Wealth
Added to the Great
West.

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 1.-THE Irri-
cation congress reassembled this
morning. An interesting debate oc-
Cured over the granting of proxiea
and propositions to grant them were
carried by 80 majority A large num-
Der of resolutions was then presented
and referred.
Arizona asked that Congress be me-
moriahzed by the Irrigation congress
to admit the territory as a state.
Another resolution was offered that
where the states or territories did not
have an irrigation department bureau,
steps be taken at once to have the
legislatures establish such.
Another resolution sets forth that
settlers on the senli-arid lands of tho
government should have government
aid in retaining the water supplies
and some part of the money received
by the government for land should &c
in establishing water basins and other
water supplies.
T. H Newell, of the interior depart
ment, read a paper on the government
Investigations.
Colonel John P. Irish read a paper
on the need of unity Of action and the
compilation and publication of irriga-
ton matters.
Colonel Irish represented the irriga-
ton division of the department of ag-
riculture.
Among the resolutions introduced
was one urging the admission as
states of the territories of Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah and Oklahoma at
the earliest moment practicable.
Congress was asked to aid the cause
Of irrigation, first, by making the ne
cessary surveys to formulate a uniform
system to use economically all the wa
ter available; second, to build all the
necessary reservoirs and canals to
convey the water to the lands and to
add the cost of such developments to
the price of the land, said lands to be
sold to actual settlers only, in lots of
forty acres each.
Hon. John w. Gregory, of Kansas,
read a paper on the significance of
irrigation as regards the great plains
region of the United States. He con-
tended that with irrigation these semi
arid lands would blossom like an ori-
entail garden and the heat and storms
of the dry months be robbed of their
terrors for the farmer.
DIR. Joseph Jarvis of Riverside, read
a paper on irrigation in Southern Cal
fornia and the results attained. The
whole irrigation problem rests on the
education of the east to its Importance
was necessary.
Spires, of Los Angeles, presented a
resolution asking an advancement on
the United States Supreme Court cal
endar for immediate hearing of the case
of Trege plaintiff in error, VS.. Modesto
Irrigation district, as an early decision
by the Supreme Court will, if in favor
of the district, settle forever the legal
ity of the right of the irrigation law,
as well as the absolute security of in
vestment to capitalists. Spires stated
there were fifteen million dollars
worth of irrigation bonds issued, whose
sale depends on the decision of the SUI
preme Court.
IAN invitation for an excursion was
accepted and the convention adjourned
until tomorrow