The herald., 1893-10-12


upon which legislation for the benefit of
those concerned can be reliably founded.
Colonel Irish concluded amid great ap-
plsuse and recess was taken until
l 80 p. m.
The Afternoon Session.
When the afternoon session was called
to order at 80 o'clock, the Hon. J. R..
Mcdonald, In the absence of the per-
manent chairman, was called upon to
preside.
A dispatch was received from the Colo
RADIO delegation intimating that they
would arrive on the 6 p. m. train.
MORE RESOLUTIONS.
sented and referred to the committee:
The memorial OF R. G. Powers of Ari-
zona sets forth:
Whereas. Over all the region lying
west OF the Tooth meridian OF longitude,
comprising more than one-half of the
territory Of the United States, agricul-
ture is rendered preearious and impossi-
BILE on account of insufficient rainfall in
the valleys; and
Whereas. A systematic plan of sup
plying artificial moisture with certainty
and economy can best be secured
through national aid and supervision,
therefore,
Resolved, That it is thesdusy of the
national government to foster irrigation
by providing skillful hydraulic engineers
to assist in locating, planning and con-
structiDg canals, reservoirs and other
irrigation works, and to extend such
other aid as may be found necessary to
place irrigation enterprises upon a sys-
tematic, safe and enduring basis; and,
Whereas, The greater portion of what
now remains of the public domain lie,
and must continue to be, practically
worthless, until reclaimed from it's arid
condition; and,
Whereas, By irrigation, it can not
only be made habitable, but among the
most valuable portions OF the agricul-
tural resources OF the nation. There
fore,
Resolved. That wise statesmanship
demands that the construction OF canals
and reservoirs, and other irrigation
work, should be directly promoted by
appropriations from the national treas
ury in order thatt public domain, the
property of all the people, may be made
available for settlement.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
congress that the government of the
United States make the necessary de-
velopments to unite the water and land
in the arid regions.
First-By making the necessary sur
veye to formulate uniform system to
use economically all the water available.
Second-To build all the necessary
reservoirs and canals to convey the
water to the land and to add the cost of
such developments to the price of the
land, said land to be sold to actual
settlers only in lots of 40 acres each.
Judge Anderson OF California present
ed the following resolution:
Whereas. The peoples of the territories
OF New Mexico, Utah, and Oklahoma
are all vitally interested in the question
of the reclamation of the arid lands be-
longing to the United Statee and
Whereas, That question must soon
be discussed and acted on in the con-
gress of the United States and
Whereas, 1t 10 but fair that peoples
having such vital interest in said
questions should participate in said dis
cussion and acted thereon and
Whereas, 1t is for the benefit of all of
US interested in said questions that we
should have the advice and active par
ticipation of the representatives of said
peoples upon the floor of congress;
Therefore resolved, That in aid OF the
great cause that we have assembled
here to advocate and advance, we
earnestly urge that said territories be
admitted into the union as states at the
very earliest moment practicable.
By Kellogg of California: THAT it is
the sense of this congress that the gov
ernment of the United States make the
necessary developments to unite the
water and land in the arid regions"
HORTICULTURAL IRRIGATION"
DR.. Joseph Jarvis of Riverside read
the following able paper on irrigation
and its relation to horticulture. He
said.
Mr.. President, Members OF the International
Irrigation Congress.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: California
is today recognized as the garden OF the
world, and Southern California is that
portion of the garden devoted most ex-
clusively to fruits, producing as it does
nearly all known varieties OF the tenn
perate and semi-tropic zones.
Iue apple IL nero pfOuuCSu IN pert6c-
tion, and beside it we find that the or
ange and the lemon mature in way
that is unsurpassed by the fruits OF any
other country in the world, while the
Muscat grape produces raisin that is
not outranked by the raiein of any other
climate.
Originally California was a grazing
state, where long-wooled sheep and
long-horned cattle roamed over the
plains in company with bronco horses,
unmolested by the trains OF commerce
and unobserved by modern civilization.
In natural state California was a
desert country. except that along some
OF the streams there was strip of
moist land that could be depended upon
with more or less regularity every year
for limited amount of feed, and in
some localities there we're limited areas
of moiet and cieneoa landa which wore
considered as oases, when food and
water failed in the country at large.
In wet seasons the plains were COW
cred with aifillarilla and other native