The herald., 1893-09-22
IRRIGATION Coz GRESS.
INDICATIONS POINT TO ITS sue
CESS NEXT MONTH.
The Progress Thus Far-A Delegate t.
Be Sent to Kspsns--so,ne of those
Who wui Deliver Speeches.
Other Details.

Mr.. @. d. Willard, secretary OF the
chamber Of commerce, wrote to Mr.. w.
E. Smyth yesterday ia regard to the
coming irrigation congress which meets
in this city for one week, beginning o.
tober 10th.
The outlook is very encouraging for .
successful convention. The situation ia
briefly and clearly prenented in the com.
munication which outlines the work up
to date.
All the states in the irrigated territory
will send delegates, while a number in
the eact have written for informatioa,
Among the eastern states heard from are
Tennessee, North Carolina, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Louisiana.
The only foreign countries which have
officially given notice OF eending dele
gates are Mexico and Austro- Hungary.
the latter sending representative from
tho agricultural department. Russia
already has o representative here in the
person of NJ Constan,in Comodzinsky,
who, with q corps OF assistants, is in.
specting the irrigation systems. He
will attend the congress-. Canada will
also probably eend representatives.
Already q number of speakers have
been selected. a representative from
the interior department will speak upon
Irrigation Investigations of the Interior
Department.
Elwood Need OF Wyoming will talk
upon either the Interstate Division OF
Water or upon Land Systems for the
Arid Region.
Hon. O. O. Wright OF Modesto will
ko11 - r.
J.. w. Gregory of Garden City, Kan,
upon the Significance OF Irrigation with
respect TO the great plains region OF the
United Statea.
The Colonization of Irrigated Lands
will be treated by George II. Weeks Of
Bakersfield. while DR.. Joseph Jarvis of
Riverside is to speak of Irrigation "a
Applied to Horticulture.
j. X. Doolittle OF Phoenix, Ariz., has
selected Common Law of Water in Arid
America as his subject, and s. NJ. Wood
bridge will discuss Fertilization of Land
by Irrigation.
Pohn p. Irish, w. ii. Mills and other
prominent public men have stated they
will attend the congress, but have as
yet not selected the subjects upon which
they will speak. There are also other
writers and speakers who can be count
ed upon to speak. Senator White will
probably deliver the opening address il
the affairs OF the senate will go permit.
The congress will be held in the
Grand opera house.
1t is intended to print daily journal
OF the proceedings, and at the close of
the congress to issue q pamphlet con-
tanning all Of the various papers and
speeches in full.
Excursions about this section will
also be given on special rates Of III
fare for the round trip have been se-
| cured over all the railroads in Southern
California. This rate extending as far
east on the Southern California route AZ
the lines of the Atlantic and Pacific
road. 1t also extends over the Southern
Pacific and Central Pacific roads.
The Hollenbeck, Nadeau and St.
Elmo hotels have been selected as the
headquarters for the delegates.
Mr.. Willard also states that letter
was recently received from the secretary
I OF the Interstate Irrigation congress,
giving notice OF its meeting in 6alinA,
\ Kan, this month, to discuss the irriga-
! tion of land east Of the rockies.
Ithas been decided to send q represen-
| tative from this section to this congress,
and Capt. Thomas B. Merry, the we'll
known newspaper man, has been select
ed. He will address the meeting on
| irrigation on the Pacific coast, touching
briefly on Idaho and eastern Oregon.
There being in this portion Of the latter
state the three only counties in that
state that require irrigation. The irri-
CATION of Kern county, California, will
also be referred to.