Arizona silver belt., 1893-10-07
PROCLAMATION nv TIE GOVERNOR.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
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 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.
 WHEREAS, There will be convened at Les Angeles California, on the 10th day of October, 1898, and remain in session for five days, an International Irrigation Congress, at which leading irrigationists of the United States. Flu fopei Asia and Australia will be pres ent, and at which a number of import ant questions relating to irrigation law, irrigation securities, irrigation methods, etc, will be discussed and determined.
 i The importance of this Congress has received recognition from tbe national government in circular letter issued by the Hon. Walter Q. Gresham Sec retary of State, dated July 7th, 1893, inviting the attendance of representa- tives from all foreign governments in. terested in the subject of irrigation. The Department of the Interior will be repfesented by an officer specially de. tailed to impart to the Congress stich information as may be in the posses sion of the government, obtained by surveys which have been carried on for several yenrs by the United States geological survey under and by direc- ton of the government.
 As delegates will be present. from all the States and territories where irriga- tion is carried on, and from foreign countries, where this mode of agricul- | ture has been experimented with for years, the discussions will prove of the highest practical value to every citizen | interested in the development of Ari- soma.
 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 momentous results than the solution of the arid land problem, it means the reclamation of Tany million acres of land, the em- ployment or thousands of people, and the providing of myriads of families with farms and homes, resulting in the production of untold wealth.
 0sr people can point with pride to -he wonderful results which havcbeen achieved by irrigation within our own borders, in the reclamation of over half a million acres of land and the contemplated reclamation ofa million nore in the immediate future. This is 'noogh to inspire enthusiastic hope in he possibilities of Arizona's horticul. ural and agricultural resources, and hould serve to excite the deepest in- crest of our citizens in this Congress. The Congress will no doubt discuss nd 5y Resolution adopt and recon aend to the Congress of the United .talss a policy by which these lands nay be most easily reclaimed. Such q .olicy if simple, practical, and involv- ag ..ttle or no cost to the federal gov rRmenE will in all probability be rystalized into a national law, and tt nay be that the states and territories in the arid section win be iyen the reclamation of these lands. Now, Therefore, l, L. c. Hughes, .oyernor of the Territory of Arizona, Q hereby request and urge the people f the Territory to interest themselves the coming Congress, both by the iscussion of the subject and rocom- 'ending to the proper officials the sc- ! ction and appointment of delegates 'ecialiy qualified to present the views our people on the irrigation inter- l, It's of Arizona, and by their practical tperience to assist in bringing the de- 1eradons to a successful conclusion.
 In witness whereof, have here
 unto set my hand and caused ?
 the great seal of the Territory FAIL to be affixed at Phenix, this =
 the eleventh day of September,
 in the year of our. Lord one
 thousand eight hundred and
 ninety three.
 L. c, HUGHES, -test: Governor. c. NJ. BRUCE. Secretary of the Ter.