The herald., 1893-06-01
THAT IRRIGATION CONGRESS,
A Preparatory Meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce.
An Assembly Which Should Be Given
Thorough Entertainment.
President GcrmaIn Makes Lucid State
ment OF the Case-A Number OF
Representative Citizens Put
on Committees.

A special meeting of members of tht
chamber Of commerce and others inter
ested in the subject of irrigation tool
place yesterday afternoon at the rooms
of the chamber to take action in the
matter of preparing for the Irrigation
congress, which is to meet in this city
on the 10th of next October for one
week. President Freeman occupied the
chair. @. d. Willard acted as secretary.
Mr.. freeman stated that the meeting
had been called by the board of direct
ors of the chamber. "There exists
said he, IAN organization known as the
National Irrigation association, which
has an executive committee containing
one person in each state that practices
irrigation. At the annual meeting of
this executive committee last January,
there was considerable discussion as to
the site where the next congress should
be held, and Los Angeles was finally
decided upon for the reason that it is
located in the midst of q section which
shows in the highest degree the results
| OF irrigation. The chamber of com
merce took upon itself to promise that
il the convention were held in this CITY
the members would be suitably re-
ceived; that is to say, hall would be
provided for their meeting, the journal
Of their proceedings would be printed,
and their members would be cordially
received. The chamber also promised
that If the convention were held here
efforts would be made to advertise it
thoroughly throughout the nation, go
that it's attendance would be az large as
possible. The basis of representation
of delegates at this convention will be
settled by the executive committee.
What remains for US to do ia to raise
the necessary funds for advertising the
convention and then proceed to thor
oughly advertise the same by articles in
newspapers throughout the western
country and by sending out many
Thousand circulars to all those who are
likely to be interested in the under
taking.
While the chamber of commerce Of
this city will assiet the proposed con-
gress in offering the free use of it's
offices and in some measure the services
OF its employees, there will be expenses
which this organization cannot meet ont
of its regular funds, and the work, to be
thoroughly done, must be paid for by
funds raised by subscription.
One of the principal committees,
therefore, to be appointed is a commit
tee on finances, which shall take charge
of the raising of this fund and its su bse-
quent disbursement. Another COM
mittee to be appointed is committee
on publication. There should also be
har of L.-k
these need not be appointed until the
time draws near for the meeting OF the
congrens. There should also be q conn
mittee on general arrangements, to at
tend 10 the details of the work. In
making this congress known to the
world there is no time to be lost, and
the committees which are appointed
should, therefore, meet promptly and
proceed Immediately to the work.
Mr.. German said there WAS no ques-
ton about the advantage that would ac-
crue to this country if the convention
were made success, and it could be
made success only by the unanimous
decision on the part of the members of
the chamber and the citizens to take
hold of the affair. He then offered the
following resolutions, which were carried
unanimously:
Resolved, That a finance committee.
to consist of 10 members, be appointed
by the chair, of whom President Free
man shall be one. It shall be the duty
of this committee to raise as soon as
possible the sum OF $4,000 for the pre-
liminarv expenses of advertising the
proposed congress throughout the ma
ton. This committee shall have power
to appoint subcommittee of its own
members to take charge of the fund thus
raised, authorize expenditures and audit
accounts.
Resolved, That this meeting call upon
the railroads OF Southern California and
the hotels of this city to start the fund
with liberal subscriptions, to be followed
by subscriptions from capitalists and
land owners of all Southern California
and the business men OF Los Angeles.
The following were appointed as such
committee: d. Freeman, Z. o. Slim
son, E. w. Jones, H. T. Hazard, E. +. G.
Klokke, A. @. Bilicke, Eugene Germain,
II. W. Hellman, V. Ponet, F. A. Pattee.
It was moved and carried that COM
mittee on publication be appointed by
the chair, and the following were So
lected as such committee Fred L.
Allies, Harry Brook, A. Phillips, A. P.
mdRiuulr, 0oOtBo nlCcS Os a. CtepQ6nH,
I. H. La Veen.
Mr.. J. A. Pirtle moved that a COM
mittee be appointed on arrangements.
The motion was carried and the follow
ing we're appointed as such committee. !.
W. O. Patterson, ]. A. Pirtle, J. d.
Hooker, George H. Bixby, w. HI. Work
man, f. @. Story and @. d. Willard.
1t was moved and carried that Joint
meeting of all the committees be called
for next Friday afternoon at 80 O'Clock.
Gov. J. ]. Gosper called attention to
the fact that every effort should be made
to have the Associated Press kept thor
oughly informed of the plans Of the con-
vention, and that the newspapers of
Southern California should be urged to
assist in giving the widest publicity
possible to the affair. This matter was
referred to the committee on publica-
tion. After some further discussion as
to the best means of interesting the pub
lie in the matter of the proposed con-
gress, the meeting adjourned.