The Lamar register., 1894-09-08


ization reported the following list of
officers of the congress:
Elwood Mead. Wyoming. president
John e. Foster. Kansas. trst vice
president.
tary
A. NJ. West. California. first assist
ant secretary.
II. V. Hinckley, Kansas, second as
sitant secretary.
Vice Presidents Arizona. \. ].
Chandler; California. c. NJ. Heintz;
Colorado. II. l. Maxwell; Idaho. i. T.,
ostrander: Montana, w. II Graves;
Nebraska. F. ]. Foss: Nevada. Il. ].
Hinton; New Mexico. NJ. p. Pels; North
Dakota. Alfred Dickey; oklahoma. J,
V. Admire; Oregon, F. II. Brigham;
Texas, c. C. Pieree; Utah. l. w. Shurt-
lift; wyoming. c. c wobol: Illinois,
Loren Stevens; Missouri, Thomas
Knight: Wisconsin. J. $. Goddine;
Canada. William Pearce: Republic OF
Mexico. ]. Parmon Ybarolla. Washing
ton. DIR. y. 6. Blaylock.
The report was adopted unanimous
ly. Edward Mead. the president. Is
the state engineer OF Wyoming and
one OF the ablest students OF irrigation
in the West
Mr. Mead was escorted TO the plat
form amid applause He accepted the
honor in few words He did not
touch upon irrieating problems. eS.
cept briefly. He pointed out that the
presence of delegates from Canada and
Mexico presaged the consideration OF
widely differing methods OF irrigation.
He said there was much TO be learned
from these foreign delegates, for he
knew that they advanced far In certain
directions and had worked out some
theories OF irrigation with which Amer
leans were not exactly familiar. He
emphasized the importance OF irriga-
ton and the figure the big systems of
bitches are going to cut In the building
of Western empire. He was ap-
plauded vigorously
Lutte Wilcox. chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions. reported the pro-
cramme in general way for the en-
tire meeting of the congress
II was announced that the excursion
TO Greeley would take plaec to-day. II
viii be via the Union Pacific 10 Gree
Icy and via the Gulf to Fort Collins
and return through Boulder. Dinner
viii be- taken nj Fort Collins and an
hour and half viii be spent at Gree
ley reviewing the potato fields. The
towns visited will welcome and enter
tain the visitors.
President Mead called the congrcss
to order at = o'clock and resigned the
chair for the evening TO John Fro>t OF
Kansas The reports OF the irrigation
commissions appointed for the purpose
OF investigating irrisatins systems and
presenting the views of the various
states and territories on the cession OF
arid lands. etc. We're called for.
The report OF the Arizona commits
sion was read first. IL was an elab-
orate argument for the cessiou OF the
arid lands. II was signed by C. J.
Wander Weicher. member of the execu-
tive committee for Arizona
A paper by l.. NJ. Holt of California
was next read by the secretary He
wrote first OF the irrigation district
law of California. which he said had
in 1t many merits. despite its defects.
He said men who had not fine business
ability had undertaken TO engineer the
irrigation improvements and the result
was many failures 1t showed one
thing-the necessity of state supervis-
ion. He regretted that the constitu-
tionality of the district irrigation law
had for SO long IA time been before the
United States supreme court without
being determined upon II kept capi-
tai out of the districts and retarded the
success OF the district system He
thought the thing needed to make the
district system all IL should be was a
state board TO oversee all improve
ments and TO guard against the issue
OF bonds which cannot be sold or il
sold cannot be realized upon. He sug-
gested the issue OF state bonds to al
low the state to buy the district bonds