Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-03
A RICH LAYOUT. ,
Splendid Program for the National
Irrigation Congress at AL
buquerque.

The official program of the fourth ma
tional irrigation congress, which will be
held at Albuquerque during September,
has Just been issued. On Thursday last
Col Frost, who is the chairman of the
territorial committee of the congress,
met Mr.. W. +. Smythe, editor of the Irrl-
cation Age, of Chicago, chairman of the
national committee of the congress, at
Denver. After a consultation the pro-
gram, given later on, was adopted. 1t
was also found on comparing notes, that
the attendance of actual delegates will be
greater at the coming congress than it
has been at the three previous congresses
and that the northwest, Idaho, Montana,
tine two Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada,
California and Texas will be we'll rep
resented. The number of delegates may
.each 200. large attendance of others
interested in irrigation matters in the
seventeen etates and territories known
as the arid west will also be had on ac-
count of the low rates that the several
railroad companies will make to Albu-
querque during the congress. 1t is ex-
pected that several thousand farmers,
lrrigationists, land seekers and capitalists
will be present.
The several committees charged with
the work of the congress are energetically
pushing the duties assigned them and
everything indicates that the gathering
will be q great success and will prove of
vast benefit to every section of New Mex
leo. The official program is as follows:
Monday First Day, $3.50 a. m.-The congress
called to order by Vim. g. Smythe chairman
national committee.
Addresses of welcome by Governor w. T.
Thornton and others.
Address by chairman OF national commit
tee; rev ew of the years progress of irriga-
tion during year 1S9l-1SJ5.
Temporary organization: appointment of
committees on credentials. order OF business
and permanent organization Address by
Judge j. s. Emery, of Kansas national l.,
turer.
Afternoon Section.-Reports of commit
on credentials; order of business: permanent
ident: appointment committee on resou-
tions; presentation of reports of state com
III issions.
Evening Session.--Address by Hon. Clark
E. Carr. ex-minister to Depmark and ex Gov.
Lionel T.. Sheldon, of Los Angeles.
Second Day, 9:3) a. m.-Topics for discus
sion colonization of arid lands. Opening re-
marks by John E. Frost, land commissioner
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe road; discus
sion.
Afternoon Sessisn.-Topics for discussion:
water supplies for the semi -arid region: re-
seryoirs etc. Opening address remarks by
f. II. Moses. of Kansas, president of the In
ter.State Irrigation association. Debate to
be led by delegates gie from Kansas, Nebraska
mission system. Opening address by Fred l..
AIles of Los Angeles who will describe the
methods of California fruit exchanges; dis
Evening Session.-Irrigation IN Missouri.
Thomas Knight. Irrigation in New. Mexico
and Colorado. by. ex-Goyernor l.. Bradford
cussion led by Lutte Wilcox, editor "Field
Third Day, Morning DISQUALIFICATION, a
continental issue, by Col. r. }; Hinton;, eli
Glassford, U. S. A. Discussion on the scien-
tific aspects ofirrigation; ganging of Il ow in
streams; evaporation forestry: reservoirs:
be wfs ar o o f
GERS and engineers, officials .of the weather
service and geological and irrigation sur
veyss.
the desert land law; the land system and
land law of the United States; pasturage
lands Discussion of inter- state and interna-
tional streams. Irrigation in Mexico and
Canada by delegates from those countries.
Address on the legal aspects OF irrigation by
Judge b. 7. Kinney of Utah. Election of ma
tional committee and choice of next conven-
tion city.
Fourth Day, Morning Session.--Reports of
committee on resolutions; investigation and
explanations of ofproposed excursions through
New Mexico and Arizona; inspection of ex
hibits from New Mexico and Arizona; closing
exercises
The excursions will follow Immediately
after the adjournment of the congress as fol-
lows: First EXcursion.-From Albuquerque
to Santa Fe. thence returning, going down
the valley of the Rio Grande by daylight to
Ell Paso stopping at Socorro and Las Cru
ces, at night from El Paso to Pccos City,
Texas then up the valley of the Rio Pccos to
Roswell by daylight via the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Texas Pacific and Pccos Valley
railways. Second Excursion.-From Albn-
querque west over the Atlantic 4 Pacific
railway via Prescott to Phoenix and the
Salt River ya1Iey. and return.