Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-01
Official Call for the Fourth National
IRRIGATION Congress-.

| BY the authority of the national execu
tive commit tee, the Fourth National Irri-
CATION Congress is hereby called to meet
in the city of Albuquerque, N. NJ, for the
four days beginning September l6, 1895.
The present year is proving to be the
most remarkable in the history OF Ameri-
can irrigation. 1t has seen wonderful
awakening of popular interest in the
cause throughout the east, resulting in
the organization of most potential forces
for the purpose of cooperating with the
western people; the enactment of we'll
considered irrigation laws in eight states,
and the creation of administrative sys-
TENS in FIVE of them; the recognition OF
the pressing nature of the problem by
the Departments of interior and agricul-
ture, under whose direction national
board of irrigation has been formed from
officials in various Departments of the
government.
These splendid evidences of the trium-
plant progress of the irrigation cause
demand large representative and efec-
tive session of the irrigation congress in
1895. A further reason for such gather
ing is the fact that the presidential cam
paign of 1896 will be inagurated previous
to the assembling of another session of
this body, and that it is thus necessary
to formulate at Albuquerque the de-
mands which the friends of irrigation
will desire to make upon the great politi-
cal parties of the nation.
In view of the nature of the oppor-
tunity, program of extraordinary va
rietv, interest and Importance will be
arranged, and it is anticipated that this
session of the congress will be more
widely useful and influential than the pre-
vious convention at Salt Lake in 1891, in
at Los Angeles in 1898 and at Denver in
1894. The friends of irrigation through
out the United States-for to-day the
movement is national in its scope and in
terests-should unite in I'M effort to Oh.
tain a worthy result at Albuquerque.
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
In accordance with resolution of the
Third National Irrigation Congress al
Denver, Colorado, September 8, 1893 the
Fourth National Irrigation Congress will
be composed as follows:
l. All members of the national ex.
ecutive committee.
2. All members of state and terrific
rial irrigating committee.
3. Five delegates at-large, to be ap'
pointed by their respective governors
for each of the following states and ter
ritories: Arizona, California, Colorado
Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, NORTH
Oak ota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Da
kota, Texas, Utah, Washington ano
Wyoming. i.
4. Three delegates at large for eact
state and territory not heretofore enumer
, ated, to be appointed by the governor
of said states and territories, or in thu
case of the District of Columbia, by thu
president.
. 5. One delegate each from regularl!
organized irrigation, agricultural ant
horticultural societies, and societies o
engineers, irrigation companies, agricul
tural colleges and commercial bodies.
6. Duly accredited representatives 0
any foreign nation or colony, each mem
Der of the United States senate and hous
> of representatives, and each governor o
state or territory will be admitted a
honorary members.
: The use of proxies and the manner Q
casting the vote of delegations will b
regulated in accordance with resolutio
adopted at Denver and printed on pag
SO Of the official report of that meeting.
By order of the national executive CON
mittee.
Signed FRED L. ALLIES, Chairman.
WIN. E. SMYTHE, Secretary.