The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12

Pursuant 10 the order of the Fourth Irrigation Congr. S and to deaigna ton by the National Executive Com mittee, the Filth Annual Session 0 the National Irrigation Congress will be held in the City of Phoenir, Ari- zona, upon the dates of December 15 IS and r, 1896.
 The membership of the body will be made up as follows, in accordance with the resolutions of the Third and Fourth Congresses:
 BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
 1. All members of the National EX- ecutive Committee.
 ,. All members of the State and Territorial Irrigation Commissions. 2. Five delegates at large, to be ap- pointed by their respective governors for each of the following States and Territories Arizona, California, Cole rado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebras- ka, Nevada, New Mexico, North Da- kota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Da- kota. Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
 4. Three delegates at large for each State and Territory not heretofore enumerated, to be appointed by the Governors of said States and Tcrrito- ries; or, in the case of the District of Columbia, by tbe President.
 5. One delegate each from regularly organized Irrigation, Agricultural, and Horticultural Societies, and Societies of Engineers, Irrigation Companies, Agricultural Colleges, and commercial bodies, such as Boards of Trade, Cham bers of Commerce, etc.
 6. Duly accredited representatives of any foreign nation or colony, each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and each Governor Of State or Territory will be admitted as honorary members. THE WORK OF THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
 The work of the National Irrigation Congress has now continued for more than five years. The first session was held in the city of Salt Lake, Utah ; the second in Los Angeles, California; the third in Denver, Colorado; and the fourth in Albuquerque, New Mex leo. Each session was marked by keen interest and by intelligent and effective work in the cause of irrigation and the reclamation of the arid lands of the West. To the sessions have come the brightest minds of the Union, seeking to solve in concord the vexed questions upon the solution of which depends the further development of the western and west central plains. The work has not been without it's fruit. Interst has been awakened in points remote from the irrigated regions and the reclamation of the waste areas is now regarded in all justice as one of the most important problems awaiting legislation.
 THE FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION.
 The coming session at Phoenix will it is not doubted, be the most effective of all. Particularly prominent will be made the discussion of points of legisla. tion in order that well-digested meas ures be prepared for the consideration of the Federal Congress and of the State Legislatures. Though able au- thorities will be in attendance anC have been placed upon the programme for the presentation of subjects O. technical and economic interest, 1t Il designed that the Fifth Congress shal be body with work far more genera ! predecessors. Addresses presenting subjects shall be limited to fifteer minutes and the subsequent discussion to half an hour, this ruling of thu Executive Committee not applying however, to the discussion of legisla- tiOn or resolutions.
 PHoENIX AND ITS ENVIRONMENTS.
 The city of Phoenix, chosen for tn location of the Fifth Congress, is il every way we'll adapted. It is thrifty and progressive city of 12,OO' inhabitants, the capital of the Terri tory of Arizona, and is excellent. we'll prepared for the reception o even the thousands who will come t. attend the Congress. Its local com mittee of arrangements and reception IS already at work and the promise already at work and the promise l extended that every visitor will b furnished with the best accommoda tions at prices even lower than us ually charged locally. The city situated in the midst of the riches irrigated valley in America, that C Salt River, where irrigation works c |, the grandest magnitude are to b studied-works that have transforme the parched plains into wondrous ol chards and vast fields of alfalfa. Ampl onnortnnitY will be afforded delegate