The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-28

| delegates and a motion finally prevailed
| to refer the paper to the committee on
! resolutions
Chicago Selected.
The question of the next meeting
place came next upon the order of
business. There were several candi-
dates for the meeting next year-Cleve-
land. st. Paul, Chicago, st. Louis, Los
Angeles, Washington, d. c. The state
of Washington also had it's claim pre-
sented ably and eloquently by 6taunch
advocates, and two hours were con-
sumed in the discussion of this mat
ter Judge Smith, who placed St Paul
in nomination, subsequently withdrew
his candidate in favor of Chicago. Air.
Cannon subsequently withdrew the city
of st. Louis. On an informal ballot st.
Paul received 10 votes, Chicago 6S, and
the rest scattering. Upon motion Chi
cago was made the unanimous choice
of the convention. The time for the
meeting is left to the executive COM
mittee.
Ex-Governor McCord of Arizona, upon
invitation, delivered a Commute ad-
dress upon the needs and conditions of
arid regions. Governor McCords in
PRODUCTION dealt briefly with the devel-
opment and reclamation OF arid lands
and his description Of what has been
done was comprehensive and complete.
The speaker referred to the present
conditions as they exist in the arid
states, speaking especially of his own
state.
A National System.
In regard to the future development
OF arid lands and the establishment of
| irrigation systems, Governor McCord
| reviewed the various plans that have
| been proposed. State ownership he op
posed as being liable to bring about
great abuses, He advocated eloquent
ly and warmly a national system of
logical of all systems. The education
of the people Of the East is the first
thing to be accomplished. They must
be brought to understand the real sig
nficance of this reclamation of a vast
empire OF measureless possibilities.
Governor McCord's address ranks as
one of the ablest of the entire session
Of the congress. At it's conclusion the
congress adjourned till 1:30 in the af-
ternoon.
The Afternoon Session.
The afternoon session was opened
by the delivery of an able paper on the
conservation of water supply by ]. b.
Collins of Montana superintendent of
the forest reserve system in Montana
Mr. Collins began by setting forth the
vast extent of water sheds of this coun-
try, and the great Importance that for
ests play in furnishing a constant sup
ply of water to the sources of great
rivers that are the life-giving arteries
of nature. The speaker continued by
giving an illustration of points made,
incidents that have come under his per-
sonal observation as superintendent
of the reserves in this state.
Nv ;r- tlat
serve system means much to the agri-
culturalist. 1t is not the intention of
the government to lock up these for
est reserves. but on the contrary it is
the desire of the government that ma
ture timber be cut to supply the abso-
lutte needs of miners, settlers and stock
men.
Professor j. w. Toumy of Arizona,
representing the National Forestry di-
vision read an important paper upon
the general object of the forest reserve
system
The New Oficers
At the conclusion of Professor Tou-
my's paper the report of the commit
tee on nominations was received and
adopted unanimously. the secretary
casting the vote of the congress for the
following officers: President. Elwood
Mead, Wyoming; first vice-president,
s. NJ. Emery, Montana; second vice
president, L. w. Shurtliff, Utah; third
vice-president, c. B. HURT Idaho:
secretary, H. B. MaXson, Nevada. On
motion, George Fl. Maxwell of Cali
fornia was elected national lecturer.
and x-officio a member of the execu-
tive committee. The national execu-
tive committee was elected as follows:
Arizona, j. H. McClintock; California.
Scipio Craig: District of Columbia, F..
F. Best; Idaho, ID. d. Ross: Illinois,
J. E. Forrest; Indiana, j. H. McNeeley:
Michigan. Q. E. McCutcheon: Missouri,
Tom r. Cannon; Massachusetts, Her
bert Myrick; Minnesota, F. w. Wilsey;
Montana, l. D. O'Donnell: Nebraska,
E. NJ. Allen: New Mexico, Bradford
Prince; Nevada, ]. e. Stubbs Oregon.
w. N. Jones; Utah, G. L. Swendson;
Washington o. r. Holcomb; Wyoming,
Fred Bond.
National Legislation.
Colonel H. B. Maxson of Nevada,
chairman of the committee on national
legislation, presented the following re-
port:
The National Irrigation Congress-
Eighth Session. Missoula, Montana:
'Gentlemen-The undersigned, as
chairman of your committee on ma
tional legislation, would respectfully re-
port: That since the last annual report
submitted to this congress at Cheyenne,
Wyo., and printed in the proceedings Of
that session, this committee can report
substantial progress. And, by way Of
detail, l will state that in our last re-
port We had succeeded in getting the
arid land commission of the house of
representatives to report unanimously
in favor of a bill to amend the Carey
act in such manner as to remove all
parts of the act that had proved inope-
rative, detrimental TO the interest of the
act in its appliCation by the various
states that had taken advantage of the
grant of 1000 900 acres of land, proposed
TO be offered to the states as a grant
to such states as would reclaim the
same, under the conditions of the act.
The opponents of the bill, and / might
here remark that they were representa-
tiVes from Atlantic coast states, where
no knowledge whatever exists of the
conditions of the arid land region, sue
ceeded in preventing action being taken
on the proposed bill.