The Florence tribune., 1900-12-01
NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS
4 Most Successful Meeting in Chicago
 Last Week.


 themselves in fear and trembling, for now they have a reasonable hope, l even grounds for confident assurance, that the problem will soon be solved by the highest scientific and engineer. ing skill, backed by the powerful arm of the Federal government.
 The last morning session was large ly given over to business, but the afternoon was field day for Chicago business men, and those who repre- sent interests which will be benefited by a complete national development. Indeed, it has never been made moro clear that the various industrial factors of the eountry-farm and fac tory-are closely interdependent.
 Tom L. Cannon, secretary of the St. 1 Louis Manufacturing Association, in an itnpassioned address, appealed to the convention to secure the adoption of the national irrigation policy, not from the standpoint of charity, but of justice.
 MT. Devinney of Chicago said that one of the incest moves ever made by the Irrigation Congress was when it decided to hold it's convention in the East, for it has taken the irrigation problem out of the domain of local economies, and made it national, coun- try-wide.
 Following after, and emphasizing the idea of the previous speaker, George 5. Chandler of Chicago added that just as the prosperous Middle West was the result of wise solution of the transportation problem of fifty years ago, so prosperous Far West would surely follow us the result of wise solution of the irrigation problem of to-day.
 The features of the evening session were an impronptu address by Con- greesman Newlands of Nevada, evinc- ing warm friendship for the irriga- ton cause, and a splendid idea from George II. Maxwell, The latter draws his inspiration and experience from so wide field that he always says some thing new, something exactly to it the occasion.
 The Congress has been big success.
 The following resolutions were uu- animously adopted:
 ''We hail with satisfaction the fact that both the great political parties ip their platforms in the last campaign, declared in favor of the reclamation of Arid America in order that settlers might build homes on the public do- main, and to that end we urge upon Congress that national appropriations commensurate with the magnitude of the problem should be made for the preservation of the forest and the re- forestatiou of the denuded area us natural storage reservoirs, and for the construction by the national govern ment, as part of.its policy of internal improvement, of storage reservoirs and other works for flood protection and to save for use in aid of navigation and irrigation the waters which now run to waste, and for the development of artesian and subterranean sources of water supplies. The water of all streams should forever remain subject to the public control, and the right to the use of water for irrigation should inhere in the land irrigated, and bene- fcial use be the basis, the measure and the limit of the right.
 "We commend the efficient work of the various bureaus of the national government in the investigation of the physical and legal problems and other conditions relating to irrigation, and in promoting the adoption of more effec- tive laws, customs and methods of irrigated agriculture, and urge upon Congress the necessity of providing liberal appropriations for this import ant work.
 1.-The work of building the reservoirs necessary to store the floods should be done directly by hegovernment under existing statutes relative to the em- ploying of labor and hours of workmen under laws that will give to all Amer ican citizens fair and equal opportun- ity to get, first, employment, and then home on the land"
 The afternoon session was devoted to addressess. Those who spoke were Tom L. Cannon, secretary of the St. Louis Manufacturers Association Charles Truax, Elliot Durand and B. C. Chandler, the latter three discussing the Industrial and Commercial Im- portauce of Irrigation"
 How to Cure Group.
 Mir. R. Gray, who lives near Amenia, Duchess county, N. Y., says: "Cham- ha-1aip5s co,,uh Remedy is tha hast