The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-22

instruction in the social and industrial
features of irrigation should be pro-
Vided in every western university. A
number Of agricultural colleges, Colo
rado being especially entitled to COM
mendation, are rendering valuable
service to the west by their instruction
in irrigation engineering and an inves-
tlgation of its problems This should
be supplemented ~ equally thorough
instruction in the laws and methods
which should control the ownership and
distribution of streams IF Jefferson
was right in believing that one Of the
functions of universities is to form the
statesman. legislators and judges on
whom public prosperity and individual
happiness so much depends. there is no
question that the state universities of
the arid region can in no way more
effectively serve the commemorative
which support them than by instruct
ing their students in the principles
which should govern the disposal of the
commodity which is destined 20 eXer-
else a larger influence over the pros
perity and growth OF the western third
of the United States than all other in
duences com bined"
President Slocum of Colorado college
delivered the invocation. and weleom-
ing addresses were made by Mr.. Glib
ert Mcclure, secretary of the Colorado
Springs chamber of commerce.; Mayor
J. r. Robinson and Governor Charles
$. Thomas, to which responses were
made by Secretary B. r. Stahi of the
congress, Colonel 3. F. Clayton of
Iowa, in place of Major G. NJ. Ryals of
Georgia, who was absent. and Presi-
dent Worth OF the North Dakota Agri-
cultural college.
Annual Address of President.
President r. G. F. Candage delivered
his annual address. In it he said:
1T is estimated that at the present
time-and there are. yet many million
acres of rich unimproved farming lands
to be occupied-the United States
produce one-fourth of the worlds
wheat, 60 per cent of it's cotton, 70 per
cent of its corn, beside large crops of
oats, barley, rye and other farm pro-
ducts, and that the exports of them
with the products of forests, manufac-
lures and of mines, amount in the ag
gregate to more than $1,000, 100000 an
nually.
In the year 1859 the exports were
as follows:
Products of agriculture ......$784, 989, 0S7
Products of forests $1,000. 42,126,964
Products of mines -...... 1882, sos
Products of fisheries. 1900. 6,025, 446
Products Of manufactures :. 39S,675, 55S
And all others .............. 3,281, 559
Total. s., 2O3, 931, 222
I'm Importance, magnitude and value
the products of the soil represented by
the delegates to this congress over
shadow all other interests making for
the comfort, happiness and well-being
of our country. and its people.
.r.f Ir,sI ~
try in a single year is estimated at
800 600, 900, and the increase in fowls
at $50, 000, 900 to SAC, 000, 600 mOrei''
President Candage then dwelt on the
Importance of railroads to the farmer,
urged an improved mail service to
South America in American ships, an
increase in the merchant marine, an
isthmus canal and better agricultural
education. He declared in favor of the
taxation of government bonds, and
then took up the important part the
farmer had played in war and peace.
Among the subjects recommended
for consideration were: The questions
of closer uniformity in state laws re-
garding marriage, divorce, inheritance,
taxation, mortgage foreclosure, right of
redemption and right of woman to hold
and dispose of her property.
The afternoon session took a recess
after the reading of President Can
dage's address. At the second after
noon session, Mr.. F. a. Converse of
New York addressed the convention on
the various methods for reducing pro-
ducti1n and increasing profits.
The evening session was addressed
by Amos r. Smith of New York on
Our Shipping interests" and by Pro-
fessor Mead.