The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23
WILL HEAR
NOTED TAKERS
Preliminary Sketch Of Ogden
Programme Presented.
AN IMPORTANT
SESSION
NATIONAL IRRIGATION LAW TO
BE DISCUSSED.

Ogden, Otdh. Sept. l0-lS, without qOeS-
ton will be the most important conven-
ton ever held in America as to irriga-
ton and forestry, and as to agriculture
and horticulture under irrigation. IL
will be remarkably representative Of
the best thought and practical expert
ence of the west.
The convention will begin its first ses-
sion. after an Invocation. by the sing
ing of the prize ode 10 Irrigation,
written by Mrs. Gilbert McCIurg of
Colorado Springs, and sung by the Tab
ernacle choir of over 200 voices.
Prominent in the programme viii De
a discussion of the national irrigation
law and its application by Frederick
H. Newell, chief Of government irriga-
ton surveys. and addresses will be de-
livered in this section of the pro-
gramme-of which Mr.. Newell will act
as chairman-by various engineers of
the government. who will describe and
report on the various irrigation work
planned and considered as feasible for
immediate building by the federal gov
eminent under the reclamation law.
Short (ten-minute) addresses will be
the general rule so as to permit lively
discussion after each address and
throughout the sessions of the congress.
In the department of irrigation in
other session of the congress, short adj
dresses will be presented by experts
and scientists of prominent reputation
on Irrigation Investigations" Eco
nomic Phases of Irrigation" Drain
age Investigation, - The Value OF the
Study Of the Duty of Water" and kin
dred topics. Among speakers on gov
eminent work in this section will be
DR.. w. H. Beal, Clarence 7. johnson,
DR.. Richard 7. Ely, Professor o. V. P.
Stout. J. G. Haney, Professor Samuel
Fortier, c. G. Elliott and Thomas H.
Means
One of the notices of the congress
is that. Colonization is Progress" and
ii has been epigrammatically expressed.
Let us make an inland empire in
America through irrigation and inten-
sive cultivation of the soil. for land
without population is a wilderness.
population without land is a mob"
Commander Frederick Booth Tucker
the national leader OF the Salvation
army. is coming from New York 10
attend the congress and TO speak on
Colonization, of which he has had
valuable, practical experience. c. +.
Wantland of Denver will present a bril-
liant number Of speeches, composed OF
railroad presidents and prominent Off
Gals, governors. senators and congress-
men, and prominent men of affairs well
known throughout the west, promise to
speak on COLONIZATION" in it's various
phases. Mr.. Mainland acts as chair
man of this section OF the programme.
There are to be important addresses
.-on THE national irrigation law: its
ada ptability to the conditions and needs
of the several states and territories in
which it is operated and its relation
ship TO the local laws and customs"
en- The watershed. its functions and
the source of water supply; its rela-
ton TO water users and how 1t should
be managed to effect the greatest pos
sible good" Another important topic
viii be The Primary Needs of Present
Day Irrigation, and How They May Be
Best Provided
Under the subject of the National
Irrigation Law" addresses, il is ex-
pected, will be made and discussion en-
tered upon by F. H Newell, Senator
Fred T. Dubois, Senator F. E. War
rem, Congressman Franklin E. Brooks.
Senator T. NJ Patterson CONGRESSMAN
Mondell, Senator Paris Gibson. George
II. Maxwell, Judge Joseph NJ. Carey.
Morris Bien, Francis G. Newlands and
others.
1t is expected that Mr. Clifford Pin
chot, chief forester of the government.
Will take charge Of that section of the
programme to be devoted to forestry
The president of the American For
estry association and the secretary Of
that organization will attend the con-
gress, as viii Mr.. Tarleton H. Bean. the
chief Of the department of forestry OF
the St. Louis Universal exposition: ami
from the exposition will also be present
Frederick ". Taylor, chief of agricul-
ture.
The state engineers of the semi-arid
region viii be present to report on the
progress OF irrigation in the states and
territories during the past year.
Directors of agricultural experiment
I stations and presidents OF state agri-
cultural colleges will contribute i'm
portant information to the delegates.
Addresses will be made on the inn
portant questions of Electric Power"
and the Dual Values in Storage o.
| Torrential Streams" Correct Design
Transmission of Power for Pumping. ."
Underground Water Resources Avail
able for Irrigation" "Alkal Rec1ama-
ton" etc.
DR.. Wiley chief chemist of the gov
eminent, has prepared a paper for the
congress on Sugar in Fruits and Veg
etables Grown Under Irrigation. With
Special Reference to Sugar Beets" and
the programme will contain other ad-
I
and horticulturists.
In view Of the four $500 prize loving
cups which win be presented, respect
/ lively. for the best brewing barley, best
/ brewing hops. hest exhibit of fresh
I fruits, and best sugar beets exhibited
at the congress, there viii be addresses
I on the subject of Hops, the Kind ami
I Culture that Secured the Cup" Fruit I.
/ How the Prize Was Produced" and on
The Soil. Seed. Climate and Culture
| Essential to the Excellence Of Barley
| for Brewing. as We'll as of Beets for
| Sugar Production"
Hon. George II. Maxwell. Chairman
! executive committee National Irriga-
ton association. will deliver an address
/ under the head Of The Victories OF
! Peace" and Hon William e Smythe
I of California. the Father of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress- - will adj
/ dress the delegates on The influence
I of Irrigation ON the American Ideal -
The programme Of the congress is far
I from. complete AT this writing but
enough strong addresses and papers
. have been secured to warrant the
( prophecy that the eleventh will he the
most successful. practical and brilliant
| Irrigation congress ever held in the
world. Among other scientific men. en-
| gineers and experts who will Join in
| the discussion are A. F. Doremus. J..
J. Carpenter. j. ". Kerr. Charles d.
| Marx. J. A. WidtsOe, Captain Hiram NJ.
/ Chittenden, W. NJ Reed. +. H. Brand
! enberg. w. s. Palmer. r. NJ Harding.
Arthur p. Davis, George Y. Wisner.
J. b. Lippincott II. A. Storrs. A. L.
Fellows. d. w. Ross L. H. Taylor. n.
.