Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-30
CONSIDER IRRIGATION
Session Will be Held at Ogden,
Utah, Beginning September lS-
interesting Program Arranged.
IRRIGATION OFFICIALS ISSUE CALL

An official call has been issued for
the meeting of the eleventh National
Irrigation congress, which will be held
at Ogden, Utah, from Sept. Is to 18 in
elusive. The call is signed by Senator
w. A. Clark, president of the congress-,
and other members of the executive
board, and sets forth the objects of the
meeting, the program and the basis of
representation from each state and ter
ritory in the union.
The official call is as follows:
The eleventh National Irrigation
congress will be held at Ogden, Utah,
Sept. Is to 18, inclusive, 1908:
A convention of vital concern to the
American nation; to those who would
make two blades Of grass grow where
one grew before; to all who realize that
water is the midas touch which turns
the desert sands to gold; convention
of specific significance to the states
and territories whose arid lands are to
be reclaimed by the federal govern
ment under the provisions of the Ma
tional Irrigation act, namely, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, North Dakoto,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wash
ington and Wyoming.
Government and leading irrigation
experts, practical farmers, irrigation
lists, fruit growers, representatives from
state agricultural institutions, state en-
gineers, government and noted forest
ers, as we'll as press representatives,
business men, offio iGjs and Lawmakers,
will be in attendance and participate
in the discussion.
The program will include:
Practical irrigation and forestry les
sons.
Report of experts.
Application of provisions of the re-
clamation act.
State program under the national
act.
Views on settlement of legal compli-
cations.
And the pertinent and important
theme of colonization.
Utah being the pioneer state in irri-
cation science proffers special oppor-
tunities for the study of it's history and
progress. Railroad and other excur-
sions covering this field will be ar
ranged for delegates by local commit
tees.
For the first time in the history of
the irrigation congress, the eleventh
convention has been literally fostered
by state appropriation-w which sum has
been doubled by private subscription
from officers of the congress and the
citizens of Ogden and Utah-so that a
large fund guarantees the successful
conduct of the program and hospitable
entertainment of all visiting delegates.
Business men will be interested to
meet here with electrical and irrigation
engineers to discuss the dual values in
storage of torrential streams.
In the far eastern and southern
states of the humid region, irrigation
methods are being studied and put into
practice to save crops in seasons of
drouth, and to increase the value of
natural resources. Flood sufferers in
southern states should confer at this
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congress- with those requiring reser-
voirs at the head waters of the great
rivers. 1t may be said, therefore, that
the east and south here learn from the
west, and delegates should attend this
congress, not alone from the sixteen
specially interested far western states.
but from every state in the union.
President Roosevelt, throughout his
recent western tour, frequently gave
utterance to his belief that national aid
for the reclamation of the arid west is
of paramount Importance in our ma
tional policy; and to foster this policv
is the work of this congress-"To save
| the forests and store the floods"
The program for the congress will be
carefully arranged with the view of
achieving practical benefits and pro-
gress. Specially favorable railroads