The San Francisco call., 1903-09-18

of officers presented will be adopted by
the congress by a unanimous vote.
The Goblin moth ruined the chances of
Utah TO win the Clark cup for the fruit
exhibit of the arid States display. Al
though the exhibit was by far the most
elaborate, the examining board promptly
turned it down on discovering the moth
and the beautiful trophy was awarded to
Idaho.
The Anheuser- Busch cup for the best
display of hops was awarded to McNeit
Bros. of North Yakima, Wash, and the
Pabst cup for the best barley exhibit
from the arid States was given to the
Manhattan Mailing Company of ManEat-
tan, Mont. The sugar beet award may
not be made until Saturday. as an elabo-
rate system of testing is being made
At the evening session the congress ac-
cepted an invitation to visit on next Sat
urday the Agricultural College at Logan,
Utah, and the great irrigation works or
the Bear River Valley. Frederick W.
Taylor, chief of the department OF agrl-
culture at the worlds fair, st. Louis, then
spoke on agriculture under irrigation as
shown at the worlds fair.
WORK is ONLY WELL BEGUN.
George H. Maxwell of the National Ir-
rigation Association spoke on The VIC
tories of Peace" Right here the night on
the land law question was brought be-
fore the convention. Maxwell brought the
delegates to their feet in an eloquent plea
to act not for themselves but for future
generations and the irrigation expert was
wildly cheered when he concluded.
William E. Smythe of San Diego, CAL,
originator of the National Irrigation Con-
gress from which the present movement
has grown, delivered an address entitled,
1.-THE Influence of Irrigation on the Amer
a fTfhlIfa the
Utah pioneers as the fathers OF the irri-
CATION industry among English speaking
men, and then sketcned the influence or
irrigation and the environment OF the
arid region on social life ana lndustrlal
organization. He predicted a very hlg8
development of cooperation as the out
come of natural conditions in the West.
This is already seen in the management
of the water supply and will extend IN
all directions
The six great landmarks in irrigation
history, as described by the speaker, were
the report of Major John w. Powell on
LANDS. of the Arid Region 1873: the
birth of the national irrigation movement
through the Salt Lake convention, 1881
the report of Captain Hiram NJ. Chitten-
den on Reservoirs of the Arid Region, "
1897; the organization of the aggressive
propaganda among commercial interests,
1898; the Presidents message, 1901, and
the passage of the Hansborough-New-
lands bill. 1902. He proceeded as follows:
What of the future? Have we completed our
work? BY no means--it is only wen Degun'
The present policy of national irrigation rep
resents only an experimental stage OF the
work. The reclamation fund contains to-day
merely bagatelle-ten to fifteen millions dol
lars. With that can make few samples.
but cannot begin TO supply the demand
for irrigated homesteads which already presses
upon us to say nothing Of the incalculable
demands of the future.
We must spend much in building homes
AS cheerfully spend in building navies--as
much in organizing the armies OF peace as we
spend in maintaining the armies of war-as
much in averting the menace OF foes at home
(the foes of want of land-hunger,. Of crav-
ing for economic independence) as we would
spend in repelling the invasion of foreign foes.
How much money must ultimately have
we do not pretend to say; but this we will
promise: That for every dollar we receive for
national irrigation, for national forestry, for
national home building, we Will return many
dollars In taxes, direct and Indirect to county.
State and nation. and many more dollars in
social and economic gains which no aotnorv