The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
KANSAS news.
Final Summing Up Of the Irri-
cation Convention.
Meeting at Garden City Gave
Encouragement to Farmers.
ORGANIZATION FORMED
Booth Tucker Tells Of Success
Of Salvation Colonists.
Principal Products Sugar Beets,
Melons and Cucumber Seeds.

Garden City. April 2O.-The irrigation
convention of representative farmers
and business men of the Arkansas val
ley, in session here last Thursday and
Friday, organized the western KIM
gas Irrigation association for the pro-
motion of practical irrigation The as
sociaions annual meetings viii be in
Garden City in October. and all irriga-
tion companies. Cities commercial
clubs and counties will be entitled to
representation. At the convention adj
dresses We're delivered by John Hail Of
Syracuse. vice president Of the Nation
81 Irrigation association: Frederick Du-
mont Smith of Kinsley: Prof E. Ha-
worth Of the University of Kansas.
Charles f. Clyne of stafford; John H.
Churchill of Dodge City. president of
the state board of agriculture: w. r.
Hopkins Of Garden City; Victor Muir
dock Of Wichita; Thomas Lloyd Of
Rocky Ford, Col. General Booth
Tucker Of the Salvation Army and
Captain Holland. manager of the SAL
walton Army colony at Amity, Col
general Booth-Tucker and Captain
Holland We're not on the programme,
OUT their addresses were of particular
interest on account of the relation to
their irrigation and colonization expert
ment- General BOoth4Tucker before
ne took UP Salvation Army work. was
Lieutenant governor of a British
province in India, and there became
familiar with the crude methods and
success of irrigation in that country.
He said If the same industry and per
severance should Be employed in the
Arkansas valley with the modern ma
chinery obtainable here 1 million per-
sons might be settled in the Arkansas /
valley between Garden City and Rocky
Ford This region, he declared with
proper energy and small farming ought
to sustain a family on every acre. What
is needed are men and money, live peO-
pie and more cash to settle those peo-
pie. Colonization is the handmade OF
irrigation. -Four hundred persons have
settled at Amity since the colony was
established FIVE years ago. They are
good families and getting on well.
Every family, the general said, has
twenty acres and a home, and the head (
OF every family possesses from 81, 600 to
$4,000. All this was accomplished with (
In nVe years. The Salvation Army has /
spent $3.50 600 60 esta blish this colony, (
but IT will all come back. 1t costs about [
$500 to settle a family in the colony, /
and the colonists do the rest One-half /
the colonists are children and they are I
useful in wedding sugar beets. The /
q 49, IA ntains an orphanase. IF the
s.it1y naI me money it could easily /
-9 2v,V0O persons in the valley. The /
49, bought 1000 acres and divided it
an ~ ~ small farms,
Ger. General Booxh-Tucker believes in +
MI. 1armS--rand intense cultivation /
r., q u y,lSelis the land at $40 an acre I
rrbfe ITS are put up to $500 to $780, /
= t,,sS,-tf5 high, but the scheme is to keep I
people on the farms
Captain Holland spoke of the meth (
DDS Of the colony in detail and said the I
principal products are sugar beets, can (
taloupes and cucumber seeds.
lT..rf. of ia az
ISOLATION until the first annual meeting:
President I. /. Diesem, Garden City; I
vice president. J. c. Starr. Scott City; 4
secretary, G. A. Loucks, Lakin; treas (
urer John Hale Syracuse; executive
committee. r.. NJ. Lawrence Garden
City. w. O. Bourne, Scott City; +. r.
Thorp. Lakin, J. T. Hastings, Clmar-
rom I H. Churchill Dodge City Paul
Rich, Coolidge; A. A. Barlow, Santa
The convention adopted the following
resolutions.
In view of the fact that the Dodge
City land district Of which southwest
ern Kansas is a part has contributed
largely and is continuing to contribute
to the fund segregated and set apart by
the federal government for irrigation
purposes, we urge our senators ana
members in congress to use their united
influence to secure at an early date the
appropriation of a part of this fund for
use in this territory for the building of
storage reservoirs OF DAilEi. w i1t az may
be determined to the best interests Of
irrigation in this vicinity
We call attention to the splendid re-
suits that have so early been achieved
in the Arkansas valley with sugar beets
as a result of the bounty generously
granted by the two preceding legisla-
lures Of the state and hereby express
our gratitude to the members of those
two bodies who supported and voted
Tor those appropriations. We call at
tention to the fact that the foundation
for a great and growing industry has so
cheaply been laid. diversifying and ex-
tending our resources. enabling us to
support larger population and to add
10 the wealth of the state
Belieeing that in the economical
utilization of the great Arkansas river
underfIow lie the greatest future re-
suits to this valley and realizing that it
is impossible to enlist private capital in
any untried experiments looking to that
end; and believing that with the eX-
penditure of a limited sum it would be
possible to demonstrate the practicable
ty OF q plan to bring this underfiOw to
the surface By gravity OF otherwise,
thus insuring a water supply for the
Thole valley we urge the next legisla-