Arizona republican., 1904-11-17
Little of Interest in the Fl
 PaSO Congress Yesterday
MEXICAN ORGANIZATION
The Meeting Receives a Letter From
 Pres. Roosevelt Urging Upon the Congress the Necessity of Inter- weaving the Interests of the West.

Fl Paso, Texas, Ncv. 16.-Aside from the technical information brought out at the convention today, it was devoid of unusual interest. Mexican dele gates are very enthusiastic over the prospect of being officially recognized by the convention. They are going back home and will organize a con- gress for Mexico, but they want affil- iation with this congress also.
 Among resolutions introduced and referred was one asking that the con- gress include Texas in the list of states that may benefit from national irriga- tion funds, one urging legislation ap- propriating fundsl for the creation of additional forest reserves, and another repeating and emphasizing the Tesolu- tions of previous congresses in favor of consolidating all government forestry work in the department of agriculture. Senator Newlands, of Nevada, is the most talked of man for the next presi- dent of the association.
 The following letter from President Roosevelt was read and aroused much enthusiasm in the irrigation congress: Washington. D. C., Nov. 10, 1904.
 "To the National Irrigation Con gress: It is a pleasure to send my l greeting to you. both as president of | the United States and as a man who has lived in the west and is eager for ! its prosperity. Whatever any man or body of men may believe as to any ! question in political controversy, we | may all unite in the great duty cf in- 1 terLational improvements; the duty O: making every foot of soil, every stream | and every other resource of natural oI human origin. contribute the very ut most to the permanent prosperity. Oi cur country. I congratulate you be- cause you are no longer striving foI i what once seemed a distant hope: you are no longer engaged in a campaign of education for the passage of the reclamation act. On the contrary your first great object is achieved. YcJ have yet to consider what has beer done and what is being done undel ] the act, by the reclamation service to consider means to give it it's larges and widest results. and to discuss thu broad problems Of irrigation methods and practices.
 ''It was through your efforts, anC those of men like you, that the peopl of the United States as a nation under took to attack the desert. and to d. away with it not only so far as ther is water now for that purpose, but t the fullest extent, for which wate may be developed hereafter.
 Now. that your first great objec has been accomplished in the passag g of the reclamation law you shOul
 make yourselves guardians Of tn future, and unreIenting and watchfu enemies of every attempt to vast any of the great resources in forestry
 grazing and mineral wealth, the fOun dation stones of the newer and greate
 west. For irrigation and every Othe interest which you represent, the per
 iod of exclusiveness is past.
 ''The stock interests are no longer fin dependent of mining interests. nc
 either of them independent cf the irr
 gator.
 "A closer Intervening than eve
 before is at hand, among all the grea r interests of the whole country. On
 cannot prosper without the others. z
 the future growth and greatness : other western interests will depend,
 the first degree, upon the develCI \ ment of irrigation, and the develoI 2 ment of irrigation will depend upO 5 the protection and wise use of existin forests, and the creation of new one ! and a proper control of grazing. Yol
 work for the good of one interest
 for the good of all.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT %