The San Francisco call., 1905-06-15
THE IRRIGATION COMMITTEE.

n Is congress
Irrigation that their itinerary has been cahgeu ~
as to include the great irrigation districts of the San Joaquin
Valley In its original their included only southern
California and brief visit to the Sacramento vaey @ f
subject of irrigation novelty to the Eastern
eTons Being unacouaned with the methods and the results
of irrigation their enlarged of the subject has led them TO
inspect very center where than in any ote pace "
this continent ii has produced gratifying results
In the San Joaquin Valley they have an object lesson Ina a
OF the quality and capacity that which is under ne wate
They irrigation applied to greater variety OF vauao
they before and after taking water Before It's
features those OF the desert Alter it is transformed INTO
garden equal to which planted eastward in Eden Al
Tuock they study the economies OF nrgauon
system hundred and fifty thousand acres OF
land at a cost the whole of only $40 per acre
they the pioneers OF irrigation in that region they
may the neracng and fortuneosing effort by Wen
that great work accomplished Long held and fought by
insgaon and intrigue had to work its way over
litigation popular nghborhood suspicion and every form
opposition that be imposed between great public improve
realization SO they study not only irrigation and
effects but idea of the and devotion which Cali
bring overcoming difficulties laid upon
great enterprises Now the canals are running u OF the
surplus OF the Tuoumne River the alfalfa helds are gree
their second cutting and the immense stacks OF emerald nay LOOK
like the public buildings OF a city
the pride California That
region market of the United States and busy
conquest the market of the world There irrigation
applied variety OF field and fruit vegetables and shade
ornamental and shrubs that not found group on the
the anywhere else in the world The
committee will the region get an idea OF the various uses OF
brings lumber from the forests
dmes and after delivering It's cargo flows INTO bitches to rr-
gate plains They ride moved by electricity
by the that makes the
which the charm and profit OF the valley Nowhere else
in the world will they find serving many purposes
The be impressed with the relation OF climate
highest profit irrigation The members all OF this
the San Joaquin Valley and when they inspect the Saca
will the bloom orchards,
that belt that stretches from Kern Butte County,
will upon grain fields alfalfa meadows olives,
wanut and Almonds and all the fruits
growing together fertzed by the and promoted by
Climate which makes irrigation more profitable than is possible any
California This will the members OF
es energetic promotion of the complete irrigation OF both
the Valley project that colossal its
scope accomplished the results will fully justify
that toll and of the work will be forgotten sacrifice,
be remembered shrewd business policy.
Meeting Commonwealth Club escorted by the
the Board of Trade and breaking bread with the Water and
Society the members of Congress will get lesson the
harmony of these co-orkers in the building of California and will
that people fully alive all the bewildering
possibilities Of They able the
by showing the results of individual and cooperative effort
and these organizations
AS for hospitality evident that if the
what will be put the trouble of asking for it.