The Glenwood post., 1905-09-09
IRRIGATIONISTS
MAKE RESOLVES
Resolutions Passed by Session at
pOrtldnd---ReCOmmeRdS Forest
ServiCe----FdvOrS Sugar
Beet Industry
RECLAMATION SERVICE APPROVED

II is tHe opl ulon OF une NatlOual
Irrigation congress that the national
irrigation law should be so extended
by congress as to include the state of
Texas within its provisions, in 80 far
as to permit the secretary of the in
terrier to direct engineers of the United
States reclamation service to examine
and report upon feasible irrigation
projects, and, when approved accord
ing to the terms of the said law, to
superintend their construction, to the
end that Texas may have the benefit of
the service that is now extended to the
other arid sections.
This congress desires to express it's
high appreciation of the national irri
CATION law and halls with pleasure the
opportunities afforded under its bene-
ficient provisions for home making and
hope that the several governmental
enterprises now under contemplation
as we'll as under construction will be
pushed to a speedy and successful
completion.
We urgently request the congress
of the United States to consider and If
warranted by the constitution to enact
such laws as will enable the govern
the rights of eminent domain when
necessary to carry out the purpose of
the national irrigation law.
This congress favors the early re-
clamation of small tracts of land
whenever the cost per acre of same
does not exceed the cost per acre of
larger enterprises of similar character
and whenever in the Judgment of the
clamation of sufficient Importance to
receive attention.
We approve the creation of the
national forest service in accordance
with the resolutions of previous CON
crosses and advocate the maintenance
of forest reserves and the extension
and protection of forest reserves where
irrigation is necessary on tho stream
SlSHIS dllCNlCu we ulSO lllIolSc lilt
effective and business like administra-
tion of the forestry service under its
present head
We also heartily approve the eff
cient and thorough work of the recla
nation service in carrying on the
work of national reclamation where
works have been commenced and are
now being executed and have the full
est confidence in the honesty. ability
and capacity of the officials of that
service. We recommend that the
reclamation service and its represen-
tatives cooperate with the state
officers in matters affecting the states
landed interests.
We thoroughly commend the excel
lent work being carried forward by
the irrigation and drainage investiga
tions of the Office of experiment stations
United States department of agricul
ture, and recommend the continuance
and extension of this work
This congress endorses and com
mends the earnest, honest and faithful
work of the United States weather
bureau of the department agriculture
in establishing highly efficient
Chronological service in each state
of the arid and semi-arid regions,
which has proven itself of great value
and utility to the engineers of the
United States reclamation service,
and to all important irrigation enter
prises.
AS the continued prosperity of the
irrigated regions of the United States
will depend on the intelligence and
skill of the successive generations of
farmers and horticulturists dwelling
on the irrigated lands, this congress
gives its hearty support to the exten-
sion and perfecting of the American
system of agricultural education, not
only by strengthening the agricultural
! colleges, experiment stations and
farmers institutes, but also by the
better organization of the public
schools in rural communities through
tie consolidation of school districts
and other means so as to secure the
effective introduction of the teaching
of agricultural subjects into the
schools attended by the masses of our
rural youth.
1t having been demonstrated that
the irrigated lands throughout arid
and semi-a arid America are pre-emi
nently adapted to the culture of sugar
beets, and sugar factories having