East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-22
PLAN FOR CONGRESS
IDAHO WILL ROYALTY
ENTERTAIN IRIuGATORS.
Congress- of tho National Irrigation
Association Win he Held at Boise
Next Year and Already That City
Is Planning an Elaborate Program
--Sldetrlps and Excursions VIII Be
Numerous.

The plan of Monte Il. Gwinn, chair
man of the executive committee OF
the National Irrigation congress,
which meets next year in .-oise, is to
make the event one of statewide inn
portance, says the Boise Statesman.
He also hopes To so arrange matters
that the delegates to the congress will
see more big irrigation enterprises in
smaller area than they ever saw
| before.
1t is the plan to have a three day
| session of the congress in Boise, and
after adjournment to arrange for eX-
cursions of delegates to Twin Falls,
Burley, Bull, Minidoka, American
Falls, st. Anthony, Weiser and other
points of particular irrigation interest.
II Is believed that very satisfactory
rates can be arranged with the Ore
gon Short Line for these short eXcur-
sions from Boise and it is not impossi-
BILE that an entire special train will
be placed at the disposal of the dele
gates on this occasion.
The action OF the executive commit
tee, working in conjunction with the
Boise chamber OF commerce. in NAM
ing all the newspaper men of the
state as a committee on publicity and
promotion, will result in not only
widely advertising the congress among
the people of this state but will like
wise carry the glad news that such a
congress will meet here to the far
corners of the earth.
The selection of Boise as the next
meeting place of the congress was
brought about by a presentation by
the Idaho delegation to the last con-
gress of facts and figures showing
that this state, and particularly this
part of the state, is the greatest and
most successful irrigation field in the
world today.
The Twin Falls tract alone will ap-
peal to the delegates to the Boise con-
gress, who may have heard u great
deal about the great irrigation enter
prises of modern times, but who have
not been permitted to witness with his
own eyes the transformation of sage
| and most fertile districts in the rich
| and fertile west.
One year ago the Twin Falls tract
was vast waste of sagebrush, with
not single house thereon. Today
there are thousands of happy and
| prosperous farmers, living in snug
homes. surrounded by growing crops,
hn oil S,f
| the people of this tract, II with be nec-
essary to point to but one thing as
proof:
The fact that the Twin Falls exhibit
at the Idaho IntermOuntain fair, in
competition with exhibits from some
of the Oldest and certainly some OF
the richest districts of the state, won
second prize. 1t would be safe to
challenge the world to produce a case
in parallel to this one, which is an
instance OF thousand blades of grass
growing today where one grew last
year.
To carry out the plans of the execu-
| tive committee will require a large
sum of money. 1t is estimated that
at least $4,000 will be necessary to ar
range for a suitable and consistent re-
ception and entertainment to the dele
gates to the congress.
Boise will shortly be asked by a
committee to subscribe funds for this
purpose and there is every reason to
believe that liberal response will be
made to such an appeal. Other towns
to which the committee plans excur-
sions, will be invited to join in the
entertainment of the visitors, and ar
range such details as will correctly
come within their province.
At Twin Falls, for instance, 1t is the
plan to spend full day and night,
and it will be urged upon the dele
gates to the congress that all be pres
ent on this Junket as Twin Falls pre-
sents the finest object lesson of irri-
CATION in the west.