Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-18

the value of all the transporta-
ton and other industries of the
entire country.
''The exhibit arranged at Port
land is intended to bring out
some of the great features, and
al the same time show in detail
how the work is planned and ex-
ecuted. One of the most nota-
BILE engineers of the Reclamation
Service, Mr.. Edmund T. Perkins,
has been elected to supervise the
exhibit. At the time of the
holding of the Trans-Mississippi
Congress and the National Irri-
gational Congress in Portland,
he will, with various assistants,
give personal attention to ex-
planning to the delegates the ex-
hibit and will be prepared to fur
nish additional facts as to the
Reclamation Services and its
plans" F"
The official call for this meet
ing is as follows and explains all
about how many delegates the
various states. counties, cities and
societies are entitled to send as
representatives:
The Thirteenth National Irri-
cation Congress is hereby to be
called to meet in Portland, Ore,
gon, August 21st to oath, inclu-
sive, 1905, convening in the
Auditorium, Lewis and Clark
Exposition Grounds.
All who are interested in de-
veioping the great natural resour-
ces of the country, extending the
habitable area, and increasing
the products OF the land, insur-
ing greater stability and more
prosperous conditions, making oc-
cupancy upon the land more at
tractive, the extension OF the IL
ternal trade and commerce, and
the dissemination of wider
knowledge of the great economic
movement which has for its ulti-
mate object the upbuilding of an
empire within the borders of a
great nation, are invited to attend
this Congress
The organization of the Con
gress is as follows:
The permanent officers of the
Congress, including the Chair.
man of the Sections.
Members of the United States
Senate and House of Representa-
tives.
Governors of States and Terri
tories.
ambassadors, Ministers anc
other representatives of foreigs
nations and colonies.
! Members OF State and Terri
torial Irrigation Commissions
! and State Commissioners of Ae
riculture and Horticulture.
/ Fifteen delegates to be appoint
ed by the Governor of each Stat,
and Territory.
Ten delegates to be appointed
by the Mayor of each city O
more than 25,o population.
! Five delegates to be appointe'
by the Mayor of each city of les
than rs, 900 population.
Five delegates to be appointed
by the Chairman of the govern
ing boa1d of each County.
Two delegates, each duly &C
credited by the Chamber of Com
merce, Board of Trade, CONNER
cial Club or other Commercial
body.
Two delegates, each duly ac
credited by any organized irriga
ton, agricultural or horticultur
al society.
Two delegates, each duly &C
credited by any regularly organ
lied Society of Engineers.
Two delegates, each duly &C
credited by any agricultural col
lege or college or university hav
ing chair of hydraulic engineer
ing, forestry or other subject re
lating to the general purpose Q
the congress.
It is respectfully suggested tha
in the appointment of delegates
! persons should be selected VIII
are sincerely interested in an
. purpose attending the Congress
and that appointments be mad
as early as possible.
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