Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-09-06

About 200 people lett here SUNDAY
afternoon for Boise to attend the
Irrigation congress, including the
band, of twenty odd pieces; all
wearing badges and touting for this
town. Fifty or more have gone
since. Some returned Monday,
tired of the crowd; others Tues
day, and the majority Of them last
evening; though some still remain,
including most of the delegates.
Returning visitors report that
Boise is entertaining the biggest
crowd that ever congregated in the
state capital. Rooms were secured
without much difficulty, but to get
anything to eat was a matter that
resolved into the principle of the
survival of the fittest, and in this
case the weaker gave way to the
stronger; while the barber shops had
not finished Tuesday evening with
the Saturday night crowd.
All unite in the verdict that the
delegation from here made good;
that our exhibit of irrigation pro-
ducts, though small, compared
with some, are as good as the best
and attracted much attention. Our
band was a big part of the show,
being given the position OF honor
in the Fairbanks celebration, at the
head of the procession. The Cap
ital News of Tuesday, said:
Mountain Home is here in
force. over 200 visitors having
come in from there yesterday
morning. They brought with them
the Mountain Home cornet band OF
thirty pieces, one of the bset in the
state. The band has been furnish
ing high class music to the delight
of the public. Last evening the
band played at the Idanha, having
been stationed in the balcony, and
the street below was crowded for
half a block The band escorted
Vice President Fairbanks to the
grounds yesterday and they played
several pieces on the stage.
A number of interesting and in
structive papers on irrigation have
been read. The most entertaining
incident of the meeting, however,
was the tilt between our own dip
lomatic Senator Hepburn and Pin
chott, chief of the governments
forestry department. The latter
had delivered an address on his
favorite hobby, to which the Sen
ator replied, attacking the speak
er. President Roosevelt and the
government policy on forest re-
serves bitterly, amidst the Kisses
of his hearers.
Much interest is taken in the Sc
lection of the place for holding the
next congress. Jamestown, Vir-
ginia, wants it during its two-or-
three centennial celebration. WASH
ington, D. c. and half dozen other
towns are mentioned. On this
subject the Capital News says:
''Las Vegas is here with strong
delegation for the purpose OF asking
permission to entertain the next
session in the metropolis OF that
prosperous irrigated territory.
Ralph E. Twitchell, general solicit
tor of the Santa Fe railroad, is
chairman of the delegation, and
will present the claims of his city
for the honor. 1t is not generally
known, but Las Vegas is the place
at which the idea of national ir-
rigation congress was first sug-
gested A meeting was held in
1889 for the purpose of educating
the people on the subject of irriga-
ton. and an .old-fashioned sprink-
ling pot was the emblem of the or
ganization. Irrigation was prac-
ticed in New Mexico at the time
Coronado first visited the native
population in the sixteenth cen
tury. Tue people are class that
will spend all their money to enter
tain a stranger, and the hospitality
that will be dispensed should the
Fifteenth congress be awarded to
Las Vegas will be of the kind that
the delegates will never forget.
Reno, Nevada, will also pre-
sent strong claims for the congress
so will Boezman, Montana; Sacra-
mento is anxious to show what the
land of sunshine and flowers can dc