The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-06

Special to The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida. Sept. 5.-The fourteenth
National Irrigation congress IS drawing
to close The final session will be
held Thursday morning. 1t will be
strictly a business session, devoted to
the reports of committees, balloting for
the location Of the fifteenth congress,
and the election of officers.
The special train which will then
carry the delegates TO visit the irrigated
parts of the Snake river valley will
leave Boise Thursday evening. The
part of the trip west from Nampa to
Weiser and intermediate points has been
abandoned. owing to the limited time
that can be devoted to the trip. The
train will make night run from Nam
pa to Minidoka, arriving at the dam
at Miner at clock Friday morning,
where a stop Will be made to inspect
the dam and the intake of the great
canal. Then the trip TO Twin Falls
City will be resumed, most of the day
being spent there. drives being taken
to Shoshone falls and Bluo lakes. Fri
day morning will find the party some
where in the vicinity of Idaho Falls
and the day will be spent in the upper
Snake river valley, the train going as
far north as St. Anthony. The train
will return 10 Pocatello Friday night;
thence back TO Boise.
Busy Morning Session.
The morning session of the congress
was called TO order at 9:45, by Vice
President Shurtliff, who introduced as
the first speaker, William K. McAllis-
ter. general agent of the Southern Pa
citic railroad at Denver. He said enough
money had been spent on the lower
Mississippi river In endeavors TO control
the great floods, to impound all the
flood waters of It's western tributaries,
and thus irrigste all the arid portions OF
the great eastern slope of the Rocky
mountains. Then, in discussing the
peopling Of redeemed arid wastes, he
lauded the Mormon system of colonial
tion, by which the valleys Of Utah and
adjacent States had been largely peo-
pied, and favored an organized State
or National system of obtaining good
from Europe.
When he un9olded this plan he very
soon discovered that he had stirred up
a hornets nest, liz q moment, Col.
John P. Irish, California immigration
agent, Mr.. Mock of the Northern Pa
cific and others were after him, all as
serting that there were good citizens
of the United States ready to occupy
farms that can be cited by reclamation;
that they were more desirable than peo
pie from foreign shores, and that the
latter were already coming fast enough
without urging. Agent Mock stated
that $4,000 settlers had been settled
this year in the States west of Mime
sofa traversed by the Northern Pacific,
and that they were nearly all American
citizens Hero John Minto of Salem,
Or, 81 years old and well known pro-
ducer, came TO the stage and told how
he came from England in SO, as good
an American citizen then as he is now,
and crossed the plains through this val
lev to Oregon. siXtystwo years ago. He
believed that the pauper and vicious
classes of all foreign countries should
be excluded. Mr. Minto has a son who
is postmaster of Portland.
Col. John P Irish said Mr.. Mimic s
story well illustrated the difference in
the character of the immigration sixty
years ago and that seeking to come in
now.
Defends the Administration.
Congressman W. A. Reeder of the
Third Kansas district made q strong
address, touching the three subjects OF
the forest service, progress in irriga-
ton and rural education.
Referring to the forest question he
said that he was going TO say. now
what he wanted TO say last night. and
he then announced his full and unquali-
fed support of the forest policy of the
He wanted the people