East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-08
PREPARE FOR
THE CONGRESS
BOISE WILL ROYALTY
ENTERTAIN IRRIGATORS.
Membership of the National Irrigation
Congress VIII BE Composed Of at
Least 1000 Delegatcs-Mayors OF
Small Towns VIII Appoint Five
Delegates, Governors 15--Money is
D.. Now Being Raised for Expense.

The board Of control of the National
irrigation congress has started work
upon the plans for the fourteenth
annual session of the congress- which
Is to be held in this city from Sep
tember to 8, says the Boise States
man. The congress, from all indica-
uons at the present time, is to be one
OF the most successful In the history
OF the organization, nearly IL not
quite 1000 delegates being expected
to be In attendance.
The delegates to the congress will
comprise some of the leading men of
the United States, as well as some
other countries, who are interested in
the reclamation and development of
the arid sections OF the continent as
future homes for the congested popu-
lauon OF the great cities of the east.
There will be practical farmers and
horticulturists, as well as irrigation
experts from far and near represen-
tatives from state agricultural insti-
tutes and experiment stations, state
engineers, government and other not
ed foresters, railway managers, busi-
ness and commercial men in all
branches of industry. and state and
national officers
Membership.
The membership of the congress is
to be composed OF Is delegates ap-
pointed by the governor of each state
and territory. five delegates appointed
by the mayor of every city or town
having population OF $4,000 or less
and 10 delegates for each larger city.
five delegates from every county, two
delegates from every irrigation, agri-
cultural and horticultural society, So
ciety OF engineers and agricultural col
lege, two from each commercial body
also the governor of every state, mem
bers OF the United States senate and
house OF representatives, and all the
commissioners of agriculture or hor-
ticulture.
Work is now in progress on the
preparation OF the official call for the
meeting of the congress- which is ex-
pected to be promulgated within a
short time.
There are four principal purposes
for which the congress was organized,
or more correctly. there are four diff
ferent avenues along which the con-
gress is planned to work to promote
the reclamation OF the west. These
are to save the forests. to store the
floods, to reclaim the desert, and to
provide homes on the land for the
homeless.
What Il Cost at Ogden.
The holding OF the congress on such
l. L.. a
and as II will be necessary to do in
Boise this year. will of course require
considerable sums of money. In Og-
den three years ago the citizens of
that place, then smaller than Boise is
today, raised total Uf over $4,000,
which was spent In gathering a mag
nificent display OF the products of ir-
rigation and the entertainment of the
delegates that they might leave that
city with none but the warmest feel
ings toward the city where the con-
vention was held.
The local managers do not know
what sum was spent at FL Paso in
1904 or at Portland in 1905, but in
neither city is it believed that the
amount was less than that raised at
Ogden.
At the Ogden congress. the display
OF fruits and grains and sugar beets
alone cost the committee having the
matter in charge over $4,000. all the
irrigated states OF The west being COM
petitors for the handsome silver low
ing cup that was offered as prize by
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana, who
was then president of the congress.
and which was awarded in the COM
petition to Idaho.