Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-02
Cav. Mcdonald of Colorado Sends
w. R. Given Here to Ascer-
tain Sentiment.
FOR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
Interview With Gov. ]. C. Cutler
This Morning the Beginning OF
A Campaign to This End.
niay Rival Associations Among sheep
And Cattlemen and Irrigation
Farmers In America.

TO bring the arid farming interests
of Utah into national organization
which II is hoped will rival the asso-
Citations among sheep men. cattle men,
and irrigation farmers, Is the object
of the visit to this city of delegate
from Jesse F. Mcdonald, governor OF
Colorado.
Warren r. Given, who comes from
Gov. Mcdonald with the message III
behalf of the newest line of indus
trial organization, is an Ola news.
paper man, secretary of the Denver
Press club, and formerly assistant city
editor of the Denver Republican.
When seen this morning at the knuts-
ford hotel Mr.. Given said that the
feeling was general in Colorado that
arid farming had gone on long enough
In a haphazard manner. and that IL
was time TO make it the subject of
concerted scientific investigation IN
which the results in each section VIII
be made known to eXperimentators IN
other sections The specific object OF
his visit is to confer with GOV. John
C. Cutler on the subject of choosing
q Utah delegation to the convention
on arid farming, called to meet at
Denver, Jan. "a and %.
CONFERENCE WITH GOVERNOR.
MT Given ntlu a ColltItilSt WIN
the governor at IL o'clock today, and
a number of names were suggested,
beginning with that of DR.. John A.
Widtsoe, who is recognized as the
leading arid farm authority of the
state. Others suggested were Director
Yoder of the Agricultural college,
Bishop Farrell of Smithfleld, who Is
the pioneer Utah dry farmer, j. w.
Paxman, who has large dry farm
at Nephi. Another conference was
arranged for tomorrow morning at
which the matter VIII be gone over
in more detail
After today's visit to the governor
Mr.. Given said Gov. Cutler had given
the movement most encouraging and
enthusiastic support He recognized
its immediate value TO the state as 1t
has nearly 100000 acres of state land,
the value of which will he greatly in
creased with the advent of scientific
farming. Mr.. Given said that the
states most interested in the project
would naturally be Colorado. where
the Campbell system is now in vogue,
Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah Wyom-
ing, Montana, and in fact all the west
ern states. He wants especially to
have submitted there the results of
Utah experiment stations, so that the
information gathered from them may
be spread broadcast in the form of re-
Pun Va IfOSituaiibo lol tIC NOilNtii-
ton.
ONLY a STARTER.
This coming cc. .tion," declared
Mr.. Given, is only a starter. A move
ment will be commenced for annual
conventions. such as are now held by
the Transmississippi congress, and in
few years l think the arid farming
congresses will rival the Transmssis-
sppi congress in Importance. In Colo
RADIO we are particularly fortunate in
having Senator Guggenhelm for the
states national representative. We
who know Mr.. Guggenheim, who has
already been decided on for Congress
at party caucus. know that he loves
the west and we look for him to do
more for 1t in Washington than any
western senator has yet done. While
he is Independently wealthy, he goes
not to represent wealth. but the west
ern people He will resign from every
big business he Is connected with, and
declares he Will give his entire time for
The next - months to the preparation
of legislation to benefit the west. Sem
ater Guggenheim Is back to the arid
farm congress. and as he probably
knows the west better than any of the
men who have made fortunes out of 1t.
he is In position to do much good for
IT,"
Mr.. Given will probably spend &
week or more in Utah looking into arid
matters.