Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
PROGRAM OF IRRIGATION MEET
ING COMPLETE
FORESTRY WILL BE PROMINENT
TOPIC
Governors, Senators and Representa-
tives Of Many States to Par
ticlpate in the Congress at
Sacramento


pleted So far as set speeches are con-
cernsd there is little left to be planned
Forstry will be given a prominent place
The irrigation congress has long been g
forestry congress because of the close
connection which exists between the pres
ervation of the forests and the use OF
water so conserved for irrigation.
1t is now recognized that there is a COM
munity of interest between irrigation and
drainage, between irrigation and deep
water transportation and between irriga-
ton and all OF the great industries which
afeeo may be developed in the territory
adjacent TO the irrigable lands.
The program will be divided into SEES
eions, each of which Will be devoted In
the main TO the discussion of some par
ticular subject The first days session
Will open at 1880 p. m, and will be de-
voted to actresses of welcome and re-
sponses and to speeches by distip guished
visitors.
The feature of this session will be the
number OF men of prominence who will
be In attendance. Probably never before
on a western program have there been
assembled so many men prominently iden-
titled with the affairs of the nation and
of the respective states. The vice-presi-
dent of the United States will deliver
an address on this day. Governor Cham
berlain of Oregon, president of the ma
tional irrigation congress, will deliver his
address, which will be one OF the great
speeches Of the congress.
= Addresses Of welcome and similar
speeches will be made by Governor James
N. Gillett of California. United States
Senator Perkins of California, Mayor NJ.
r. Beard of Sacramento, DR.. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler. president of the University
of California, and Arthur r. Briggs, pres
ident of the California state board of
trade.
Governors to Attend
Responses to addresses of welcome will
be made by visiting governors. Those
who have up to this time responded favor
ably to invitations TO deliver responses
are Governors Albert e. Mead of WASH
ington, John c. Cutler of Utah, Joseph
IT. Kibbey Of Arizona. Among others
whose presence is confidently expected
and who no doubt will be glad to re-
spond are Governor John Sparks of Ne
lvada Governor Gooding of Idaho, Gov
ernor Toole of Montana, Governor Bech-
tel of Colorado. Governor Hoch of Kan
sas and Governor r. b. Glenn of North
Carolina.
The second day of the session will be
conservation day and will be devoted
to discussion along very broad lines of
subjects relating to the conservation of
natural resources. and especially to gov
eminent action, national and state, de-
signed to accomplish such conservation
and development.
One of the principal addresses of this
day will be by United States Senator
Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, who will
speak of the work of the inland water
ways commission. This commission was
lately appointed by President Roosevelt
to work out and report to him plan for
correlating and extending the work of the
national government with reference to
the navigable streams of the country.
It's appointment is considered one of the
most important acts of President Roose-
velt's administration. Il being regarded as
a step in the direction of much greater
governmental activity on behalf of the
waterways and watersheds of the
country
Clifford Pinchot United States forester,
and one of the presidents closest personal
friends, will deliver an address on con-
servation of resources. DR.. W. J. MCGEE,
also a member of the inland waterways
commission, will deliver an address on
conservation of soil resources. Prof. ].
III. Holmes, of the department of the in
terror will talk on conservation of min
eral resources M. o. Leighton, chief hy-
drographer Of the department of the
interior, will talk on conservation of
water resources,
Pardee on Program
Dr. H. Foster Balm, director of the
geological survey of Illinois, will talk of
state conservation effort. Former Gov
erner George c. Pardee of California,
who was twice president of the irriga-
ton congress, will deliver an address upon
the forest reserve policy OF the national
government
Other days of the session will be de-
voted to forestry practical irrigation and
practical irrigated agriculture, to settie-
ment and other related questions.
The forestry session will be uncom-
monty interesting and valuable. The work
OF the United States forest service will be
presented by A. F. Potter, chief inspector
of grazing, and by Charles H. Shinn,
supervisor of the Sierra reserve of Cali
fornia. "State Forest Laws and Admins
tration' will be discussed by F. William
Rane, state forester of Massachusetts.
Addresses on the proposed Appalachian
and White mountain forest reserve will
be delivered by Governor r. B. Glenn of
North Carolina and Congressman Frank
D. Currier of New Hampshire.
e. A. Sterling, formerly Of the United
States forest service, now chief forester
of the Pennsylvania Railway company,
will tell Of the forestry work now being
carried on by that corporation in the
mountain districts Of the eastern states.
Francis Cuttla of Riverside will tell Of
the reforestatioll work now in progress IN
Southern California under the direction of
the water supply of that territory.
A feature of the forestry session will be
the participation therein by r. H. Camp
bell of Ottawa. Ont, who is In charge Of
the forestry branch of the dominion of
Canada. Campbell is now en- route to
California for the purpose of delivering
an address before the convention upon
the work of his government,
Lecture Illustrated
F. II. Newell, director of the United
States reclamation service will deliver
an evening lecture, illustrated by stereop-
tican views on the work of the reclama-
tion service. This will be one of the most
interesting of the sessions. for Newell
win tell of the greatest engineering work
ever undertaken by any government in
the world and will show in picture how
this work is being carried on.
Morris Bien, head of the legal depart
ment OF the reclamation service, will
speak at the same time on the subject of
the Community Idea IN the Reclamation
Act"
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah will de-
liver an address of Irrigation by Private