Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24

be the participation therein OF Hon. r
| III. Campbell of Ottawa, Canada, who
Is In charge OF the forestry branch OF
tho Dominion of Canada. Mr.. Camp
hell is now en- route to Californi9 toi
the purpose of delivering an address
before the convention upon the work
of this government
NEWELL WILL TALK.
Hon. +. II. Newell. director OF the U.
! S. Reclamation service. will deliver n
| lecture, illustrated by stereopticon
| views, on the work of the reclamation
service This VIII be one of the most
isteresting OF the sessions, for Mr..
Newell Will tell of the greatest engin-
government In the world. and VIII
show In picture how this work Is be-
ing carried on. Hon Morris Bien, mead
of the legal department of the u. :,
reclamation service, will speak mt the
same time on the subject OF the COM
munity idea in the reclamation act
SENATOR sMooT OF UTAH.
U. S. Senator Reed Smoot OF Utah
will deliver an address on irrigation
by Private Enterprise" There Viii
also be an address on Irrlga ion IN
der the Carey Act" and one ON the
al irrigation methods will be discuss
ed by DR.. Elwood Mead. chief of irri-
agtion and drainage Investigations. y.
S. department of agriculture and Prof.
Samuel Forter Irrigation engineer,
University of California.
The work of the department OF agi-
culture will be represented Ivy Hpu.
Willet NJ. Hayes ass st;lnt secretary of
the department, DR. a. G. True, direc
az
Albert r. Woods. assistant chief bu-
reau OF plant industry.
AUTHOR OF CAREY ACT,
Among the most important discus
sions will be that on the legal ques-
lions involved in the reclamation ana
settlement Of the arid lands. The
feature OF this discussion will be an
address by ex-senator j. NJ. Carey of
Cheyenne, Wyo,, author of the Carry
act and leading authority on the sab
iect of the land laws of the country,
Mr. l.. l. bennett. attorney for the
Turlock irrigation district OF Modesto.
California, will tell of the workings of
the California district law, known ioc-
ally as the Wright act and as the
Bridgeford act
WATER IN ARIZONA.
The Water Users association will
be discussed by Hon. Joseph H. Kib-
hey, governor of Arizona. Gov. Kib-
hey has been. since its organization,
the attorney for the Salt River valley
Water Users association. This vas
the first organization under the nation
al reclamation act, and it has met
and solved, 1t is believed, all of the
problems which confront the Water
Users association, which seeks to CO.
operate with the reclamation service
under the provisions OF the national
reclamation act. Gov. Kibbey is the
leading authority in this country on
the subject which he will discuss and
his address viii be one of the most
valuabel of the program.
TALKS BY RAILROAD MEN.
Settlement problems win he dis
cussed by William X. McAllister. agent
Southern Pacific company, Denver.
Colo; by C. NJ Mott, general immi-
grafton agent of the Northern Pacific
company Of St. Paul, Minnesota, and
by NJ. j Costello. general Industrial
agent OF the Great Northern railway
of St. Paul. Minnesota, These gem
tlemen have had many years expert
ence in the settlement of western
lands and they are leading authorities
on the question OF how to bring to-
gether ''the landless man and the
CoNGR ESSMEN TO TAKE PART.
The Congress of the United States
will be represented in the irrigation
convention by many members, all of
whom are expected to participate ac-
lively In the proceedings The senate
win be represented by Vice President
Fairbanks. the presiding officer, by
Senator Levi Ankeny of Washington,
E,.uf, Nnul1n6S NaVlnn
Smoot OF Utah. George C. Perkins and
Frank 2. Flint of California and prob
ably Charles Dick of Ohio, John H.
Bankhead Of Alabama and Joseph NJ.
Dixon of Montana. Among the mem
bers of the house OF representatives
who will be in attendance are Con-
gresham +. G. Goudy of Colorado, A.
] Gronna of North Dakota, James NJ.
Miller of Kansas. Charles n. Pray Of
Montana and George Bartlett of Ne
vada.
POPULAR SHORT SPEECHES.
A feature Of the program that will
lend itself TO the great majority of the
delegates will be the large proportion
of the time that will be devoted to
volunteer discussion. Fully half of the
sessions will be taken up with three
and five minute talks and open dis
cpssion on the floor of the congress.
The program. as above outlined, is
declared by the congress management
to be the broadcast in scope and the
greatest in its possibilities for good
that has ever been arranged for any
convention in this country When
Secy GARFIELD was in Sacramento a
short time ago, the members of his
party who visited the irrigation con-
gress headquarters and learned of the
plans for the program We're enthusi-
astic over it.
WHY SHE SANG THE HYMN.