Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-13
DRY FARMING IS SUBJECT IF
 INTEREST
Probably Will Effect Southern Arizona, Sonora and Other Parts of This Contiguous Territory.

For the first time in the history of America a general movement has been inaugurated looking toward the rapid development and settlement of the dry land sections of the west. Act ing on the suggestion of many Colo rado business men, Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald. of that state, has called the Trans Missouri Dry Farming con gress" to meet in Denver on the 24th and 25th of htsi month. The call has been sent to every state west of the Missouri river and assurances have already been received that delegates will come, with state sanction, from practically all of the sixteen common wealths included in the call
 The importance of this movement cannot be overestimated Nine acres of farm land out of every ten in the whole country west of the ninety eighth meridian can never be irrigat- ed, and, because of slight rainfall, the most of this territory must look for its redemption entirely to some method of scientific agriculture. Within the last decade the spread of the so-caIIed Campbell system, more commonly known as "dry farming" has con vinced the thinking men of the coun- try that in some such method as this lies the agricultural salvation of the west. and it is now proposed to start a broad, unprejudiced movement, in which every state affected shall take part, to further develop these soil cul- ture systems and bring them to the attention of the world at large.
 It is necessary, also, so it is said, kx- sv,fn fAl hoT some steps be taken to educate the farmers who are today coming into the dry lands of the west. In Colo rado alone 75,000 new homeseekers have settled themselves within a year. Twelve hundred homesteads in Kit Carson county. Colorado, were taken up in 1906, and this record was almost if not quite equalled by other counties in other western states. Of these great bodies of settlers, the larger proportion are from eastern states and are entirely unfamiliar with west ern conditions.
 The purpose of the congress which will meet in Denver this month is, first of all, to form a permanent, edu- cationai, interstate organization some what on the line of the national irri-
 
 a full and free discussion of the prin- copies of scientific soil culture, and of their development iR the west Speak CTS will be present from every state west of the Missouri river. The Unit ed States department of agriculture will be represented. it is hoped, by Secretary Wilson. Every agricultural college in the west will have it's man in attendance. Mead, of Washington, Campbell, of Nebraska, Olin, of Colo -ado, Jardine. of Utah, and 6 score of others of the brightest agricultural minds in the country are on the gro. gram, and few things that refer to dry farming will remain unsaid.
 h order to prevent the gathering of large and unwieldly voting body, Governor Mcdonald has limited the number of official delegates who may attend. Cochise county, however, is en- titled to ten delegates. Copies of the official call, and an urgent invitation to appoint delegates at once, have been sent to the board of supervisors and it is expected that they will act in the matter within the next few days,
 Ip spite of the voting limit, how eyer, it Is desired that every farmer and business man in Arizona who is interested in dry farming and can get away from home should attend, re- gardless of whether he is an official delegate or not. Convention head quarters have been opened at Room5, Albany hotel, Denver, where all yisi- tors to the city will be made welcome and full information given.