The Globe-republican., 1908-10-08
FINISH Their WORK
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL lRRIGA'
TioN CONGRESS AT ALBU-
QUERoUE ADJOURN.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
New Forestry Laws Recommended
other Changes Favored-George
|. Barstow Of Texas
Chosen President.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, Oct. 4.-The
sixteenth national irrigation congress
in this city completed it's work Fri
day with the adoption Oh the report OF
the committee on resolutions and the
election of officers The officers elected
are: President, George |. Barstow, Tex
as; vice president, H. B. Loveland, San
Francisco; second vice president, |. D.
Mcdonnell, San Francisco; secretary,
B. A. Fowler, Arizona; foreign secre-
tary, e. Mcqueen, Gray, New Mexico.
Special papers are to be read at
Saturdays session and the next meet
ing place selected. Spokane will prob
ably be chosen.
The report of the committee on res
olutions was adopted without discus
sion at the morning session. After
long contest before the. committee the
critics of the forestry service were
satisfied with the following:
BE it resolved, That 1t is the sense
of this congress that such legislation
should be adopted In justice to the
forest service and claimants to prop
erty rights within the national forests
as will provide for a review at the in
stance of any party affected by COM
petent tribunal of controversies relat-
ing to homestead entries or forest con-
troll or regulation arising from any
action regulation or ruling of the for
esters officers.
THAT whenever large tracts of land
suitable for agriculture and which are
not naturally forest, and which are
not intended to be made forests and
which are not necessary or proper for
the preservation of the forests or the
water sheds or water supplies for the
purpose to which they have been de-
voted, lie within forest reserve boun-
Diary, such tracts should be restored
to entry as public lands"
The resolutions strongly favors lib
eral grants of the use of public lands
for the development of electric power;
a census of the standing timber in
the United States; reclamation OF
swamp and overflowed land; the gen.
eral conservation of wastewater
through demonstration and other
means; give sweeping Endorsement to
the work of the reclamation service
and the geological survey, urging in
creased appropriations for the support
of these bureaus; urge the speedy
creation of the Southern Appalachian
and White Mountain national forests;
asks congress for an adequate appro
priation for the use of the photographic
division of the geological survey to
determine the effects of grazing and
numbering ON the water supply and on
the erosion of the soil, such investi-
CATION to extend over the watersheds
of the country; favors holding an in
ternational congress on irrigation in
Washington in 1910 and of placing
sugar on the free list. w. R. Hearst
addressed the congress Friday after
noon. He said: my attention has
not been directed to water so much
lately as to oil-Standard Oil-and |
have no letters which refer to irriga-
ton congresses" This was the only
reference to politics, the remainder of
the speech being devoted to irriga-
ton and its benefits.
Z Mr.. Hisgen spoke briefly of the
work of the congress, making no rel
erence to politics.