The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-07-21
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Organization.
Two delegates duly accredited by
each chamber of commerce, board OF
trade, immigration society or com
mercial club.
Two delegates duly accredited by
each regularly organized irrigation,
agricultural, horticultural or forestry
club, association or society in the
United States.
Two delegates duly accredited by
each irrigation company.
Two delegates duly accredited by
each agricultural college, and by each
college or university having chairs
of hydraulic engineering or forestry
| in the United States.
Two delegates duly accredited by
| each regularly organized society OF
engineers in the United States.
Make Appointments Early.
be made as early as possible, and no
tice of appointment with full name
and postofice- addresses forwarded
to the Chairman or Secretary of the
Board of Control, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, U. S. A.
All foreign governments, notably
Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Mexico,
Cuba and the South American Repub-
lies, have been invited to send repre-
sentatives to the Congress and make
exhibits at the Exposition.
Another notable feature of the Con-
gress will be the report of a commit
tee named at the 18th Congress, held
at Sacramento in 1907, relative to
the desirability of organizing an inter-
national congress, having a broader
and more comprehensive scope and
covering all matters touching the con-
servation and use of national re-
sources of all the countries of the
globe.
rhe people of New Mexico and the
Duke City Albuquerque are erect
ing magnificent convention hall for
the accommodation of the Congress.
This structure will cost upwards of
/
pleted and will seat three thousand
five hundred delegates. 1t is built OF
cement, brick and steel and is very
handsome building.
Albuquerque and New Mexico will
be the scene in September and Octo-
Der of the greatest irrigation celebra-
tion and demonstration in the history
of the Southwest.
The purpose is to emphasize the
Importance and value of irrigation
as a factor in National development
and to make an object lesson with ex-
hibits of the resources, agricultural,
horticultural live stock and minerals
of the great West.
This will extend over a period OF
two weeks and will include the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress, the Inter
national Industrial Exposition and
the 2Sth Annual New Mexico Terri
torial Fair. There will also be recep-
tions, excursions and other entertain
ments in various portions of the Ter
ritory to which all of the delegates
will be invited. The musical part of
the program during the Congress
will be On a higher and more artistic
plane than any ever attempted in the
history Of the country.
The electrical illumination of the
city of Albuquerque, the decorative
arches commemorative of this great
event, the participation by the Ma
tional Government in the exhibits
w, all will be on a par with the great
iexpositions of the country heretofore
held.
The live stock show will be unsur
passed by anything in that line ever
held west of Chicago or Kansas City.
| Preparations will be made for the
comfort and entertainment of thous
ands of visitors.
The most impressive ceremonies
will mark the opening and closing OF
the Congress and Exposition.
Entertainment.
The people of New Mexico are en-
thusiastic in the promotion of this
great enterprise, this campaign o-
publicity, and in their efforts to pro
vide for the pleasure and comfort o
delegates and visitors will leave moth
ing undone that energetic manage
Iment can foresee. Everything will be
ldone for the general welfare of the
people who honor us with their pres
lence.
will have an added interest to man.
lbecause 1T will be held on the bank
of the historic Rio Grande, where owe
three hundred and fifty years ag,