The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-07-21
SIXTEENTH NATIONAL
IRRIGATION CONGRESS
To Be Held in Albuquerque. New Mexico. September
29th to October 3rd hCIuSive---A Great Display
of the Resources of the West Will Accompany the
Congress-

To the People of the United States,
Greeting:
The Sixteenth National Irrigation
Congress will be held in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, U. S. A, Septemb ber
29th, to October Bird, inclusive, 1908.
The four great objects of the Con-
gress are to save the forests, store
the floods, reclaim the deserts and
l.ake homes on the land"
All who are interested. in the achiev
ment of these objects or any of them
are invited to attend the congress,
and, by participating in its delibera-
tions, contribute to a wise direction
of national policies and development
of practical methods of conserving
and developing the great natural re-
sources of the country, thereby in
suring a greater stability of prosper
Gus conditions, extending the habita-
BILE area, increasing the products of
the land and developing internal
trade and commerce.
National and state officials, irriga-
ton and forestry experts, engineers,
farmers and irrigators, manufacturers
professional and business men, indus
trial workers, editors and other rep
resentatives of the press will attend
the Congress.
International Industrial Exposition.
Concurrentty with the Irrigation
ToOpress and continuin1 mill October
10th, there will be held at Albuquerque
an International Exposition of Irrigat-
ed Farm and Forest Products, togeth-
er with exhibits of every other indus
try and natural resource of the coun-
try. The list of cash prizes, trophies
and other offerings for competitive
exhibition is the largest ever before
presented at a similar exposition. The
exhibition of irrigated farm products
will be superb. over one hundred
thousand square feet of exhibition
space having been already reserved.
Studies in Irrigation.
The greatest opportunity for the
study of irrigation, irrigation prac-
tices and results, is found in the Ter
ritories of New Mexico and Arizona.
Irrigation Projects.
Albuquerque, Ine commercial me-
tropolis of the Southwest, where the
Congress will be held, is so admira-
bly, situated from a transportation
point of view that the delegates will
have great opportunities for visiting
the gigantic irrigation projects of the
Southwest now being constructed by
the National Government under the
Reclamation Act, notably the great
Roosevelt Dam in the Salt River VAL
ley, Arizona, the Elephant Butte Dam
and the Leasburg Diversion Unit OF
the Rio Grande project, and the Hon
do and Carlsbad projects in the far
famed Pecos Valley of New Mexico
Other great irrigation enterprises 10
Gated in various portions of the Terri
tory of New Mexico, constructed or
contemplated under private enter
prise, may be visited, as special ex
cursion rates will be given to al
delegates by the railroad companies.
Actresses.
Men prominent in the Nation and
particularly In the West will deliver
addresses and read specially prepar
ed papers upon topics of great inter
est. These. 1T is expected. will refiec
the public sentiment of semi-artt
America.
Forestry.
The national policy of forest pres
ervation, under which more than
hundred millions of forest area ant
grazing lands of the public domain
have been reserved from sale for thu
purpose of preventing denudation am
destruction, insuring their proper u.s.
and conserving the timber and rang
resources of the West and the Pre-
lection of the watersheds, is largel
due to the crystalization of publi
Thought and sentiment resulting iron
the annual discussions and addresse
had and made at the sessions OF tn
National Irrigation Congress-.