The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-25
CHEYENNE MAY
GET THE NEXT
ARID CONGRESS
Believed That Wyoming City
Will Secure Convention of
Dry Farmers.
WILL SELECT PLACE
AT T0DAY'S MEETING
PROVISION is MADE FOR A PER-
MANENT MEMBERSHIP IN
ORGANIZATION.


:. 1t can be stated without fear of y
:. successful contradiction that =
= Cheyenne will secure the next =
:. meeting of the arid land farmers. =
- When the proposition was put up =
= to the Cheyenne people as to :
:. what they would do with the :.
:. crowd, they said they would build =
= hotels and, Furthermore. build an =
:. exposition hall. =
- The Utah and Colorado delega- -
- tons are said to be favorable to :
:. Cheyenne. As Utah has the great =
= er number of delegates in the :.
- congress, any city upon which its =
:. delegation may decide is assured =
= of being successful. =
:. Douglas, Ariz., an aspirant for ::
- hOnors as the next convention =
:. city, last night wired a guarantee =
:. of $1,000 for the entertainment of ::
- the next congress. -
One of the most important steps
taken BIZ the Dry Farming congress,
now in session, is the adoption OF a
resolution providing for an amend
ment to the constitution and a menu
bership fee, both affiliated and life.
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and the life membership costs $40.
There was considerable discussion be-
fore this action was finally taken, a
number of motions being offered. The
differences of opinion were based on
representation in the congresses. This
matter was finally settled by a resolu-
ton prepared by the executive COM
Tf1iffoa and l4Tapiuan11SIU sdODfad which
says that all members shall have the
privileges of delegates.
Resolutions were introduced and
. adopted thanking the people of Salt
Lake City and the Commercial club
and Fisher Harris, the retiring presi-
dent, who has been chosen the execu-
tive secretary of the congress, extend
ing sympathy TO H. w. Campbell Of
Lincoln, Neb., the originator of the
Campbell system and generally con-
coded to be the father of arid land
farming. who is i'll of pneumonia at his
home in Lincoln, urging the promotion
of the work of farmers Institutes
through local, state and national aid;
declaring that the English language
does not contain adjectiVes sufficient 10
express the appreciation of the con-
gress of the entertainment given at
the tabernacle on the previous even
ing. Resolutions were introduced dur
ing the afternoon session changing the
name of the organization from the
Trans-M Missouri Dry Farming congress
10 the more expressive name of Trans
Missouri Arid congress, and urging the
establishment by state action of more
experiment stations. These were re-
ferred to the resolutions committee.
F. c. Bowman of Idaho and S. H.
Lea of South Dakota were selected
chairman and secretary, respectively,
of the executive committee.
The committee on resolutions, to
which have been referred all letters
and kilograms bearing on the matter,
viii report today the choice of place Of
meeting. There are three candidates
in the field-Cheyenne, Wyo., Idaho
Falls, Ida, and Douglas, Ariz. During
the course of the day a number of tel
egrams were read faVOring this or that
city. The Wyoming delegation is
working industriously to secure the
next congress for Wyoming. The Ida
no delegation, the second largest in
the convention, is boosting for Idaho
Falls The representatives from Ari-
IONA are few in number, but they are
making up for lack of numerical
strength with a reinforcement of tel
egrams quite surprising in their total.
and leaving no doubt as to the enthu-
siasm of the people down there in
their efforts TO get the next meeting.
Change of Constitution.
The resolution amending the consti-
tuition reads as follows:
The governor of each state is to
name ten and not more than twenty
delegates; the mayors of cities and
each board of trustees of any incor-
porated town or city, five and not more
than ten delegates; the county COM
Tnissioners of each county, five and not
more than ten delegates; national and
state agricultural associations, not
more than five delegates each; railroad
companies. not more than four dele
gates each; chambers of commerce,
commercial clubs and other CONNER
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