Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-24
NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS
Will Have Exhibits of Arkansas Val.
lev Products and Scenery.


ley Products and Scenery.
A meeting of the Rocky Ford Board of
Trade was held on Wednesday afternoon
for the purpose of taking action relative
to the proposition Of having an exhibit
from this section Of the Arkansas Valley
at the national irrigation congress which
will be held in Albuquerque. N. M. in
September.
R. E. Wilson, industrial commissioner
for the Santa Fe railroad, appeared be-
fore the meeting and stated that the
Santa Fe would have a building at the
congress in which they wished to have a
comprehensive exhibit showing what had
been accomplished in this section through
irrigation. He told Of the immense ben
efits that would be derived by the placing
of an exhibit before such congress.
where thousands Of delegates would be
assembled, not only from every state in
the Union but from Mexico. South Amer
lea, the Philippine islands. Hawaii. Aus
traiia. France and Germany.
The project was enthusiastically taken
up by those present at the meeting and
on motion a committee consisting of n.
/ W. Lance, S. W. Cressy. L. X. Fenlason.
c. M. Hall and G. W. Swink was ap-
pointed to procure views of irrigation
projects. headgates. farms. orchards.
ranges, etc., and also to sec that the best
Of the exhibits at the coming Arkansas
Valley Fair be taien to Albuquerque and
placed on exhibition before the congress.
The Sixteenth National Irrigation
congress will be held in Albuquerque,
n. NJ, Sept. 20 to Oct. 3.
The four great objects OF the con-
rrcss are to Save the forests, store
| the floods. reclaim the deserts and
make homes on the land
All who are interested in the
achievement of these objects or any
OF them. are invited to attend the
congress. and, by participatin- in its
deliberations, contribute to a wise
direction OF national policies and de-
vclopmcnt of practical methods of
conserving and developing the great
natural resources OF the country,
: thereby inspiring a greater stability
of prosperous conditions, extending
| the habitable area, increasing the pro-
! ducts of the land and developing in
| tcrnal trade and commerce.
National and state officials, irri-
CATION and forestry experts, engin-
GERS, farmers and irrigators, mann-
4 faeturcrs. professional and busines:
men, industrial workers. editors and
other representatives oil the pres
| will attend the congress.
Concurrcntly with The irrigation
congress and continuing until Oct.
10. there will be held at Albcqucr-
que an International Industrial cS-
position OF irrigated farm products.
together with exhibits OF every other
industry and natural resource OF the
country. The list of cash prizes. tro-
phics and other offerings for compet-
tive exhibitions is the largest ever be-
fore presented at similar exposi-
ton. The exposition OF irrigated farm
products will be superb. over ono
hundred thousand square feet OF ex-
hibition space having been already
reserved.
Albuquerque, the commercial me-
tropolis of the southwest, where the
congress. will be held, is so admir-
ably situated from a transportation
point of view that the delegates
will have great opportunities for Wis
iting the gigantic irrigation projects
of the southwest now being con-
structcd by the national government
under the Reclamation Act, notably
the great Roosevelt dam in the Salt
river valley, Arizona. the Elephant
Butte dam and the Leasburg diver
sion unit of the Rio Grande project,
and the Hondo and Carlsbad projects
| in the far famed Pccos valley OF New
Mexico. Other great irrigation en-
tcrpriscs located in various portions
of the territory of New Mexico. con-
structcd or contemplated under pr'-
vatc enterprise, may be visited: as
special excursion rates will be given
to all delegates by the railway COM
panies. ,
Men prominent in the nation and
particularly in the west will deliver
addresses and read specially prepar-
cd papers upon topics of great inter.
est. These. it is expected will
reflect the public sentiment OF semi
arid America.
The national policy of forest pres
crvation, under which more than 4
hundred million of forest area and
grazing lands of the public domain
have been reserved from sale for the
purpose of preventing denudation and
destruction, insuring their proper use
and conserving the timber and range
resources of the west and the pro-
tecton of the watersheds, is largely
due TO the capitalization of public
thought and sentiment resulting from
the annual discussions and addresses
had and made at the session OF the