Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-23
WANTS COCHlsE REPRESENTED
 IN IRRIGATION
Representative of National Congress to Be Held at A. buquerque Talks Interest ingIy at Douglas.

q am here partly on business but
 largely in the interest of the Sixteenth
 National Irrigation Congress and the
 great Southwestern Industrial Ex-
 position wdich is to be held in Albuqu-
 erpue, N. M September 29th. to Octo-
 Der 4th, this year, and hope to see
 Cochise County, Arizona, go to Albu-
 querqne next fall with a big exhibition
 of minerals and agricultural products
 as well as a large and enthusiastic
 delegation, said Major E. Meyers. a wholesale merchant of Albuquerque, at
 the Gadsden, Douglas yesterday.
 T visited Douglas five years ago. and while have heard. about the great Improvements here and your fine hotel, I never, for a moment imagined that I would find conditions as they are.
 Your hotel is the finest in the west and would be credit to any city in the world. It is a great advertisement
 to Douglas and something everyone should be proud of The residence dis trict Is filled with pretty homes. If were a younger man and looking for a location, would certainly come to Douglas. The opportunities you have as mercantile center are good. Job ping business here ought to be a good proposition.
 "One thing which you need now is the development of your agricultural
 resources. The science of dry farm ing has come to stay and where irriga- ton is not practical, it is proving a great success. Northern and eastern New Mexico is settling up very rapidly. Homeseekers are coming in by the train load and taking up the lands. II looks to me as though your valley here should be good proposition.
 . Now coming back to the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress and the Industrial Exposition. We are going to have the greatest show of its kind ever given any place. In connection with the irrigation congress it is pro posed to hold the industrial exposition and, in as much as the congress is national affair, it is proposed to make the exposition on the same order. IL Is not to advertise New Mexico alone, but Arizona and the entire southwest as well. We will have exhibits from all parts of the world California will have extensive exhibits both in miner als as well as agricultural productA Idaho and Washington are coming with their fine fruit. Every county in New Mexico will make exhibits and it is the wish of the board of control of the congress and exposition tha, every county in Arizona make big ex- hibits. Here in Cochise county you have all kinds of material. The prod ucts of your mines and smelters, aa wep as well as the SoodUyts, Wl1iSH l understand, your ranchme2 ara rroduc ing, will afford you an opportunity to make a fine display
 q am a member of the board of con trol, of which Col W. s. HopeweIl is chairman and Col R. E. Twitchell is secretary, and we will be mighty glad to give your county all the floor space which you desire, and will guarantee to give your visiting delegation the best time they ever had in their lives You will be able to get very low rates and there will be ample accommoda- ton. We have secured the loan Of 10000 tents from the war department at Washington. We expect to have fully 100000 visitors to Albuquerque during the meeting We will have Gov. | Ahumada's fine Mexican band from Guadalajara, Mexico, the marine band, | the twenty-fifth infantry band, besides i dozens of local bands, to furnish the l music, and if Douglas will send over l a train load of your enthusiastic boost l CTS with a band, you will have the l chance of lifetime not only to see a | fine exhibition, but to hear the virtues | of irrigation and dry farming discussed | by the most eminent speakers of the | entire world. We will have at least four members of the presidents. cabi- net who have already promised to at tend: Vice President Fairbanks, Sec retary Taft, Secretary Garfield and Sec retary Wilson. President Rooseven has partly promised to be present if it Is possible for him to come. Besides these, Mir. Frederick H. Newell. di-