The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-08-05
IRRIGATION CONGRESS-.

Everything is in readiness for The
18th sessions of the National Irriga-
ton congress in Spokane, says a Spo-
kane dispatch, August 9 to IA, when
experts will discuss problems OF re-
claiming arid and swamp lands, fores-
try, deep waterways, good roads, home
country's natural resources. George
E. Barstow of Texas, will preside, and
among the 1000 delegates will be rep
resentatives from every state and ter
ritory in the Union and the provinces
in Canada, thirty delegates from Eu-
rope, the southern republics and the
Orient, also several cabinet officers,
officials of the United States forestry
and reclamation service, railroad presi-
dents, bankers, engineers, farmers, or
chardists and truck gardeners.
Various stages of the development
of the Pacific Northwest will be shown
by elaborate floats and other devices
in two parades of progress and a
march in review of the industrial and
irrigation army $1,000 men and thirty
five bands of music, in Riverside aven-
We OF August 10, II and II, when the
electrical illuminatiLns and decorations
will be the most %pretentious ever at
tempted in this part of the west.
There will also be a demonstration
of fourteen methods of supplying mois-
ture to the land by artificial meal
and exhibits of products.
One of the entertainment features
is a public initiation of the delegates
to the congress into the Mysterious
Order of E-Nak-Ops and the installa-
ton of the supreme officers under the
direction of Imperial Kopsane Seabury
Merritt and his staff on the evening
of Friday, August 10. There will also
be a series of receptions, banquets and
excursions to nearby lakes and re-
sorts.
l.. G.. Monroe, secretary of the Spo-
kane chamber of commerce, has re-
ceived voluntary pledges from $50
hotels and restaurants that there will
be 10 advance in rates, and in addi-
ton he has offers from $50 members
of the organization who will each Ell.
terrain from n to four delegates at
their homes. Fifteen hundred high
school children will also be at the dis
posal of the delegates as secretaries.
Advance guards of the cities bidding
for the 18th sessions are already in
Spokane and indications are that there
will be a lively s~ix-cornered fight be.
tween Pueblo, San Francisco, Chicago,
st. Louis. Rochester, n. Y. and Char
lesion, S. c. The last named has the
support of the entire southern deleea.
ton. while Colorado counts upon the
western states. San Francisco has
hopes of landing the solid vote OF the
Pacific states and a sprinkling from
the east, while Chicago, st. Louis and
Rochester are making gum-shoe cam
paigns.
R. Insipger, chairman of the board
of control, will open the session at
ten o'clock on the morning of August
9 by introducing President Barstow,
after which the Spokane choral socie-
ty of $50 voices, under the direction
of Karl Riedelsberger, will sing the
Irrigation Ode. Governor Hay and
Mayor Pratt will then deliver address
es of welcome, the responses being by
Mr.. Barstow and others. Following
the reading of a message from Presi-
dent Taft, the various committees will
be appointed and the executive COM
mittee will make its report. Among
the speakers on the afternoon program
are the following:
DR.. Geo. c. Pardee, Oakland, form
er governor of California; F. H. New
ell, director of United States reclama-
ton service; Joseph M. Carey, Chey-
enne, Wyo., author of the Carey act;
DR.. E. A. Bryan, President Washington
State college; General Ben J. Viljoen,
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