Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20
IRRIGATION WAS king All
SPOKANE LAST WEEK.
Large Number of Delegates Present
From All Parts of the world-Pueblo
Col, Has Honor of Entertaining Next
Years Congress-Two Spokane Man
Honored in List of Officers.

shown to the people last week
by the seventeenth National Irr;.
cation congress, held in Spokana
Wash. Better crops mean more pros,
porous times, better trade, and lrr;ga.
ton secures better crops. The meetings
Of the congress have been held in tSo
Armory, and over 5000 accredited del.
egates, from all over the United States
and a few from abroad, were in at.
tendance.
One of the features of the conoress
was the three big parades. The first
parade on Tuesday was an illustration
of the development of the northwest
showing the Indians, cowboys, pros,
pectors, Lewis and Clark, etc. The sec
ond parade, Wednesday night, was the
Progress parade, showing the march
of civilization, and the Improvement
of methods of living. On Thursday
afternoon occurred the irrigation army
and industrial parede. On Friday the
mining men formed and gave UNIQUE
parade.
The North Yakima city school and
Boise High School bands marched in
the parades and rendered excellent
music. They gave several concerts.
The deliberations of the congress
were somewhat disturbed by the fact
that there were two factions or inter.
ests present, the corporation, or "mon.
eyed" interests, and the conservation
interests. The conservation of the for
ests is the only thing which will make
irrigation permanent, and as lumber
men are vitality interested upon this
point, many of the delegates were lum-
bermen, opposed to the conservation
plan.
Among the representatives of foreign
countries, sent to learn about irriga
ton in the United States were, Don
Alberto Alibaud from Santiago, Chile;
H. Uyeno, from Japan, NJ. Eugene
Skorniakotf, from Russia. Newspaper
representatives are here from Chicago.
Garden City, Kansas, Ell Paso, Texas,
and Atchison, Kansas.
Monday Session.
Over 1000 delegates were in the hall
when the meeting was called to order
at 10000 a. m. by R. Insinger, chair
man. The morning was taken up with
addresses of welcome. F. H. Newell,
director of the United States reclama-
tlon service, spoke in the afternoon on
The National Irrigation Situation, ="
which precipitated a lively discussion
on the merits of the irrigation and land
laws of the United States.
President E. A. Bryan of the Wash
lngton State college delivered an ad-
dress on 1.-THE Irrigation Situation in
the State of Washington, deploring
the lack of suitable irrigation laws, and
scoring the legislature for this lack
washington, he says, needs a state en-
gineer, and proper laws concerning
water rights.
Sledge, Tatum gave an address on
reclamation of swamp and overlooked
lana, telling of the country's loss
through undrained swamp lands.
T. l.. Watson made a plea for CO.
operation of the different states for
the conservation of the country's re.
sources. He stated that there were
1mI,ooO,O0O acres of wet land in the
united States, and damage by floods in
south Carolina, due to deforestation,
exceeded y,1 100000 in 1903 alone. Mr..
watson Is state commissioner of agri-
culture and commerce of South Caro-
lima.
Messages from President Taft and
SENATOR Borah were read, expressing
t0srets that they were unable to attend.
IN the evening a reception was ten
Se5ed by the board of control to all
u'iegates in the Masonic temple.
Tuesday Session.
, Gitford Pinchot, U. S. forester, was
inc me hrst speaker on Forestry" day.
ne gave an address entitled, "Home-
!. guildlng for the Race" He embodied
sue conservation policy of the country,
t sIu was cheered repeatedly by the en-
ssn a audience of delegates. He
SSecisred that President Taft is just as
~ nly pledged to the conservation pol |
ny as Roosevelt was. He spoke of the |
.a Van as against the corporation, and |
S baiu that he believed the people would |
AS ~ successful in their fight to preserve
'nelr resources.
n E. Campbell, of the forestry de-
FFn ont in Canada, spoke on "The
~ ' H of Canada and Their Relation
" the the Water Supply"
ON ling .. Long, lumberman, spoke
IT, The Attitude of the Lumberman
awards awards Forestry" He declared that
Soy Soy would fight every inch of the con-
sStS 'atlon movement unless their inter
W were properly respected.
W., D. MCGEE, secretary of the Inland
GWteIWays commission, spoke ON
pa %ster as the Basis of National Pros
iSaa.y and backed up Mr.. Pinchot s
NJ IN every particular.
r.th papers read were conciliatory
Ter ref than belligerent, but the issues
ssa; s very clear-the lumbermen were
fSr l !. conservation, the irrigation men
t,aaattiorestation and conservation was
dist.;eaai from both sides, E. T. Allen,
ana y forester of the United States,
Wis.,, M. Griffith, state forester of
ton V s, representing the conserva-
Com, action, George s. Long of Ia
Ore and F. W. Mulkey of Portland,
sbat SSe1ending the lumbermen from
'uey termed unjust criticism.
Wednesday Session.
e, sSe chief interest of the day CEN
hrv1 a. ABOUT Richard A. Ballinger, secre-
IN !" the interiors address entitled,
Towa,,A attitude of the Administration
and the Reclamation of the West"
bis very heated discussion followed
Georssaai ok He was assailed by DR..
y Pardee, former governor of L