The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-16
IRRIGATION IS
WANTED EAST
CHICAGO SEEKS The CONGRESS-
Several Cities Are Seeking for the
Next Gathering and 1t is Likely
Sharp Contest VIII Ensue.

SPOKANE, Wash, June 15.-San
National Irrigation congress in 1910,
with five other active candidates in
the field. as follows: Pueblo, Colo,
Chicago, st. Louis, Charleston. S. c.,
and Rochester, N. Y. These cities
will send representative delegations
to the 18th sessions in Spokane, Au-
gust to IA, when 4 lively battle is
expected. as each is backed by an in
fluential commercial club and has a
large following among the delegates.
Pressure is being brought to bear
upon George Games Barstow of Tex
as, president, and other officers of the
national association, also r. Insinger,
chairman, and members of the local
board of control, to take the 18th ses-
sions east of the Missouri river. The
chief argument advanced is that one
congress in the east would do more
to impress upon the people there the
real value of irrigation to the country
than any half dozen similar gather
ings in the west, where the science is
known and practiced.
Speakers Added to Program.
Mr.. Insinger has added these
speakers to the general program: Ru-
fus p. Jennings, chairman of the Cali
fornia Promotion committee, 1.-THE
United Pacific States; United States
Senator w. 5. Hepburn of Idaho,
THE General Purposes of the Irriga-
II
man of Whitman College, Walla
Walla, Wash, Deep Waterways for
Inland Empire; Claranco T. John
son, state engineer of Wyoming,
Some Fundamental Principles of the
Irrigation Law; DR.. Enoch A. Bryan,
president Washington State G 'llege,
Pullman, 'The Irrigation Situation in
Washington" also John H. Lewis,
state engineer of Oregon; Samuel H.
Lea, state engineer of South Dakota;
Professor o. l.. Waller, Washington
State College.
Names of the Speakers.
There will also be addresses by
James j. HILL chairman of the board
of directors of the Great Northern
halfway COMPANY, oihoiu iiiShot,
chief of the United States forest SER
vice; United States Senator Cummins
of Iowa; Governor Wilson of Ken
lucky, Howard Elliott, president of
the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany; Frederick H. Newell, director
of the United States Reclamation Ser
vice; United States Senator Jones of
II; 20,
Governor Benson of Oregon, Cover
nor Brady f Idaho, Governor Hay Of
Washington, Governor Norris of Mon
tana, John Barrett, director of the
International Bureau of American re-
publics; United States Senator Per-
kins of California and n. w. Harris
of Chicago.
president Barstow will be in Spo-
kane in a few days, when we shall go
over the preliminary program and
other Matters" said Mr.. Insinger,
land it is likely that the names IF
several prominent mep will be added.
We also expect acceptances from a
number of experts on deep water
ways, drainage, good roads and home
making.
Hartman on the Program.
Frank c. Vanderip, president Of
the National City bank of New York;
M. o. Leighton, chief of the hydro
graphic survey; Albert J. Earring,
president of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway company; E. H.
Hartman, president of the Union Pa
cific, j. S. Dennis, chief of irrigation
for the Canadian Pacific Railway
company, and other notable men will
also have places on the program Mr.
Hartman has assured us he will come
if he can arrange his affairs for that
time.
probably there is as much interest
in the coming congress in many parts
of the Northwest in general and the
Inland Empire in particular as there
is support for it's success right here
in Spokane. Then, too, we have many
booster friends in California, Utah,
Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico,
Kansas, Nebraska and other states
where irrigation is practised, also
the hearty cooperation of the eastern.
middlewestern and southern states,
where the people are intensely inter-
ested in forestry, good roads, drain
age, deep waterways and home
building"
Bill had won her-pretty maid,