The Ordway new era., 1909-08-20

SELECT PUEBLO
NEXT MEETING OF THE CON
0REss TO BE HELD IN PITTS
BURG OF COLORADO.
ASKS 100000 FUND
COMMEND PlNcHoTT AND NEW
ELL IN FORESTRY AND RE.
clAMATioN EUREAu.

Spokane. Wash.-Thc selection of
pueblo. Colo. AS the next meeting
place. the passage OF resolutions com
mcnding both the efforts Of Pin'h
and Newell In the forestry and r"clh-
nation bureaus. asking a slp.uOu.ooO
irrigation fund frIm Congress ana
commencing the Mississippi deep Wa
tDrways, the seventeenth national lr-
rlgarion congress came to practical
adjournment Friday afternoon.
An annual appropriation OF SlO.OVV'
uuo for a period Of five years to aid
IN the irrigation work is asked OF
Congress In resolutions adopted by
the National irrigation Congress to-
day. This Is perhaps the most Impor'
taut recommendation in tn" "csolu-
tons adopted, Of which the following
is synopsis:
..That homcsteadcTs under gov
ernmcnt project shall not he required
to establish residence before tn"
government is prepared to furnish
nm with water.
That the government take meas
urcs to drain swamp lands in aid Of
land reclamation and OF public health.
''rhat the irrigation congress aid
with other conservation organizations
to bring about waterway improve
mcnt. reforesiation and other Ike
pTopeCts.
THAT there be brought about sur
g.F ,.f
submerged lands wherein the work IL
international in character. This re
rcrs TO northern Idaho more spccif.
lcallyJ
THAT the reclamation act be ex.
tended to Hawaii
THAT the state pass laws regulat-
ing cutting OF public and private tim.
Der
THAT there should be no political
lines with reference to the use OF wa.
ter for irrigation.
That the Mississippi deep water,
way be developed"
John |. Martin OF St. Louis. repre-.
seuting W. X. Kavanaugh. president
Of the l.akes-to-thc-Gulf Deep Water
ways Association. urged a bond issue
! in aid Of the deep waterway project
/ His plea for the assistance of the con.
/ gress in obtaining this bond issue was
| greeted with applause. He gave an
| outline Of what is expected as a re.
| suit OF the proposed fourteen foot
main trunk waterway. John T. Mat,
thews was also n speaker on the sub
/ IeCt OF waterways
The afternoon was given over tC
| addresses by governors of the states
/ OF Florida, South Dakota, Idaho
| Washington, Nebraska and Montana
/ Governor Shellenbergcr of Nebraska
| made a stirring appeal for the conser
walton OF resources. which was greet
ed with continued applause He had
| with him considerable delegation OF
/ both men and women.
Governor Gilchrist OF Florida gained
the confidence of the congress by an
! appeal for the abolition of Mason and
DiNon's line and by the designation OF
the South as sleeping giant, now
awake"
Governor Brady of Idaho commend
ed both Secretary Ballinger and Gif
| ford Pinchot and urged that oil b,
| poured on the troubled waters in tn,
interest OF the general western good
Governors Ncsey of South Dakot:
and Norris of Montana thanked tn,
congress for its activities.
Gen. Piet Vilkon, formerly of Kru
gers army in the Transvaal. repre-
sented Governor Curry of New Mex
leo.
All remaining traces of the Ballin
ger-Pinchot hostilities disappeared tn,
last day OF the congress, with perhap!
a mention now and then by som.
kindly-disposed speaker.
Deep waterways for the island EN-
pire was the subject of an address O
Prof. W. d. Lyman. who spoke in tn,
morning.
The following officers, in addi,io,
TO the election of b. A. Fowler O
fhoenix, Ariz., president, and Arthu
hooper, Spokane, secretary, as fore
shadowed by the Associated Pres
several days ago, were elected uuanI
mously:
Vice President-Ralph Twitchel
New Mexico.
Second Vice President r. W
Young. Utah.
Third Vice President. Newman
Montana.
Fourth Vice President-F, w. Fleu
ing. New Mexico.
Firth Vice President-E. ]. Watson
South Carolina.
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