Arizona republican., 1909-06-20
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SAN FRANCISCO WANTS
 IRRIGATION CONGRESS
There Are Five Other Competitors for the Location of the Meeting Next Year.

Spokane. Wash, June 17.-(Special ] Correspondence of The Republican.)- San Francisco is the latest bidder for
 the National Irrigation Congress in 1910, with five other active candi- dates in the field, as follows: Pu- eblo, Colo, Chicago. St. Louis, 1 Charleston, S. C.. and Rochester, N. Y. These cities will send repre-
 sentative delegations to the seven- teenth session in Spokane. August 1 to IA, when a lively battle is eX- pected as each is backed by an in ! fluential commercial club and has large following among the delegates. Pressure is being brought to bear upon George Eames Barstow of Texas, president, and other officers of the
 national associations; also R. lnsinger, | chairman. and members of the local l board of control. to take the eight eenth session 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 irriga- | ton to the country than any half dozen similar gatherings in the West, | where the science is known and prac- |
 ! ticed
 | Mir Insinger has added these speak, CTS to the general program: Rufus P. Jennings. chairman of the Cali | fornia promotion committee, The 1 United Pacific States" United States
 Senator w. B. Hepburn of Idaho, | "The General Purposes of the Irri gation Congress-" Professor w. D. ! Lyman of Whitman College. Walla
 Walla, Wash. Deep Waterways for | the Inland Empire:" Clarence T. Johnson, state engineer of Wyoming,
 Some Fundamental Principles of the
 Irrigation Law" Dr. Enoch A. Bryan, l president Washington State College. Pullman. The Irrigation Situation in ] Washington" Also John H. Lewis, state engineer of Oregon: Samuel H. Lea. state engineer of South Da- kota: Professor O. L. Waller, Wash ington State College.
 There will also be addresses by
 James J. Hill. chairman of the board
 of directors of the Great Northern Railway company; Clifford Pinchot.
 chief of the United States forest
 service: United States Senator Cum
 mins of Iowa: Governor Wilson of
 Kentucky; Howard Elliott, president
 of the Northern Pacific Railway con-
 Dany; Frederick H. Newell, director
 of the United States Reclamation service; United States Senator Jones of Washington: Governor Spry of
 Utah: Governor Benson of Oregon;
 Governor Brady of Idaho; Governor
 Hay of Washington; Governor Norris of Montana: John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of Amer
 ican Republics: United States Senator Perkins of California, and N w. Har- rs of Chicago
 President Barstow will be in Spo- kane in few days, when we shall go over the preliminary program and other matters said MT. Insinger, and it is likely that the names of several prominent men will be added. We also expect acceptaDces from a number of experts on deep water ways, drainage, good roads and home making
 Frank C. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank of New York: | NJ. Q. Leighton. chief of the hydro 1 graphic survey; Albert J. Earling. | president of the Chicago, Milwaukee | X St. Paul Railway company; E. H. | Hartman. president of the Union Pa cific Railway company. and other no- table men will also have places on the program. MT. Hartman has as- sured us he will come if he can ar | range his affairs for that time.
 Probably there is as much inter- l est 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 Cali i fcrnia, Utah. Nevada, Arizona, Texas. l New Mexico, the Dakotas Colorado. | Wyoming. Kansas. Nebraska and | other states where irrigation is prac- ticed; also the hearty cooperation of the eastern. middle western and southern states, where the people are intensely interested in forestry. good roads, drainage. deep waterways and home building"