The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-08-07
IRRIGATION
CONGRESS
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will he no advances in rates. and in
addition he has offers from $50 mem
bers of the organization who will
each entertain from one to four dele
gates at heir homes. Fifteen hun
dred high school students will also
be at the disposal of the delegates as
secretaries.
Advance guards of the cities bid
ding for the 18th sessions are al
ready in Spokane and indications are
there will be lively six-cornered fight
Getween Pueblo, San Francisco, Chi
caso. st. Louis, Rocheat.r, n. Y,
and Charleston, S. c. The last nam
ed nave the support of the entire
southern delegation. while Colorado
counts upon the western states. San
Francisco has hopes of landing the
solid vote of the Pacific states and
"a s%prinkling from the east, while
Chicago. ST. Louis and Rochester are
making gum-shoe campaigns.
Il. Insinger chairman of the board
of control, will open the sessions at
10 O'Clock the morning of August 8.
by introducing President Barstow. af-
ter which the Spokane Choral Socie-
ty $50 voices, under the direction of
Karl Riedelsberger, will sing the IT.
rigation Ode. Governor Hay and
Mayor Pratt will then deliver brief
addresses of welcome, the responses
being by Mr.. Barstow and others.
Following the reading of a message
from President Taft, the various com
mittees will he appointed and the ex-
.ecutive committee viii make its re-
port. Among the speakers on the af-
%ternoon program are the following:
DIR. George C. Pardee. Oakland. for
mer governor of California; F. H..
Newell director United States recla-
nation service; Joseph NJ. Carey,
Cheyenne, Wyo., author of Carey act
DR.. F.. A. Bryon, president Washing
ton State college; General Ben j.
Viljoen, La Mesa, y. NJ. There will
be a public reception at Masonic tenn
pie in Tho evening.
August 10. morning-Gifford Pin
chot. United States forester; r. f..
Campbell. forestry department, Cana
da: George s. Long, Tacoma; F. w.
MuIkey and f. T. Allen, Portland.
Ore: y. Kau.nanns. imperial German
Sgricultural attache.
AFTERNOON:-John Barrett. di
rector of international bureau of
South American republics; Or. w.
j. MCGEE, Washington, ID. c.: j. n.
Teal. Joint Conservation Committee.
Portland, Ore: Alex Mcpherson,
Boise. Idaho: n. w. Harris, Chicago.
Evening-Sasnuel Hill, president of
the Washington State Good Roads as
sociation. and Samuel Lancaster,
highway expert, Seattle.
August IL. norning.-United States
Senator francis G. Newlands, Neva-
da: Howard Elliott. president North
ern Pacific Railroad company; Liber-
ty Hyde Bailey. director New York
state college of agriculture; d. c..
Henry, consulting engineer United
States. reclamation service; Freder-
ick H. Griswold. Chicago; Congress
man Miles Poindexter, Washington.
Afternoon-Richard A. Ballinger, sec
Rotary of the interior; F. r.. Gooding.
former governor of Idaho; Clarence
Johnson, state engineer of Wyoming; |
Samuel H. Lea. state engineer of S.
Dakota; John II. Lewis, state engi-
neer of Oregon; Ralph s. Hosmer,
chairman Territorial Conservation
Commission Of Hawaii: A. c. Camp
bell, United States department of
Justice. |
August II. Morning.-Alva Adams. |
governor of Colorado; A.. c.
True, director Office of expeEiment
Professor Samuel Fortier, |
chief of irrigation investigations
Professor 0. l.. Waller irrigation ex-
pert. Washington State College;
Mrs. Emmons, Oak Bluffs, Mass.
state vice president Wonan's Nation |