Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-07
IRRIGATION
CONGRESS

Everything is in readiness for the
seventeenth sessions of the National
Irrigation congress in Spokane, August
8 to IA, when experts will discuss prob
lens of retaining arid and swamp
lands, forestry, deep waterways, good
roads, BODYBUILDING and the conser-
walton of the country's natural re-
sources. George E. Barstow of Texas
will preside, and among the 1000 dele
gates will be representatives from
every state and territory in the Union
and the provinces in Canada, 80 dele
gates from Europe, the southern re-
publics and the orient, also several
cabinet officers, officials of the United
States forestry and reclamation ser
vices, railroad presidents, bankers, en-
gineers, farmers, orchardists and truck
gardeners. l9
Various stages of the development of
the Pacific Northwest will be shown by
elaborate floats and other devices in
two parades of progress and a march
in review of the industrial and irriga-
ton army, 10000 men and 35 bands
of music, in Riverside avenue an Au-
gust 10, IL and ~, when the electrical
| Examinations and decorations will be
the most pretentious ever attempted in
this part of the west. There will also
be demonstrations of IA methods of
supplying moisture to the land by ar
tifcial means and exhibits of products.
| T. Lo
kane chamber of commerce, has re-
ceived voluntary pledges from $50 no
tells and restaurants that there will be
no advance in rates, and in addition
he has offers from $50 members of the
organization who will each entertain
from one to four delegates at their
homes. Fifteen hundred high school
students will also be at the disposal
of the delegates as secretaries.
Advance guards of the cities bid
ding for the eighteenth sessions are
already in Spokane, and indications
fight between Pueblo, San Francisco,
Chicago, st. Louis, Rochester, n. Y,
and Charleston, S. G.
r. Insinger, chairman of the board
of control, will open the sessions at
10 o clock the morning of August 9
by introducing President Barstow,
after which the Spokane Choral So
ciety, $50 voices, under the direction
of Karl Riedelsberger, will sing the
Irrigation Ode. Governor Hay and
Mayor Pratt will then deliver brief adj
dresses of welcome, the responses by
Mr.. Barstow and others. Following the
reading of a message from President
Taft the various committees will be
appointed and the executive committee
will make its report. Among the
speakers on the afternoon program are
the following:
DR.. George c. Pardee, Oakland, for
mer governor of California; F. H. New
ell, director United States reclamation
service Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne,
Wyo., author of the Carey act; Dr. E.
A. Bryan, president Washington state
college; General Ben j. Yiljoen, La
Mesa, N. M. There will be a public
reception at Masonic temple in the
evening o
August 10, morning Pinchot,
United States forester; r. E. Campbell,
forestry department., Canada; George
S. Long, Tacoma; f. w. Mulkey and
E. T. Allen, Portland, Ore; N. Kau-
MAINS, imperial German agricultural
attache. Afternoon-John Barrett, di-
rector of international bureau of South
American republics; DR.. w. j. McGee
Washington, d. c.; j. N. Teal, joint
conservation committee, Portland, Ore;
Alex McPhersan, Boise, Idaho; N. w
Harris, Chicago. Evening-Samuel
Hill, president Washington State Good
Roads association, and Samuel Lancas
ter, highway expert, Seattle.
August II, morning States
Senator Francis G. Newlands, Nevada;
Howard Elliott, president Northern
Pacific Railway company; Liberty
Hyde Bailey, director New York state
college of agriculture; d. G. Menny
consulting engineer United States re
clamation service; Frederick Ii. Girls
void, Chicago; Congressman Miles
Poindexter, Washington. Afternoon
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the
interior; +. r. Gooding, former gov
ernor of Idaho; Clarence johnson
state engineer of Wyoming; Samuel H
Lea, state engineer of South Dakota
John II. Lewis, state. engineer of Ore
gon; Ralph S. Hosmer, chairman terri
torial conservation commission of Ha
: wall; A. G. Campbell, United States
department. of Justice.
August IL, morning-Alva Adams
former governor of Colorado; A. G
True, director Office of experiment sta
tions; Professor Samuel Fortier, chief
of irrigation Investigations; Professor
} o. L. Waller, irrigation expert, Wash
ington state college; Mrs. Emmons