The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
SEVENTEEN STATES
TO SEND MEN HERE.
Gigantic irrigation 0rganiza-
ton Will Be Formed in
Commercial Club, April 4.
DR.. E. D. BALL AT THE HEAD
COLLEGE PROFESSOR PRIME
MOVER IN UNDERTAKING.

Delegates from the seventeen irrigated
states of the Union viii assemble at the
Commercial club, April 4, to form a per-
manent organization to be known as the
United Exposition Association of Irrigated
States. Governor William Spry today will
name the two delegates from Utah. Pro-
fessOr +. ID. Ball of the experiment sta
ton at the Agricultural college at LO-
gan is temporary vice president for ttah
and win be in Salt Lake today or to-
morrow 10 arrange details for the con-
ventiOn
The convention will be of vital impor-
tance 10 irrigated lands and their pro-
ducts in seventeen states and when the
organization becomes permanent the bene-
fit 10 the industry of irrigation cannot
be estimated. The movement is the nut
growth Of the land show held at the
Coliseum at Chicago last November. Rep
resentatiVes OF fourteen states that lead
in irrigation met following the show,
and formed a temporary organization.
Fourteen vice presidents were named TO
plan preliminary work and arrange for
permanent convention. the appointment
of delegates and the outlining of con-
structive work
Need Wide Exploitation.
The men Interested in irrigated lands
felt that the industry needed, not only
wider exploitation. but centraliza ton of
effort and uniformity of thought and ac-
ton. The land show at Chicago had
been conducted by a Chicago paper TO
the exclusion of other newspapers and
press associations, the result being that,
while the land show was fully adver-
tised in one paper 1t was not heralded
over the country, as the exhibitors had
wished
The temporary formation of the asso-
citation, then, was to accomplish on a
broader scale what the land show at Chi
cagO had failed to accomplish. The per-
manent organization will push the value
of irrigated lands and their products, and
those at the helm of the movement be
lieve that their efforts will rebound TO
vast credit of an industry that is one
OF the most important in the entire west.
While there will be no exhibition OF
products al the Salt Lake convention.
later conventions will be combined with
shows of products Of irrigated lands from
seventeen states and prizes Will be award
ed by states and commercial bodies.
Or. Ball at Head.
In Utah, the arrangements have been
carried on by DIR. E ID. Ball. head of the
experiment station al Logan. Dr.. BAH
has asked Governor Spry TO name TWO
delegates from this state. The appoint
ment by the Governor is regarded as
proper. inasmuch as the state appropll-
ated money for the Utah exhibit at the
land show. In ldahO's case, the delegates
will be named by the Commercial club.
other state have various ways or nalil-
ing their quota of two delegates.
While the convention VIII bring To-
gether only 81 men from half as many
states these delegates viii represent a
vast industry and will form the nucleus
of an organization that Will ultimately
rank in influence and power with the
National Irrigation congress, although the
function of the new organization VIII De
entirely different.