Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-10
TO BRING BETTER
SETTLERS into
GREAT WEST
AIM OF THE NATIONAL
IRRIGATION CONGRESS
Chairman InSinger of Spokane
Explains Objects and Pur-
poses of Organization Which
Meets This Year at Pueblo.

congress- III an huNitSS n |
luncheon in his honor at the Hamilton
club here today, r Insinger Of Spo-
kane, chairman OF the board of gov
cincrs, said that In addition to saving
the forests, storms the floods. re-
claiming the deserts and swamps and
making homes on the land, the organ
ization also aims bringing a better
.rLd more intelligent class of settlers
to the country. with n view to the
utilization of every opportunity OF
ftred by intensive farming to increase
production and decrease the cost of
living. He added among other things:
THE national reclamation act,
adopted by the United states congress
in 1909, Is the outgrowth of years OF
work by this organization to obtain
the enactment OF such a law. This
has given the country twenty-five pro-
jects. representing the reclamation OF
3,19S.00 acres Of land at a cost of
more than $50, 00O, 600, while thirteen
projects held in allegiance until the
completion of the foregoing, VIII add
q, 270,0OO acres more to the crop pro-
ducing area of the United States. This
total of GAGS, 600 acres Will furnish
homes for $500, GEO persons and add
several hundred millions of dollars TO
the taxable property of the various
states.
'The congress. which gained such
widespread recognition at the Spo-
kane convention. last summer, VIII
have its eighteenth sessions at Pueblo,
colo. September 20 To so, under the
presidency of II. A. Fowler Of Phoenix,
Ariz.. who has been actively idcnufied
with the organization for years. 1t Is
promised there will be several thou-
sand delegates, including practical
agrlculturists ana irrigationists, from
all parts Of the United states, Canaua
and Mexico, also from thirty 10 lortS
foreign representatives. ana diplomat
lists. heads OF national and state de-
n~artments. capitalists ana engineers.
s"Thore will also he an exposition OF
anparatus for raising and putting
water on the land and representative
exhibits of products Of irrigated traelS,
thus bringing together in the heafl ol
the Arkansas valley the most compfe-
hensive demonstration OF the Nalae OF
irrigation in the history OF the move
ment. Colorado has a larger acreage
under bitches than any of the western
stares. and. as practically every APP
Drcved method of distributing water
Is in use in that state, there VIII pc
OPPORTUNITIES to study the various
plans of supplying moisture by aFu-
fetal means to the land.
an the states from the missouri
river to the Pacific ocean thefe are
fully 1000. 900 acres under
or to be watered in the near tutuie'
NIlcwing an average Of twenty acres
to a family and rive persons 70 y nno
ilV. his acreage viii support 'OV,VuV
ncrsons. To this number might pc
added 10000 more, representing tnu
number of persons needed 70 supp
The wants of these tillcrs OF inc soi'
and to transport their products mr.
p~ationists claim that an average Oh
ten acres to the family Is high
but. to be conservative an aFcreEe
Of twenty Is used. ON that OASIS
these 10000 0 acres would furhisii
n living, directly or indirectly TO az
least 1900. 900 people.
"planted to wheat, producing an
average OF thirty bushels an acre
this irrigated area would Slelu 'V'c
ooo 00O bnshels or 1900, 600 tons OF
hay. If planted to alfalfa, Mhllc II ~
APPLES. as grown in the 'onmm
states. the yield would be 3o'Voo'Vvp
tons. This enormous tonnage WounV
cali for more railroads. from ny ~
ldakes To the Pacific coast, millions o,
doilars, worth of new equipment ana
me employment of hundreds OF tnou-
ca nds of skilled mechanics ana lhpoI
crs In mills ana factories all over inc
oorutrv. IT would also mean Hlol'
business for the banker II hleI-
chant. tu;ou ALL
cone hundred and fifty million uoi,
lars has been invested IN ~rlg"tlo
canals in sixteen ARID states Wy
r{turies and q harvest valued at $EDV'-
mn nan is the former deserts re-
snonse annually to the Intelligent az,
nIication of water to the sun scorcheu
~yal1evs The possibilities of reclalla-
tion and its bearing on inc iu,ui
welfare of the nation can be pSltSi
realized when We consider that iunS
100000 acres of aria or seIil-"i ~
land can lie reclaimed by irflsatioh ~
addition TO the acreage nov mI's
and approximatcly 75,OO0,O OV acres
81 ewamp land by drainage.
! 10. 600. 900 and II, 600, 600 persons are
NOW engaged In agriculture III thS
trnited states, and practically al! OF
Inc arabic land in the humid REGIONS
A. embraced I'm the 100000 farms
Under cultivation. The average size
of these farms is LAG acres mr.
France is 1t country OF only 80
O54 square miles anu nus " ne
Inn nf nearlv o 1000, 600, yet 1t IS lhe
honper nation of the world and sup
norts lis people comfortably ~.
~ man empire has 20S,O 0O SQUARE
,nilcs and "a population of wv
Nnst ria -tInnuary has 2G1,0OO squarv
miles and "a population Of 4f,OVV,vvV
washington, oregon, ldaho anu ~ nd
tnna have 396,700 square mlles airu
moi more thHn 3,0000.OO0 population,
How many happy and prospetou
men women and children VIII thosv
eour Great commemorative suppoil
when careful and intelligent use Il
made of their matchloss resources
under irrigation the teilueios -
"a GREATLY restrict tho size Of the laln.
~ Expcricnce teaches that IN mos,
ir,igoted districts it Is impractieap,'
rnr n farmer to cultivate q large nolu
tnr AS a consequence the aVcIue.
farm under ditch is much sinaile'
,han In tbs humid regions. Thus plo-
,is,on is made for a larger aflhihs
nnnuiation. with a corresponding ~
rreage In the production OF farm pr.u-
,,,ts thereby adding immensely Z" W
| corntrv's wealth. Irrigation II w.
most practicable insurance agaihs'
rrop failure. and II relieves the farm
ing industry from the element Oh
chance. nt.,.
"%Irrigatiou invariably means l'''n'
civ, cultivation aud this la turn mean.
larger crops. Through the use q
smaller tracts. the country disiflc's
have become so thickly populated
thev resemble suburbs OF large cities
but there IS no congestion nor is