Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-02
Letter from J. H. McCofck-
lie Of Pueblo, Colo,
Asking for Delegates TO Ma
tionaI irrigation Congress
To Be Held in Pueblo Sept. rs to
80, inclusive.

A letter mas been received by Gov
ernor Fcrnald from j. II. McCorkle of
Pueblo, Colorado, the chairman of the
Board of Control of the 18TH National
Irrigation Congress, asking the SOW
ernor to send delegates to the Con-
gress which Will be held next Septem-
ber No appropriation has been made
for this purpose but the Governor may
appoint some of the former residents
of Maine now residing in Colorado to
represent the state on this occasion.
The letter of Chairman McCorkle to
Governor Ferrald is as follows
"The eighteenth National Irrigation
Congress will meet in the city of Pue-
| bio, Colo, Sept. 26 to 80, inclusive, of
this wear. The Board of Control of the
Congress has been fully organized and
| at work for the past three months. In
all of the previous irrigat i0n congress
es which have been held, the work of
| the Board of Control was never COM
MERGED until after the first of each
! calendar year. You can see, therefore,
| that we are starting out with the de-
termination to make the next National
Irrigation Congress of much greater
| Importance, more comprehensive in its
scope and more instructive to visitors
and delegates, than any that have been
previously held
Il believe 1 can honestly say to you
that the Eighteenth Annual Irrigation
| Congress Will be the greatest national
gathering in industrial Importance that
| will be held in the United States dur
| ing the coming year. 1t will be the
H.. 1854;
| information can be secured from any
| one interested in agricultural pursuits
| as to the most modern and effective
| means of caring for the soil and plant
! ing and harvesting crops
| LAS the executive of your State, you
| are authorized under the Constitution
| of Congress, to name and send Is del
| ogates thereto, and we trust that you
| will look upon this authority as duty
| in connection with the office which you
| fill, and select your delegates with
| great care. selecting men who will be
| able to derive the greatest benefit from
| attending the Congress, and upon re-
turning to your state, to disseminate it
| among your people. We ask you.
! therefore, at your earliest convenience,
| to select your list of delegates and send
is their names, that we may from time
| to time send them such literature as
| we Know will be of interest to your
| section Of the country, and in addition
| thereto, such other topics as would
| make the programme attractive and
| effective and the Congress successful,
| and which would contribute some last
ing results in the public mind and to
| the public good onnpra11V
There will be a Governors day, to
which YOU will later receive a special
invitation.
"The matter of soil chemistry and
| soil conservation are, | am aware, of
| vital Importance to the New England
states. These subjects will receive Sc
| rious and careful consideration at the
| hands Of the Eighteenth National Ir-
| rigation Congress. We consider these
| subjects to be of vast Importance to
| every section of our country, for the
| continued working of the soil must be
| done iudciously and with a proper
| knowledge Of how to perpctuate its VI
| talty. if we would prevent it from be-
| coming barren and unproductve.
| Your section Of the country is in
| terestod in tho forestry problem and in
| conservation generally. The first
| phrase IF the motto Of the National
| congress is Save the Forests" Years
| before the ational forestry movement
| began to grow t. the force and
strength t today possesses in the
| ountry, and before there was nVcn q
small division of forestry in the Dc
| partmcnt of the Interior, the National
| irrigation Congress was a pioneer in
! presenting this problem before the ma
! ton for its consideration.
| Another matter of national impor-
| ance, ana IN which your section of the
| 2oInfry must be greatly Interested, is
| that OF the mourning into a remedy for
| tho increased cost of living. The Ma
tional Irrigation Congress, in pursu-
| lnce of its object of home-seeking and
of raising agriculture. to the highest
possible status is vitality interested in
| this problem