Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-12
NATIONAL IRRIGATION
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will be turned over to the governors
of our own states. And through the
entire program will run the endeavor
to find out those policies which con-
sistently carried out will be produc-
tive of the greatest good to the great
est number of American citizens.
The opening session of the Eigh-
teenth National Irrigation Congress
will be Monday afternoon, September
26. R. Insinger of Spokane, chairx an
of the executive committee, will call
the congress to order and introduce
P. J. Dugan, chairman of the Colorado
board of control. The invocation and
special music will follow, after which
the meeting will be given into the
hands of the president of the congress,
B. A. Fowler, of Phoenix, Arizona.
John F. Srafroth, governor of Col
orado, will welcome the visitors and
delegates to the state. A. L. Fugard,
mayor of Pueblo will extend a vel
come to Pueblo, and President Fowler
will respond on behalf Of the National
Irrigation Congress. If time permits,
other addresses will follow, includ-
ing one by former Governor Alva
Adams of Pueblo. The report of the
executive committee and committee
announcements will conclude the open
ing session.
On the evening of the opening day
the board of control will entertain
visitors, delegates and friends at an
informal reception, where the strang-
ers will be made to feel at home and
friends can renew old acquaintances.
Worthy of consideration at the
morning session, September q, is
public irrigation, which in the form of
reclamation service comes in the de-
partment of the secretary of the in
terror. Besides representatives of the
department of the interior and the re.
clamation service, there will address
the congress men who have been
prominent in the development of pub
lie irrigation, such as Senator Francis
G. Newlanls of Nevada; j. M. Carey,
former senator from Wyoming; Sen
ator William E. Borah, from Idaho,
as we'll as others who will add in
terest to this session.
Tuesday, September q, there will
be an evening session, at which will
be present William e. Smythe, the
father of the irrigation congress, who
will speak on 1.-THE New Gospel: A
Little Land, a Little Living" An IL
Illustrated lecture will also add interest
for this evening.
1t is planned to devote Wednesday
largely to drainage, irrigation agricul-
ture and industrial conditions. lnvi-
tations have been addressed to such
we'll known speakers as James J. Hill,
chairman of the board OF directors OF
the Great Northern. railway; Judge r.
S. Lovett, president of the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific Railway
companies; Edward P. Ripley, presi-
dent of the Santa Fe system, and the
chief forester of the United States
forest service. The southern and cen
trail states will be represented by men
competent to speak with authority on
drainage and other topics of timely
interest.
Representatives of western state
will speak on the problems presented
to the beginner in irrigation.
Wednesday evening, September 2S'
will be free from meetings OF the
congress, but an extensive and elao'
crate Illuminated parade and the Ma
tional Irrigation exposition will turn-
ish plenty of entertainment.
Questions most intimately connect
ed with water and it's uses Will De
taken up Thursday morning. Inc
Mississippi valley will be represented
by speakers such as w. K. kava1agn,
president of the Lakes-to-the'Guii
Deep Waterway association, who viii
treat of some phases of the relation
of the use of water for irrigation ana
navigation. Former governors ana
senators of western states and enin
ent engineers will cooperate to make
this one of the instructive sessions OF
the meeting. -,
Some form of general policies viii
OCCUPY Thursday afternoon, when II Is
hoped to have present members OF the !.