Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-30
IRRIGATION MEETING
BIGG;Si;s:1 BIG;;i:s;:';: IN HISTORY
Delegates From Every State and Territory and
Foreign Countries viii be Present. Reclamation
Of Swamp Lands in South Important Topic

CHICAGO, Nov. 29-The fact that
the nineteenth National Irrigation
congress to be held here Dec. 3 to 9
will give prominent place in its prog
ress to the subject of reclamation of
swamp lands will result in large at
tendance by southern and eastern
delegates.
The irrigation congress in NE TWEEN
ty years of its existence has never
been held further east than Lincoln,
Neb., except when it met in Chicago
in 1900. With large attendance of
eastern and southern delegates at the
Chicago meeting there might be a
movement to take the next congress
into the south OF east. There is no
city might secure the next conven-
ton if all the southern and eastern
delegates unite in favor of that city
and the western delegates divide their
forces between five or six western
cities desiring the next congress. Also
there is no doubt but if the next con-
gress is held in the south the subject
of reclamation through drainage will
be the most prominent topic.
Among eastern and southern cities
considered as hosts for the congress
in the event it should go east or south
are Washington, d. c., New York
City, Rochester, Charleston, New Or
leans and st. Louis.
Among western cities prominently
mentioned for future meetings of the
congress are San Francisco, Los An
geies, Portland, Seattle, Missoula, St.
Paul, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Denver,
and Phoenix.
1t is freely predicted that the con
gress at Chicago will be the greatest
in the history of the organization, and
the committee in charge thereof has
been working energetically to prepare
program that will be in fitting with
the meeting Four or five thousand
delegates are expected from every
state and territory and from at least
seventeen foreign countries.
The congress will open Tuesday
morning, Dec. 5, at the Auditorium
theater, and the address of welcome
will be delivered by Governor Charles
S. Deneen of Illinois, while Mayor
Carter H. Harrison will extend the
freedom of the city to the delegates.
r. lnsinger of Spokane will call the
congress to order; r. R. Mccormick
of Chicago, chairman of the board of
control, will welcome the congress on
behalf of his colleagues; President B.
A. Fowler of Phoenix will respond to
the addresses Of welcome; the exec
utive committee will report and the
various committees will be named.
Tuesday afternoon at Orchestra
hall-where the afternoon sessions
will be held-there will be a strong
session. Walter l.. Fisher, secretary
of the interior, is invited to discuss
the conditions and needs of the recla-
nation service; former Governor Geo.
C. Pardee of California, will tell of
the achievements of the National Ir-
rigation congress; Director F. H.
Newell will outline the constructive
work of the reclamation service; r.
f. Teele, in charge of the United
States irrigation statistics bureau of
the census, will talk on the magnitude
of irrigation interests; Senator VIM.
f. Borah of Idaho, is expected to
tell of state irrigation, and Major
Richard W. Young of Utah, of private
irrigation.