Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-16
National Irrigation Con-
gress, of Which B. A.
Fowler is the President,
Points the Way for the
Homeless Ones.
WILL SOON MEET
IN WINDY CITY
Foreign Governments Have
Been Invited to Send
Representatives to Meet
ing and Response Will be
General.

To the landless and homeless the
National Irrigation Congress will
bring glad tidings Of opportunity for
lands and homes on the millions of
acres reclaimed under the spirit
awakened by western irrigation and
swamp land drainage. So states the
official call for the nineteenth session
at Chicago. December to next.
which has been issued over the sigma
lures of B. A Fowler, of this city.
president. Arthur Hooker. Chicago.
H., secretary: r Insinger, Spokane,
Wash chairman of the executive
committee. and Robert r. Mccormick,
Chicago, H.. chairman of the board Of
control
II is fitting that this great agricul
tural and industrial development
agency should at this time hold a
great meeting in Chicago. one of the
worlds most important industrial and
commercial centers. The lands availa-
bic for private settlement, long
thought unlimited, are practically eX-
hausted. so that continued extension
of settlement must depend on the re
clamation of land by control of the
water supply; and Chicago is the
clearing house for the western cOun-
try involved in the new era of land
development.
The peculiar fitness of Chicago for
this meeting inspired the invitation
and actuates a strong board of con-
troll who have undertaken 10 make
the nineteenth meeting Of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress the most
successful in its history.
Here where East and West meet,
the congress will point with pride to
that empire building which made the
Great American Desert" a country Of
happy homes and of bOunteous pro-
ductivity.
Never more important than now.
when the population of the country
is So rapidly increasing. were the OBJ
iects Of the congress. expressed in its
motto, Save the forests. store the
floods. reclaim the deserts. make
homes on the land"
The personnel of the National Irri-
CATION Congress viii be as follows:
The Officers of the congress. the
president of the United States. the
vice president of the United States.
the members the cabinet, members
of the United States senate and house
Of representatives, governor Of states.
territories and insular possessions OF
the United States. members of the
federal. state. territorial and insular
irrigation. water and conservation
commissions. state engineers ana
commissioners of agriculture and hor-
ticulture. the mayor of each city or
town having a population Of over one
thousand. chairman of general and
special committees. all permanent de-
!egates Of the congress.
Delegates will be appointed under
the provisions of the constitution as
follows: Fifteen delegates appointed
bv the governor Of each state or ter
ritorv. ten delegates appointed by the
mayor Of each city of the United
States of more than twenty five
thousand population; five delegates
appointed by the mayor Of each city
in the United States Of less than
. twenty-five thousand and over one
thousand: five delegates appointed by
the chairman of each board of cOun-
tv commissioners or county supervl-
sors in the United States; two dele
gates appointed by the mayor from
/ each Incorporated town having pop
ulation of less than one thousand;
/ two delegates duly accredited by
/ each regularly organized society de-
voted To irrigation. agriculture. horti-
culture. and engineering; two dele
/ gates regularly accredited from each
/ college and university; two delegates
duly accredited by each chamber or
commerce. board of trade or CONNER
Cial club.
/ Appointments of delegates should
! he made as early as possible to taclh-
tate the organization Of state delega-
tions Notices Of appointment giving
{ full name. post office address and oc-
cupation Of each delegate should be
forwarded to the secretary Of the
National Irrigation Congress at Chi
CagO
/ While the policy Of the congress is
shaped at each session by the state
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