The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-27

Chicago H., Oct. 2O-To the land
less and homeless the National Irri-
cation Congress will bring glad tidings
of opportunity for lands and homes on
the millions of acres reclaimed under
the spirit awakened by western irri-
J cation and swamp land drainage So
states the official call for the nine
teenth session at Chicago, December
to 8 next which has been issued over
the signatures of B. A. Fowler, Phoe-
nix, Ariz., president; Arthur Hooker
Chicago, ILL.,, secretary; R. Insinger
! Spokane, Wash, chairman of the exc
cut've committee, and Robert R. Nc
Cormick, Chicago, H., chairman of
the board of control
: 1t is fitting that this great agricul-
tural and industrial development
agency should at this time hold a
4 great meeting in Chicago, one of the
worlds most important industrial and
, commercial centers. The lands avail
able for private settlement, long
. though unlimited, are practically ex-
hausted, so that continued extension
of settlement must depend on the rec
lamation of land by control of the wat
er supply; and Chicago is the clearing
house for the western country involv-
ed in the new era of land develop
, ment
The peculiar fitness of Chicago for
this meeting inspired the invitation
and actuates a strong board of control
who Nave undertaken to make the
, nineteenth meeting of the National Ir-
| rigation CONGRESS- the most successful
in its history.
Here where east and west meet the
| congress will point with pride to that
Iempire-building which made the
| Great American Desert" a country of
J happy homes and of bounteous produc-
i stigity.
i Never more important than now,
when the population of the country
/ is so rapidly increasing. were the OBJ
jeCts of the congress, expressed in its
Wotto, Save the forests, store the
| floods, reclaim the deserts, make homes
| on the land
| ! The personnel of the National Irri-
| cation Congress will be as follows:
The officers of the congress, the presi-
| dent of the United States, the vice
| president of the United States, the
i members of the cabinet, members of
4 the United States senate and house of
| representatives, governors of states
\ territories and insular possessions of
l the United States, members of the fed
4 eral, state, territorial and insular irri
+ sation, water and conservation com
II hissions, state engineers and commits
&oners of agriculture and horticulture
2he mayor of each city or town having
j population Of over one thousand
Il chairmen of general and special com
a tnittees. all permanent delegates OF
re congress.
l. Delegates will be appointed under
tthe provisions of the constitution as
follows: Fifteen delegates appointed
by the governor of each state or terri
tory; ten delegates appointed by the
,tnayor of each city of the United States
of more than twenty-five thousand pop
Sulation; five delegates appointed by
Che mayor of each city in the United
Estates of less than twenty-five thou
S5and an dover one thousand five dele
tgates appointed by the chairman o.
bach board of county commissioners
.lqr county supervisors in the United
Sates; two delegates appointed by the
'Anay0r from each incorporated towr
a population of less than one
Thousand; two delegates duly accredit
Jed by each regularly organized society
9devoted to irrigation, agriculture, hort
Eculture, and engineering; two dele
yates regularly accredited from eacl
Yollege and university; two delegates
eluly accredited by each chamber O
csnerce, board of trade or CONNER
\ kial club.
5 Appointment of delegates should be
.inade as early as possible to facilitate
the organization of state delegations
Notices of appointment giving full
Aname, post Office address and occupa
flon of each delegate should be for
lvarded to the secretary of the Ma
iGnal Irrigation Congress at Chicago
"a sWhile the policy of the congress il
shaped at each session by the state
ldelegations the continuity of the or
ganiEation and the efficiency of it!
work are influenced largely by the per
laanent delegates provided for by ar
Eice VI section of the constitution
ana members interested in the per
manency Of the congress are earnest
" invited to become permanent dele