Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-21
IRRIGATION Will
Be Main subject
Chicago to Hold Great Con-
gresS For Discussion of
Important Topic.
Especial Bulletin Correspondence. ,

Especial Bulletin correspondence
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 9.-That irri-
CATION and the National Irrigation
Congress have captured Chicago bust
| ness and professional men was evil
denced at the initial monthly Chicago
board of control and Chicago Irriga-
ton Association luncheon, given at
the Hotel La Sale, when one of the
speakers for the occasion, DR.. William
"A. Evans, Chicago's health commits
sioner, suggested in his enthusiasm,
that the congress be made information
al In name as well as in scope. The
luncheon foretold in itself the sue
cess that Is to mark the work of the
congress this year, the guests appear
ing In such numbers that the East
room was crowded to capacity, al
though the board Of control organi-
cation had been made complete scarce
ly week prior to the gathering of
Its members and the other guests.
The diners included fifty Chicagoans
OF prominence, seven consular repre-
sentatives In Chicago and railway
heads from many Of the lines termin-
ating here. The luncheons are to be
given the last Thursday of each
month throughout the remainder of
the year.
Addresses were made by Edmund
T. Perkins, managing director of the
board of control; Arthur Hoker, sec
rotary of the congress; DR.. Evans
and C. J. Blanchard. statistician Of
the United States Reclamation Ser
vice, Washington. ID. G.. Or. Evans,
who frequently has been mentioned as
possible choice for an additional
member of President Tafts cabinet
at the head of a new national depart
| ment-that of a national department
OF health-is the chairman of the
committee on foreign representation
for the board OF control, and he made
1t plain In his talk that his connec-
ton with the congress is to he active
in the broadcast sense of the word.
Great Reclamation Work.
Mr.. Blanchard made the rather
startling statement that the Reclama-
ton Service would, before the efforts
OF Uncle Sam to create homes for
the people were at an end, see the
reclamation of possibly five times the
number of acres already reclaimed
from the western deserts by irriga-
ton, with an additional 10000, 900
acres Of swamplands in the South
drained and their remarkable ferti-
lily put at the command of the hus-
bandman.
THE Chicago meeting of this con-
gress will be the browning event IN
all the twenty years of the organiza-
tons existence Dr. Evans said
The Chicago congress, | can plainly
see now. will make standard for
future gatherings of the organization
to look backward to as the congress
of real accomplishment and to equal
with no little pride. As the Chicago
Worlds Fair gave Chicago world
views and the world Chicago views, so
1t should be with this Irrigation Con-
gress and so II no doubt will be. In
fact, | make the suggestion now that
some concerted movement be launched
which will have the object of making
the Irrigation Congress International
Corn Lands Of Future.
Mr. Blanchard asserted that govern
ment surveys had shown that there
are 3O,000,000 acres of lands avail
able In the arid sections of the west
for irrigation and that the Recama-
ton Service ultimately will have Gre
ated In these deserts homes for 2000,-
600 families. Arid desert lands, re-
claimed, are worth, he declared, pos
sibly three times as much as tn,