The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-21
MEETING OF NATIONAL
IRRIGATION CONGRESS
.Oueen City of the Lakes" Will En-
terrain Distinguished Number
of Prominent Men.

chicago, III, Aplll li.i VI an
che elements that combine to make
an irrigation or drainage project
eomplete-enginee money, settlers,
machinery, the necessaries OF life;
practically everything in fact aside
from the land and the water-there
,s no other source of supply in the
United States which can compare
With Chicago.
Chicago, centrally located is logic
ally the distributing center for every
thing pertaining to irrigation and
farm land development in three di-
sections at least, and with its inan-
etal and various other facilities. the
city is naturally the great clearing
house for all the enormous interests
involved, north, west and south, and
east to no small extent.
With these facts apparent at first
glance to the most ordinary observ-
CT. it is generally conceded that the
Queen City Of the Lakes-with two
and one-half millions of people of
ner own and with ten times as many
caore within the scope Of ten-hour
tourney on railways of such i'm
eortance as nation center that the
National Irrigation congress is es-
SecsaIly fortunate to be her guest
this year. That the nineteenth ses-
sion of the congress, which are to
be held here In December, will con-
STsrrte The greatest gathering of the
Etnd ever witnessed in this country
as 10 unfounded boast based merely
ia preliminary enthusiasm.
he congress already has been
made z part OF throbbing Chicago
ss.asrsa o. the interest shown in the
work s9E the Chicago board of control
Of sao=,e 10 100 OF The city's foremost
srEintsE and professional men, and
sgls co1g-asE year will necessarily be
Big III exact proportion to Chicago's
customary Il WIZ manner of ac-
s-Frn1aA r7ent- OF great Importance
" tas1s ssor ess iuE- at this time and
ea taGs correction is the fact that
Fra-k3sa MacVeagh, Chicagoan, sec
rstarY 81 the United States treasury
E1d & member of President Taft's
esasnss. has accepted an appointment
30 membership in the Chicago board
of control. Mr.. MacVeagh's son,
Eames MacVeagh, to whom the Mac
veagh business interests in Chicago
we're transferred at the time the
presidents hand reached into Chi
cago and led the founder of the vast
Macveagh holdings to the nations
capital, also has shown an interest
tn the work of the congress. He,
too, Is member of the board Of
control and also is identified with
che Chicago Irrigation association.
Right now. Chicago.s advantages
for farm land development through
cut the entire country are at their
best. In 1909 and during a part
Of 1910 the atmosphere in the mid
de western portion Of the country
was surcharged with land excite
nent. Hundreds Of thousands of In
luiries for information concerning
farm opportunities In this state or
that were directed to the railways,
- banks and land concerns, to news
papsr offices and to the government.
Statfstics compiled later indicated
ebst . large percentage of these In
aNireFs were more curious than de-
termaped. This excitement has now
died out almost completely and the
rpIe now II. II II reported generai.
", thas when An inquiry appears It
usually comes from man Of means
E,hpss request for information is
followed In most csses by an actual
purchase M : farm home.
Railway immigration men In Chi
cago are jHbiiaHt over the situation
and express themselves generally as
81 the oninion that the coming few.
gears will mark the greatest agrin