The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-15
RECLAMATION TO Be
DISCUSSED BY BODY
National Irrigation Congress
to Hold Conference in
Chicago, Dec. 50.
National News Association)

Chicago, Ill, Oct. 14.-1O the
landless and homeless the National IT.
rigation congress will bring glad It'd
ings of opportunity for lands and
homes on the millions of acres re-
claimed under the spirit awakened by
western irrigation and swamp land
drainage. So states the official call
for the nineteenth session at Chicago,
Dec. 5 to 9 next, which has been is
sued over the signatures of B. A. Fow-
Ter, Phoenix, AriZ., president; Arthur
Hooker, Chicago, ILL.,, secretary; r. In
singer, Spokane, Wash, chairman of
the executive committee, and Robert
r. Mccormick. Chicago, ILL.,, chairman
of the board of control.
1t is fitting that this great agricul-
tural and development agency should
at this time hold great meeting in
portant industrial and commercial
centers. The lands available for pri-
vate settlement, long thought unlimit-
ed, are practically exhausted, so that
continued extension of settlement
must depend on the reclamation of
land control of the water supply, and
Chicago is the clearing house for the
western country 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 control
, who have undertaken to make the
nineteenth meeting of the National IT.
rigation congress the most successful
in it's 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 objects
of the congress, expressed in it's mot
to, 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
members of the cabinet, members of
the United States senate and house
of representatives governors of states,
members of the federal, state, terri
torial and insular irrigation, water and
conservation commissions, state engi-
neers and commissioners of agricul-
ture, the mayor of each city or town
having population of over one thou
sand, chairmen of general and special
committees, all permanent delegates
Of the congress.
Delegates would be appointed under
the provisions Of the constitution as
follows: Fifteen delegates appointed
by the governor of each state or ter
| ritory; ten delegates appointed by the
| mayor of each city of the United
States of more than twenty-five thou
sand population; five delegates APP
pointed 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 county
commissioners or county supervisors
in the United States; two delegates
appointed by the mayor from each in
| corporated town having a population
of less than one thousand; two dele
gates duly accredited by each regular
ly organized society devoted to irriga-
ton, agriculture, horticulture and en-
gineering: two delegates regularly ac-
credited from each college and uni
versity; two delegates duly accredited
by each chamber of commerce, board
of trade or commercial club.
Appointment of delegates should be
made as early as possible to facilitate
the organization of state delegations.
Notices of appointment giving full
name, postoffice address and occupa-
ton of each delegate should be for
warded to the secretary of the Ma
tional Irrigation congress at Chicago.
| Chicago is the center of vast ter
ritory with millions of people land
hungry" and eager to learn of appor-