The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-08-03
MANY DELEGATES
Will ATTEND
Especial to the Silver state.)


SPOKANE. Wash, Aug 3.-Five
thousand accredited delegates from all
parts of the United States, in addition
to large foreign representation, will
attend the nineteenth annual sessions
of the National Irrigation congress in
Chicago, December to g. according to
R. Insinger, manager of the North
western & Pacific Hypotheek bank,
who has just returned from a tour of
the middle western states and Chi
cago, where he presided at several
meetings of the national board of gov
ernors, of which he is chairman. He
added:
"Chicago offers exceptional oppor-
tunities for western delegates and 9TH
ers to meet people who do not seem
to realize that irrigation today is an
established mode of agriculture and
that it is being practiced successfully
and proftably in many states west of
the Missouri river. To put it mildly
if is up to the communities of the
western country to send large delega-
tions to the congress.
Among the candidates for the
1912 sessions probably will be At
lantic City, Rochester, N. Y, Buffalo,
st. Paul and Los Angeles. The south
ern states also are manifesting deep
interest in the convention, as they ex-
pect to make a strong bid for con-
vention in the south, to take place in
January, 1913.
''The delegates will be well taken
care of during their stay in Chicago.
This pleasant duty is in the hands of
committee of representative business
and professional men, headed by
Frank E. Scott, president of the Frank
f. Scott Transfer company.
"'The committee on entertainment,
of which John G. Shaffer, president of
the Chicago Evening Post company, is
chairman, has been active and the ar
rangements for entertaining are, as
result, upon large scale Besides the
many places of interest in Chicago
there will be a season of grand opera
before, during and after the sessions.
The worlds foremost artists will be
in the east.
"tThe committee on foreign repre-
sentation, of which DR.. w. A. Evans,
formerly health commissioner of Chi
cago, is the chairman, is giving every
assistance to Dr. f. Mcqueen Gray of
Albuquerque, N. NJ, and it is expect
ed that many of the nations of the
world will be represented by dele
gates from abroad. Western Canada
also will send a representative delega-
tion to the congress.
'sI had several meetings with Harry
A. Wheeler, president of the Chicago
of Commerce, which is
conceded to be the largest and most
important organization of its kind in
the world. and / am more than graft
fed with the interest its officers and
members are taking in the coming
congress.
uThe convention committee of the
Chicago Association of Commerce is
doing splendid work under the direc-
tion of its vice chairman, Mr.. Relss.
The congress will have placed at its
disposal such auditoriums as Orches-
ira hall, for general meetings; Hub
bard hall, in the Fine Arts museum,
for illustrated lectures an irrigation,
drainage and kindred subjects, and the
Auditorium theater for the meeting,
at which President Taft will address
the delegates.
"The program at the several ses-
sions will include the names of some
of the foremost speakers in various
parts of the world and they will dis
cuss in practical way the best means
of reclaiming lands. The National
Irrigation congress is interested in
the problems presented all over the
American continent. It is interested
in drainage saving the forests, stor-
ing the floods, reclaiming the deserts
and making homes on the land, and,
as an organization composed of men
of foresight and unselfsh purpose, it
will continue to exert its Influence
for the greatest good to the largest