Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-16
IRRIGATION Congress Will Bring
|iGLAD I|D|NGS TO LANDLESS and
Homeless OF This entire nation

CHICAGO, Ill.,, Oct. 16.-To thu
landless and homeless the Nationa
Irrigation congress will bring glaG
tidings OF opportunity for lands an6
! homes on the millions of acres re
by western irrigation and swamp
drainage. So states the official cal
for the nineteenth session at Chicago
December to next, which has been
issued over the signatures of B. A
Fowler, Phoenix Ariz., president;
Arthur Hooker, Chicago ILL.,, secre
tary; R. Insinger, 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 agri-
cultural and industrial development
agency should at this time hold a
great meeting in Chicago, one of the
worlds most important industrial
and commercial centers. The lands
available for private settlement, long
thought unlimited. are practically ex
hausted, so that continued extension
OF settlement must depend on the
reclamation of land by control of the
water supply; and Chicago is the
clearing house for the western coun.
try involved in the new era of land
development.
The peculiar fitness of Chicago for
this meeting inspired the invitation
and actuated strong board of con-
troll who have undertaken to make
the nineteenth meeting of the Ma
tiOnal Irrigation 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
productivity.
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
motto, 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
president of the United States, the
vice president of the United States,
the members of the cabiet, members
OF the United States senate and house
OF representatives, governors of
states, territories and insular pos
sessions of the United States mem.
bers of the federal, state, territorial
and insular irrigation, water and con-
servation commissions, state enei-
neers and commissioners of agricul-
ture and horticulture, the mayor of
each city or town having a popula-
ton of over 1000, chairmen of gen.
eral and special committees. all per-
manent delegates of the congress-
Delegates will be appointed under
the provisions of the constitution as
follows: Fifteen delegates appointed
by the governor of each state and
territory; ten delegates appointed by
the mayor of each city of the United
States of more than $4,000 popula.
ton; five delegates appointed by the
mayor OF each city in the United
States of less than $4,000 and over
1000; 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 of each in
corporated town having a population
OF less than 1000; two delegates duly
accredited by each regularly organized
society devoted to irrigation agri.
culture, horticulture and engineering;
two delegates regularly accredited
rom each callege and university; 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
tne organization of state delegations.
Notices of appointment giving full
name. post office address and occu.
patton of the National Irrigation con-
gress at Chicago.
While the policy of the congress
is shaped at each session by the state
delegations the continuity of the or.
ganlzatlon and the efficiency of it's
work are influenced largely by the
permanent delegates provided for by
Article VI, Section 2 of the constitu-
ton; and members interested in the
permanency of the congress are earn
estly invited to become permanent
delegates
All foreign governments have been
invited to send representatives to
the congress. The hearty responses
from foreign governments at previous
congresses have made the foreign
representation an important feature
of the organization. The increasing
interest promises large representation
this year.