The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-10-12
DISCUSS PROBLEMS
OF THE |RR|GA7OR
TWENTIETH SESSION OF THE MA
TIoNAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS
HELD IN SALT LAKE.
Questions of Vital Interest to the Far
mers of the Nation Considered by
Delegates From Every Section of
America and Foreign Countries.

Salt Lake City.-The twentieth SEES
sion of the National Irrigation con
gress came to close on Thursday
with the selection of Phoenix, Arizona
as the meeting place next year and
the election of new set of officers.
The officers chosen were: Major
Richard w. Young of Salt Lake, pres
ident; j. B. Case of Abilene, Kans.,
first vice-presiden.; Johu Fairweathe,
of Fresno, Cal, second vice-president;
s. H. Lea of Pierre, S. D., third vice
president; Richard F. Burgess of Ell
Paso, Texas, fourth vice-president;
Kurt Grunwald of Pueblo, Colo, fifth
vice-persident; Arthur Hooker of Spo-
kane, Wash, secretary; executive com
mittee, George A. Snow Of Salt Lake,
chairman; Arthur Hooker. yecretary;
national board of governors. Richard
w. Young, chairman; Arthur Hooker,
secretary; George A. Snow; Douglas
White of California, l.. Newman OF
Montana, Louis E. Sweet of Colorado.
1t was in Salt Lake on September
Is, 1891, that the first session of the
National Irrigation congress was held
The session just held in the city
where the organization was founded
was one of the most successful in the
annals of the congress, which was
changed during the week from ma
tional to international scope From
the great pageant and The rendition OF
the Ode to Irrigation which marked
its first session to the meetings OF
Thursday all plans have been carried
to complete fruition.
Administration of government recla'
nation projects, referred to for the
most part in adverse Criticism, occu
pied large amount of attention al
the Thursday session. Delegate Hoag
land Of Nebraska led in the discussion
during the thirty minutes allowed fol
consideration of such matters. HI
said that land in the North Platte pro
ject in Nebraska was settled upon tht
basis of $35 an acre, but that this price
had increased to $55 an acre. In hi
opinion the $75,000,000 expended b!
the government reclamation project
should be charged off to development
by the government, as in the case O
river and harbor improvements.
At the close of the discussion, Ser
ator Newlands urged tolerance on tn
part of settlers upon reclamation pre-
jects in face of serious problems en-
countered by the government in ad
ministration of such affairs. Thes
settlers should also avoid any SEN
blance of reputation of sums due tn
government, declared the senator,
they wished to preserve the integrit
Of promises by the men who urge
the passage of the reclamation act.
Don Bark of Idaho, irrigation e,
pert of the department of agricultur,
delivered an address on THE Duty {
Water in Idaho" He was followe
by Professor Lewis A. Merrill, VIII
spoke on Stock Raising and Dair
ing in the Irrigated Region Profe
sor Henry S. Graves, United State
forester, delivered an address on I'll
Nation and the States in Forestry"
DR., w. e. Garrison, president of Il
New Mexico College of Agricultur
read paper on Good Roads as
State and Nsi.saal Problem" He
clared good roads necessity and mo-
than local in value as overcoming is
lation.
II. S. Lea of South Dakota, II.
Walker of Kansas and Alex. McPhe
son of New Mexico each read fiv
minute paper on pumping for irrig
ton.
The opening session was held In Il
Tabernacle Monday morning, Septel
Der 80, with at least thousand del
gates from every section of Ameri
any many from foreign countries pre-
ent. The Tabernacle was filed. it b
ing estimated that twelve thousal
people attended the opening sessio
AS suggested in the official spec,
of President Francis G. Newland
United States senator from Nevau
and echoed in the preliminary discr
sions of the delegates, the twentie
irrigation congress included in
deliberations the most extensive pl;
for control of Amer ica's water supp
in the broadcast sense ever contel
plated by public oody.
Revision of lands laws and hon
stead acts to check the tremendo
drain of capital and citizenship nc
resulting from the emigration mo,
ment to Canada. was another Wit
question to be considered by the CO
gress.
| There was warm discussion on Il
| proposition to merge the National Ir
, cation Congress with the Dry Farmil
Congress-. but the merger plan W;
not approved.
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