Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22

Andrew Kimball, president Of st. Joseph's Stake, Church of Latter Day Saints and president of the state board of agriculture, has written the following account of his trip Co the interstate irrigation convention at Helena, Mont, and the dry farming congress at Wichita, Kan.
 The interstate irrigation convention in Helena, Mont was called as a re sult of the meeting of western gov ernors and irrlgators who met in Denver last April at the call of Mr. Lane. secretary of the interior. There were present two representatives from each of the western irrigated states, Mir Tolman of the land office and MT Newell, of the reclamation service, representing Mir Lane
 The purpose of this conference was to stimulate energy and new life in the irrigation projects and the devel- opment of the irrigated sections of the United States
 
 nation as it exists. our commission agree upon a policy which will have Co be completed or cagried out fur ther in a meeting 10 be called in Washington, D C., early in Decem- Der. at which time we haDe to com plete our resolutions and muster our strength and force and urge congress for an appropriation of a hundred mil lion dollars to go into a revolving fund to strengthen the projects al- ready under way and to develop new irrigation projects within this portion of the United States
 From Helena | went to Wichita. Kan, by the way of Salt Lake. While in the City of the Saints l attended the three day conference of the Mormon people and associated with prominent leading men, gleaning information for the best interests of our people and our state
 In the dry farming congress at Wichita, which was well attended by a strongly representative body of men and women, ] took the place on the program of Professor Forbes. director of experiment station, and while my talk was not scientific am sure l did something for Arizona by way of interesting people of other portions of our country in the resources and in the way of advertising our baby state.
 In the splendid agricultural ex. hibits of dry farming products under the supervision of Professor McOmie, of the experiment station and a rep. resentative from Coconiuo county, our Arizona exhibits carried off the prize for the best exhibit from four. teen states and Canada in a silver cup trophy worth $500 Besides this. we received thirty-two blue ribbons on different articles and seven red rib bons, as second prizes Aside from my talk Professor McOmie had two good opportunities and the gentleman who presented the trophy gave Ari- zona some very high compliments for her energy and good works.
 ] then attended the farmers ma tional congress at Fort Worth, and took part in the deliberations, agaiA bringing Arizona with her splendid resources prominently before the as- semblage of representative people from all over the United States
 During my round of travel Of near ly five thousand miles, I passed through ten states. made careful ob- servation of conditions along the lines of agriculture and horticulture in par ticular, and the financial situation and conditions generally attended the Utah state fair, the Texas state fair, as also the international exposi- ton which was given with the dry farming congress at Wichita Kan
 feel that my trip will be of value 10 our state, as well as that our state was permitted to contribute in a line Of work calculated to be of value to ouf nation