El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-11
DRY FARMERS To
CONE TOELPASO
Contract Signed Soon; De-
post Made; Much PubA
Lefty to Result. \

FL Paso talked business Thursday
morning when il deposited its cham
Der Of commerce check for $1,000 here
TO the credit Of the international Dry
Farming congress. and shipped a du-
plicate deposit slip to chairman W. I.
Drummond Of the board of governors
OF that body at Denver. This consti-
tuted FL Paso's final step in bringing
the congress and Soils Products EXPOSE
ton TO the Pass City in Oct. 1916, and
assures the greatest triangular cele-
bration IN the history Of the southwest
Irrigation Congress-
The annual convention Of the Inter
national congress is practically ar
ranged for the same week. and plans
are about agreed to for the holding
of the celebration Of the dedication Of
the Elephant Butte prOiect here in
conjunction with the two big affairs.
The formal contracts settling the
agreement TO bring the farming con-
gress here will come signed by the
officers Of that body. to be sent with
in the week from Denver The cham
Der Of commerce has completed its end
Of the contract here
To BE Held Next October.
The date for the beginning Of Fl
Paso triangular celebration is to be the
ten days beginning with October IL
or Is. Before December L, this year,
chairman ". l. Drummond and secre-
tary r. H FaxOn, Of the board Of gov
errors will come to Fl PasO and c.
GlAE a EuAAE OF OAAAEGS III LAAE IAAaLAAAIeA
Of commerce building, bringing their
office force with them From
here they will conduct the big adver-
Using campaign which VIII bring thou
sands here for the great soils products
exposition.
At leave five families will arrive in
the coming Of the officers Of the farm
ing congress in December.
$4,000 Fund
Fl Paso's representative have agreed
10 underwrite a fund OF $4,000 for the
farming congress and it IS already as
sured. il is stated, that large pro-
portion will return to the city almost
Immediately with the opening Of the
exposition from gate receipts
The money ThursdaS morning de-
posfted to the credit OF the Information
al Dry Farming congress is accom-
panied by the notation that TO checks
are to be made against it until the
officers Of the congress have forward
ed here their contracts. signed by them
Also. the contract secured by Fl Paso
contains a clause which specities that
the agreement shall be invalid unless
the International Irrigation congress
agrees TO hold its convention here on
or about the same date with the farm
ing congress Richard F. Burgess, pres
ident Of this latter organization Is
practically assured Of the bringing OF
the big irrigation convention here next
widest PubIIeIty.
Besides the routine publicity Work
done by the congress itself through its
mailing list many thousands of agri-
cuIturaIists in all parts Of the western
United States and Canada. it issues
a monthly journal devoted 10 activities
Of the organization. carrying circu-
latiou Of some u. goo Practically every
farming trade journal in the country
and across the Canadian line follows
the movements Of the congress and Fl
PasO will figure strongly in these for
the next ten months
Three months before the big con-
veution is actually staged here, the pup
licity and aggressive campaign WOrk
OF the congress expands 10 tremendous
volume. with half a score Of clerks
Working ovR- time TO ship out adyer-
Using.
All Day Conference
In concluding final arrangements on
the bringing OF the International Farm
ing congress here, CLIMBER Of COM
merce directors were in extended ses-
sion with chairman Drummond Of the
former organization Wednesday morn
ing and afternoon Those taking part
in the last steps OF the plans TO get
the big show to FL Paso for next fall
were president R B. Orndorff, Of the
chamber and directors II. 5 Potter. H
S Beach, W. G. Roe. and Harry swain
Publicity commissioner George H Glenn
euts and secretary n \ Fraser had
much TO do with the arrangements for
The final agreement