New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-13
FLOOD CONFERENCE
HERE IN JANUARY
SEVERAL HUNDRED DELEGATES
WILL DEMAND RELIEF FROM
CONGRESS
MEETING is TO IMMEDIATELY
PRECEDE CONVENTION AT
ST. PAUL

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Of which will probably be either on the
srd Or 4th OF that month, day or two
preceding the All-Minnesota Develop
ment Associations conference, which is
to be held in st. Paul January and 6.
The exact date will be set by the secre-
tary of the Tri-State Flood Association
within few days.
This was agreed upon at the hearing
held at Ortonville last Saturday. New
Ulm was chosen as the place for the con-
ference for the reason that it is the most
central point between the mouth and
the headWaters OF the Minnesota river,
and there are hundreds of farmers and
business men all up and down the stream
who are vitality interested in the project
To Adopt Resolutions.
1t is planned to pass resolutions de-
handing that the Congressman from the
districts affected by the foods IN the
Minnesota ard Red River valleys do
their utmost to have suitable bills passed
in congress that will bring about the
necessary relief There will probably be
several hundred delegates to the con-
ference here. All solid, hardheaded
farmers, with their minds firmly set on
something being done to relieve them,
and that done without further delay.
The prime object in calling the Tri-
State Flood Association conference here
to immediately precede the meeting of
the All-Minnesota Development Asso-
citation is two fold. First, many Of the
leaders Of the former body are delegates
to the st. Paul meeting and will 60 from
here to the state capital, loaded for BEAR
Second, it proposed that set of delegates
be appointed at the latter gathering who
will go to Washington to urge the
passage OF necessary bills and also to
secure the cooperation Of the govern
ment officials in pushing the project of
controlling the head waters OF the Min
nesota and Red rivers for the protection
oi property in those TWO valleys {
Interest is Spreading.
Interest in the flood control is spread
ing all up and down the Minnesota and
Red River valleys. Farmers who have
seen their crops ruined year after year,
and business men who have lost thous-
ands and thousands Of dollars in trade
caused by the floods are joined hand in
hand to secure an end to The evil, and to
the injury that has been done them.
John Frohrip, farmer of Eden town
ship, who is in New Ulm attending the
December term Of the district court.
told yesterday. of the damage that
has come home to him and his family,
both in the Minnesota and Red River
valleys. Not only has he seen his own
crops laid waste, but member of his
family, who owns rich farm in the Red
River valley, lost all of his crops, not
having enough to winter his stock or feed
his family and was obliged TO go with his
sons to the harvest fields Of North
Dakota to work thru the harvest and
corn husking seasons to earn enough
to keep his family tbru the winter.
IT we happen to have dry season
next year, we will be all right" said Mr..
Frohrip, but if not it will be the same
old story over again. These two valleys
are the richest in the world, if we are
but given the protection that We are
entitled to and which we will eventually
have"
Mayor Deeply Interested.
Mayor l.. A. Fritsche, who is deeply
interested in the matter, and who is de-
voting his own time and money to the
cause, says the present movement was
started by his father, Fred Fritsche. ST..
CT Lafayette township, who has lost
thousands Of dollars by the floods, and
that. his work of all those years is lust
bearing fruit.