Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-09-13
OFFICIAL GALL
IS ISSUED FOR
MEET At Ell PASO

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Ell PASO, Texas, Sept. 13.-The Of
fetal call for the twenty-third annual
meeting of the international Irrigation
Congress, to be held here Oct IA to IS,
has been issued over the signatures Of
President R. F. Burgess, of Texas; Sec
rotary Arthur Hooker, of Washington;
J. B. Case of Kansas, Chairman Board
of Governors; and James G. McNary,
Chairman Ell Paso Board of Control.
The call directs particular attention to
the formal dedication of the 100000
600 Elephant Butte dam by President
Wilson on October IA as one of the
leading features of the convention.
Details of the program to be fol-
lowed at the dam have not been
worked out but owing to the magni-
tude of the structure to be dedicated
to the service of mankind and the
prominence of those who will take
part in the ceremony there is every
reason to believe that the exercises
will be of a character in keeping with
the occasion.
| The first session of the irrigation
congress will be held at the dam, at
Elephant Butte, N. M, following the
dedicatory exercises. At the conclus-
ion of this meeting an adjournment
will be taken to this city. So far as
the congress is concerned Sunday
Oct. Is, will be day of rest, though
special services will be held in all of
{El Paso's churches, affording dele
safes and other visitors an opportun-
| ity to worship as their conscience may
dictate.
An elaborate program for the meet
ings of the congress which will be
held in Ell Paso, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Oct. 16, II and 18, is in
course of preparation. Men of national
and international reputation will take
prominent part Subjects of special
importance to be discussed are: Rural
Credits and Land Settlement; Drain
age and Engineering Problems; Irri-
cation Laws and Legislation; Irriga-
ton Practice; Irrigation Districts and
Markets and Marketing.
Owing to the interest in the settle
ment of these questions and the prob
! inence of the men who will lead the
discussions, there is every reason to
believe that the 1916 meeting of the
International Irrigation Congress will
take prominence over all other meet
ings OF the Congress held in the past.
Plans are under way to provide au-
toinoblle trips and excursions up AMI
down the valley from Ell Paso, in ord
er that the delegates may familiarize
Themselves with the opportunities Oh
the 100000 acres irrigable land under
the Elephant Butte Dam. Railway ex-
cursions will be run from Ell Paso and
Albuquerque to the dedication exercis-
es at the dam on October IA. The del
egates will be given opportunity to
see the various communities in the
valleys, such as Las Cruces, Mesilla
Park, the New Mexico Agricultural
College and Ysleta. The latter claimes
to be the Oldest settlement in what is
now-the United States, disputing that
honor with St. Augustine, Florida, and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
FL Paso is probably the only city in
the United States, If not in the world,
from which tourists may make an ex-
cursion by trolley into a foreign coun-
try, where the language, manners,
customs, modes of dress and style OF
architecture differ so radically from
the American conception of those de-
tails of life, as they do south of the Rio
Grande. These trips to Juarez, Mex
leo, may be made in absolute safety.
Delegates and visitors to Ell Paso
during the time of holding the Irriga.