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CONSERVATION 



tire watersheds both in and out of national 

 forests, and that such investigations be prose- 

 cuted simultaneously throughout all the 

 states and territories in the arid and semi- 

 arid West. 



The importation of free tropical sugar in 

 competition with our home product would 

 be destructive of the domestic industry. We 

 therefore urge our Representatives and Sena- 

 tors to earnestly oppose the enactment of any 

 legislation that would allow such competi- 

 tion. 



That we favor the adoption of vigorous 

 measures in each of the trans-Missouri arid 

 and semi-arid states and territories to se- 

 cure the creation of immigration bureaus, 



That whenever large tracts of land suitable 

 for agriculture and which are not natural 

 forest, and which are not intended to be 

 made forest and which are not necessary or 

 proper for the preservation of the forest or 

 the watershed or water supplies for the pur- 

 poses to which they have been devoted, lie 

 within forest reserve boundaries, such tracts 

 should be restored to entry as public land. 



That we urge the Congress of the United 

 States to amend the so-called Carey act, so 

 as to make it apply to the territories as well 

 as states. 



That it is desirable that this congress shall 

 cooperate so far as it may be able, with the 

 National Conservation Commission for the 



AN ARIZONA IRRIGATED RANCH 

 Canal at the McQueen Ranch, in the Salt River Valley, near Mesa, Ariz. 



supported by liberal appropriations, in order 

 that reliable and official information may be 

 available for the benefit of homeseekers. 



That this congress expresses its appreciation 

 and indorsement of the tree-growing move- 

 ment being promoted by the Federation of 

 the Tree Growing Clubs of America. 



That it is the sense of this congress that 

 such legislation should be had, in justice to the 

 Forest Service and claimants to property rights 

 within national forests, as will provide for a 

 review at the instance of any party aflfected, 

 by a competent tribunal, of controversies 

 relating to homestead entries, or forest con- 

 trol or regulation, or arising from any action, 

 regulation, or the ruling of forest officers. 



promotion, and accomplishment of its pur- 

 poses, and the president of this congress is au- 

 thorized and directed to appoint a committee 

 to be known as the conservation committee 

 of the National Irrigation Congress, which ' 

 shall consist of the president of this con- 

 gress and four other members, to be ap- 

 pointed by him, to cooperate and aid the 

 National Conservation Commission in its ob- 

 jects and purposes in so far as they coincide 

 with the objects and purposes of this con- • 

 gress. 



That in harmony* with the report of the 

 special committee authorized by the Fifteenth 

 Irrigation Congress, we urge the importance 

 of holding an early session of this congress, 



