THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS 



Sixteenth Session, Albuquerque, N, Mex. 



NEARLY 900 deleg-ates attended 

 the Sixteenth National Irriga- 

 tion Congress, the first session 

 of which met at Albuquerque, N. Mex., 

 on September 29. The Congress was 

 one of the most interesting and suc- 

 cessful that has ever been held, and the 

 interest, both from a scientific and a 

 popular standpoint, was well sustained 

 throughout the entire meeting. 



Messrs. A. P. Davis and C. J. Blan- 

 chard represented the Reclamation 

 Service at the Congress ; Dr. W J 

 McGee, Secretary of the Inland Water- 

 ways Commission, read an extremely in- 

 teresting paper, while others on the 

 program were : Governor Curry, of 

 New Mexico ; former Governor L. 

 Bradford Prince, of New Mexico ; Mr. 

 John Barrett, Director of the Pan- 

 American Bureau ; Mr. Geo. C. Ander- 

 son, the well-known Colorado engi- 

 neer; Mr. A. L. Fellows, of Colorado; 



Mr. C. M. Mott, of Minnesota; Judge 

 D. C. Beaman, of Denver, who is 

 prominently identified with large cor- 

 poration interest in Colorado. 



The fight for the next Congress was 

 a spirited struggle between Spokane, 

 Wash., and Pueblo, Colo., the former 

 city finally winning out. Officers 

 elected for the Seventeeth National Ir- 

 rigation Congress are : 



President, Geo. E. Barstow. Texas ; 

 First Vice-president, Col. D. H. Love- 

 land, California ; Second Vice-presi- 

 dent, R. E. Twitchell, New Mexico ; 

 Third Vice-president, I. D. O'Donnell, 

 Montana ; Secretary, B. A. Fowler, 

 Pheonix, Ariz. 



The members of the permanent 

 Board of Control are : Geo. E. Bar- 

 stow, Fred J. Kiesel, W J McGee, B. 

 A. Fowler with one vacancy remain- 

 ing to be filled. 



The resolutions follow : 



REPORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE 



The Sixteenth National Irrigation Con- 

 gress takes note with ereat satisfaction of 

 the recent progress in irrigation and in other 

 uses of waters, and records its high appre- 

 ciation of the fact that greater progress has 

 been made in this direction during the years 

 since the congress has been an active factor 

 in public affairs than during all the earlier 

 years of our country's history. Great as 

 this progress has been, there is need for 

 continued action on the nart of this organi- 

 zation and of the citizens who have combined 

 to render the successive congresses success- 

 ful. In some measure, indeed, it seems clear 

 that the organization has barely passed the 

 threshold of its career of usefulness to the 

 people of our great West. 



The leading sentiments growing out of 

 this congress are expressed in the following 

 resolutions : 



Resolved. That we signifv appreciation and 

 approval of the work of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment largely in accordance with the 



recommendations of past congresses ; that 

 we particularly commend and indorse the 

 work of the Reclamation oervice in extend- 

 ing the usefulness of the waters of the arid 

 region, thereby increasing our population and 

 production, and multiphnng homes on the 

 land, together with the work of the Forest 

 Service, especially in its relation to the pro- 

 tection of the headwaters, the nrevention of 

 floods and the regulation of streams ; that 

 we indorse and approve the work of the 

 United States Geological Survey, particu- 

 larly in the Hydrographic and Topographic 

 branches, and strongly urge on the Congress 

 a more liberal support of these branches of 

 the public service ; that we approve and com- 

 mend the work of the Bureau of Soils in its 

 soil surveys, and especially in its demonstra- 

 tion of the adaptibility of soils to particular 

 crops throughout the arid region, and urge 

 on the Congress the extension of this branch 

 of the service on a larger scale ; that we com- 

 mend the operations of the Bureau of Plant 



589 



