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Through the efforts of the past Irrigation Congress a fund of 

 forty million dollars has been collected, which enormous 

 amount is being expended in the construction of twenty-fi\^e 

 great irrigation projects which will result in a cultivated area 

 of not less than three million acres of crop-producing land. 



N,ational and State officials, irrigation and forestry experts, 

 engineers, farmers and irrigators, manufacturers, professional 

 and business men, industrial workers, editors and other rep- 

 resentatives of the press w^ill attend the Congress. 



Simultaneously with the Irrigation Congress there will be 

 held at Sacramento an Interstate Exposition of Irrigated Land 

 Products and Forest Products. The exhibition of irrigated 

 products will be the finest ever assembled anywhere In 

 America. 



The California State Fair will follow the Congress, opening 

 on September 7th, when the joint closing and opening cere- 

 monies will be attended by a great irrigation celebration, the 

 day closing with a magnificent allegorical irrigation parade 

 and electrical illumination. 



California affords many opportunities for the study of irri- 

 gation, irrigation practices and results, irrigated crops of every 

 kind and irrigation opportunities- Sacramento, the capital city 

 of California, where the Congress will be held, is situated 

 near the center of the great valley which extends lengthwise 

 through the State a distance of nearly five hundred miles ar.d 

 comprises approximately ten million acres of fertile land. 

 Colossal plans for the construction of storage dams, and dis- 

 tributing canals for the irrigation of this great plain are now 

 being made by engineers of the Reclamation Service and 

 money has been apportioned from the reclamation fund for 

 the construction of an initial unit of the great system con- 

 templated. 



September is a season of fruits and grapes in California and 

 visitors to the Congress will have opportunities at Sacra- 

 mento and throughout the State of enjoying the best that 

 California orchards and vineyards yield and of enjoying it 

 fresh from tree and vine. 



The program of the Congress will consist of addresses by 

 men eminent in this and other countries, carefully prepared 

 papers by administrative officials and engineers of the Na- 

 tional Reclamation S'^'-vice and Forest Service, with ample 

 provision for volunteer speeches and discussion. 



All delegates will be invited to visit San Francisco, where 

 re-building operations are being carried forward on a scale 

 so vast as to render that city today the greatest and most in- 

 teresting exhibition of man's constructive genius, civic pride 

 and commercial enterprise ever witnessed in the world. 



