Official Call for Third National Irriga= 

 tion Congress. 



Y the authority of the National Executive Committee, the 

 Third National Irrigation Congress is hereby called to meet 

 in the city of Denver, Colorado, for the seven days beginning 

 September 3d, 1894. 



To the people of the western half of the United States 

 this congress presents both an urgent duty and a supreme opportunity. 



In this moment of extraordinary political, social and industrial unrest, 

 the nation may well recall Macaulay's prediction, that the real test of our 

 institutions would come with the exhaustion of our public domain. The 

 nation faces that situation to-day, with all its perilous possibilities, unless 

 the arid public lands are to be made fit for the homes of men. To suggest 

 the means whereby this may be done, so that idle energies shall find em- 

 ployment and landless citizens find homes and industrial independence, is 

 the duty and the opportunity of western men. 



Irrigation Commissions in seventeen States and Territories, created by 

 the last Irrigation Congress, will render reports to the convention at Den- 

 ver. Upon these studies of existing conditions and future needs in all 

 parts of the arid region it is proposed to construct a national policy and 

 code of local laws to be submitted to the federal Congress and the legisla- 

 tures of western States. 



BASIS OF REPRESENTATION. 



In accordance with a resolution adopted by the International Irriga- 

 tion Congress at Los Angeles, California, October J4th, 1893, the Third 

 National Irrigation Congress will be composed as follows. 



1. All members of the National Executive Committee. 



2. All members of State and Territorial Irrigation Commissions. 



3. Two delegates at large and as many additional delegates as they 

 have Congress districts, to be appointed by their respective governors for 

 the following States and Territories: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, 

 Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla- 

 homa, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. 



4. Two delegates at large for each State and Territory not heretofore 

 enumerated to be appointed by the governors of said States or Territories. 



5. Duly accredited representatives of any foreign nation or colony, 

 each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 

 each governor of a State or Territory, one member each from different 

 societies of irrigation, of irrigation engineers, of agriculture, of horticult- 

 ure, of chambers of commerce, of boards of trade, together with a delegate 

 appointed by the mayor of each incorporated city of the seventeen States 

 and Territories named as being directly interested in irrigation, will be ad- 

 mitted as honorary members. 



By order of 



THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



FRED L. ALLES, Secretary. 



WILLIAM E. SMYTHE, Chairman. 



