THE THIRD NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 



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THE CITY OF DENVER. 



THE SECOND CONGRESS AT LOS ANGELES. 



The second Irrigation Congress was held at Los 

 Angeles last October and resulted in the creation 

 of the irrigation commissions. This was avowedly a 

 truce between the friends and the opponents of the 

 plan of cession. It provided a year for study and 

 debate, at the end of which it was hoped a wise 

 compromise could be effected and western senti- 

 ment united upon it. The congress at Los Angeles 

 accomplished more than the creation of the commis- 

 sions, however. It attempted to declare certain fund- 

 amental principles upon which measures of legis- 

 lation should hereafter be based. In another depart- 



ment of this number of THE IRRIGATION AGE these 

 principles are stated and analyzed. 



OTHER FEATURES OF THE PROGRAMME. 



Each of the former irrigation congresses presented 

 elaborate programmes aside from the debates and 

 declarations upon the vital issues referred to. Such 

 events always attract a large attendance of thinking 

 men, and bring to the front those most capable of 

 discussing the various phases of the subject in which 

 they are particularly interested. This was the case 

 at Salt Lake, but in a larger degree it was true of 

 Los Angeles. In the latter case the more extended 



