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ver. Elwood Mead was chosen President of the Con- 

 gress, while the chairman and secretary of the Na- 

 tional Committee, the other objects of the guberna- 

 torial spleen, were handsomely reelected. This is 

 the quiet but effective answer of the irrigation .move- 

 ment to the ferocious governor and the estimable 

 gentleman from California. 



No one who has not himself expe- 

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Denver rienced the work involved in making 

 Committee. ^ e p re ij ni j nar y arrangements for an 

 important convention can appreciate the debt which 

 the irrigation congress owes to the local committee 

 at Denver, and especially to Chairman E. W. Mer- 

 ritt and Secretary Thomas L. Smith. These gentle- 

 men and their colleagues labored assiduously for 



several weeks to perfect the arrangements for the 

 Third National Irrigation Congress and to give the 

 event the widest publicity. Their agreements were 

 fulfilled to the letter, and members of the national 

 committee, particularly, are indebted to them for 

 courtesies received. Mr. Smith was appropriately 

 honored by an election as secretary of the congress. 

 The elaborate excursions planned by the committee 

 failed only because there were not a sufficient num- 

 ber of delegates who had time available for the entire 

 program, out the delightful day spent at Greeley, 

 Fort Collins, Longmontand Boulder and the festival 

 day at Rocky Ford will never be forgotten. They 

 were practical revelations of the results of irrigation 

 applied to good soil. 



PULPIT TERRACES, MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. reached via the Union Pacific System. 



