PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



PROMINENT DELEGATES AT THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 



THE recent Convention at Denver surpassed all its 

 predecessors in its representative character.the 

 delegates being actual residents of the regions 

 they represented, and a number of them were men 

 especially fitted, by study and experience, to deal 

 with the work of the Congress. Seventeen States and 

 Territories in Western America, and a number of 

 Eastern and Southern States, were represented at 

 Denver; also Mexico and Canada. It is very signi- 

 ficant, as showing the advancement of the irrigation 

 idea, that the old-style farming States of the East 

 should send their representatives to this Convention, 

 and implies startling possibilities in the future of the 

 agricultural population in those States. 



Each succeeding Congress shows a rapidly increas- 

 ing interest in the subject of irrigation, and brings 

 forward in greater numbers men of enterprise and 

 intelligence, who recognize in this question of scien- 

 tific agriculture the solution of the problem of dis- 

 posing of the surplus labor of cities, and providing 

 homes and support for the many millions which time 

 will add to our population. 



X SENATOR CAREY, 

 Of Wyoming, Author of the Carey Land Law. 



JOHN HENRY SMITH, 

 Of Utah 



JUDGE JAMES B. BELFORD, 

 Of Colorado. 



