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S. B. ROBBLNS. 

 Member of the National Executive Committee for Montana. 



.Kansas and Nebraska respectively, have made stren- 

 ous efforts for good irrigation laws. Judge L. F. 

 Shurtliff, member for Utah, has also done splendid 

 service in the way of organizing a favorable public 

 sentiment, and in protecting the interests of irriga- 

 tion before the constitutional convention of the em- 

 bryo State. He has been most ably assisted by C. L. 

 Stevenson, of Salt Lake. In California, Secretary 

 Alles has been as indefatigable as ever in his attention 

 to the work of his office, and ex-Governor Sheldon, 

 the State member, has done all in his power to ac- 

 complish results in face 6f adverse circumstances. 

 Professor Boggs, in Arizona, has his work still before 

 him, as the Carey law does not yet apply to the Ter- 

 ritories. Max Frost, member from New Mexico, has 

 cut out for him a big job in preparation for the Fourth 

 Congress, to be held in Albuquerque. In Texas and 

 Oklahoma, General Clarke and Judge Pitzer have 

 served the cause by calling conventions and organ- 

 izing vigorous local movements. Mr. Kellogg con- 

 tended unsuccessfully against odds in Colorado. 

 This year's committee, as a whole, marks a distinct 

 advance on any previous body in the matter of intel- 

 ligent activity. It is the ambition of the committee 

 to show a magnificent record for the year when it 

 reports to its constituents at Albuquerque. 



There were those who predicted that 

 irrigation there would not be another session of 

 Congress. ^ e i rr ig a tj on Congress. Such prophets 

 reckon without knowledge of the forces that move 

 and direct currents of human thought and action. 

 The Fourth National Irrigation Congress will be 

 held late in September, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 It will be the largest and livest, the most interest- 

 ing and most useful event of the kind yet held. It 

 will attract far more notice throughout the country 

 than did the meeting at Denver last year, as that 

 commanded more attention than the meeting at Los 

 Angeles, and as the Los Angeles event attracted more 

 attention than its predecessor at Salt Lake. Move- 

 ments of such significance to the Nation and the race 

 as the irrigation movement, do not grow smaller and 

 weaker while their work is still before them. They 

 grow greater and stronger. Already the plans of 

 the next congress are well in hand. The National 

 Committee is busy wiih its program of commission 

 reports, p'apers and addresses, which will be more 

 comprehensive than ever before. The local commit- 

 tees are dealing enthusiastically with the details of 

 their preparations for entertainment and sight-show- 

 ing. The New Mexico Legislature appropriated 

 2,500 as a contribution to the expense of the Con- 

 gress an instance of unparalleled generosity in such 

 matters. Meantime, the phenomenal development 

 of interest in the reclamation and settlement of the 

 arid region, exhibited both in the West and in the 



L. H. TAYLOR. 



Member of the National Executive Coimr.ittee for Nevada. 



