THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



IRRIGATION IN THE SOUTH. 



IRRIGATION was carried on here and 

 1 there in various Southern States the 

 past season. A Southern Irrigation 

 Congress has just been organized and 

 preparations are being made the present 

 winter for general irrigation in 1896. 



The meeting and organization at 

 Atlanta was a great event. The City 

 Council chamber was crowded. Dr. H. 

 C. White, president of the Georgia State 

 Commission, of Irrigation, called the 

 assemblage to order and delegates re- 

 sponded from all the Southern States. 

 Hon. John Triplett, in behalf of the 

 State of Georgia, the city of Atlanta and 

 the Cotton States and International Ex- 

 position,, welcomed the Congress in an 

 eloquent speech. 



The constitution adopted, among other 

 things, provides that the organization 

 shall be known as the Southern Irri- 

 gation Congress, and shall meet annually, 

 officers being elected on the first day of 

 each session. 



State Commissions of Irrigation shall be 

 created in each State represented in this Con- 

 gress in the following manner: The delegates 

 from each State shall recommend to the Execu- 

 tive Committee five proper persons in their 

 State for appointment as members of the State 

 Commission of Irrigation, and, if the Executive 

 Committee approve, proper certificates of their 

 appointment, for the term of three years, shall 

 be signed by the President and Secretary. 



The members of the Executive Committee 

 are instructed to furnish the secretary of this 

 Congress, from time to time, with statistics of 

 irrigation in their respeciive States, that he 

 may disseminate this information for the en- 

 lightenment of the people. 



The work of this Congress is educational, 

 and designed to bring out fully every fact con- 

 nected with irrigation, embracing the proper 

 drainage of land, the terracing of farms, the 

 preservation of ihe forests and the utilization of 

 the water-power at our command. 



Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, Prof. J. B. Hunnicutt, Athens, Ga. ; 

 vice-president, Hon. H. C. Gardner, 

 Nashville, Tenn. ; secretary. Major W. G. 

 Whidby, Atlanta, Ga. ; treasurer, Hon. 

 John Triplett, Thomasville. Ga. ; sergeant- 

 at-arms, Hon. Wilberforce Daniel, 

 Augusta, Ga. ; postmistress, Miss Kate 

 Brasington, Cincinnati. Ohio. 



Executive Committep Alabama, P. H. 

 Mell, Auburn; Arkansas, Jeff D. Well- 

 born, K^rrs; Florida, O. Chute, Lake 

 City; Georgia, C. J. Bayne, Augusta; 



Kentucky, H. C. Underwood, Atlanta, Ga. ; 

 Louisiana, Dr. W. C. Stubbs. New 

 Orleans; Maryland, H. R. Walvvorth,. 

 Baltimore; Missouri, Dr. C. E. Edwards, 

 Kansas City; Mississippi, S. M. Tracey, 

 Agricultural College; North Carolina, 

 Wade T. Hampton, Raleigh; South 

 Carolina, J. C. Hemphill, Charleston;. 

 Texas, A. M. Soule, College Station;. 

 Tennessee, T. H. Webb; Virginia, J. F. 

 Jackson, Richmond; .West Virginia, A. 



B. White, Parkersburg. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Nash- 

 ville invited the Congress to hold its next 

 session in that city. The invitation was 

 seconded with spirit by the City Council 

 of Nashville, the mayor of that city, the 

 Board of Public Works and the Tennessee 

 Centennial. Accepted. 



Addresses were made as follows: Hon. 



C. R. Pringle, " The Preservation of Our 

 Forests;" Prof. J. B. Hunnicutt, 

 "The Full and True Meaning of Irri- 

 gation;" Frank P. Chaffee, Alabama 

 State Weather Service, " Distribution of 

 Rainfall and Moisture in the Southern 

 States;" Percy Sugdeu, " Irrigation and 

 Drainage of the Land from a Southern 

 Standpoint;" Dr. W. C. Stubbs, 

 Louisiana, "Irrigation." 



Prof. H. M. Wilson of the United 

 States Geological Survey gave a lecture- 

 on the all-absorbing subject. Lute Wil- 

 cox, by charts, illustrated the various- 

 methods of irrigating land, imparting 

 valuable information. 



Papers were read as follows: Prof. A. 

 M. So"' ", "A Bit of Irrigation History;"" 

 Hon. J S. Titcomb, "Suggestions;" 

 Hon. J. D. Wellborn, " Irrigation in 

 Arkansas; " Hon. J. E. Mercer. " Reclama- 

 tion of Land by State Authority." 

 Numerous talks and addresses were 

 made. 



The National Irrigation Congress sent 

 fraternal greeting by four delegates - 

 H. E. Heath, of Nebraska; Lute Wilcox, 

 of Colorado; Frank Woodford, of 

 Arizona, and A. E. Blount, of New 

 Mexico. 



The Tennessee Centennial Exposition 

 is to be held at Nashville from September 

 1 to November 10, 1896, and the next 

 session of the Congress will be held at 

 Nashville during that time. 



Among the resolutions was one giving 

 the thanks of the Congress and of the 

 entire South to Major W. G. Whidby,. 



