PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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at this time to correctly estimate the value 

 of Governor Jones' work, or to befittingly 

 express the sense of loss at his untimely 

 decease. 



THE LATE GOVERNOR JOHN E. JONES, OF 

 NEVADA. 



was possible to construct reservoirs by 

 building dams across coulees or ravines, 

 and thus impound large bodies of water 

 capable of irrigating immense areas of 

 land. The water now going to waste in 

 the larger rivers, the Missouri and the 

 Yellowstone, as well as their tributaries, 

 the Sun, Milk, Big Horn, Tongue and 

 many others, was simply enormous. 



Other speakers were Governor J. E. 

 Rickards, Prof. S. M. Emery, of the Ex- 

 periment Station at Bozeman, Jerry 

 Collins, Jas. M. Mills, commissioner of 

 the bureau of labor, E. Larssen, Chas. S. 

 Fee, General Passenger Agent of the 

 Northern Pacific, J. K Foote, T. E. 

 Collins, D. R. McGinniss, Moses Folsom, 

 of the Great Northern Railway, Judge 

 Strevell and C. R. Middleton. 



THE DEATH OF GOVERNOR JONES. 



IN the death of Governor John E. Jones, 

 of Nevada, not only the State but the 

 entire West has lost a true friend and an 

 honest and faithful worker for its best in- 

 terests. Governor Jones was an ardent 

 advocate of irrigation, and probably to his 

 efforts more than those of any other indi- 

 vidual is due the firm foundation which 

 has been laid for the future development 

 of the State of Nevada. It is impossible 



FOURTH NATIONAL CONGRESS 

 REPORT. 



I HAVE frequent applications for copies 

 of the Proceedings of the Fourth 

 National Irrigation Congress, held at Al- 

 buquerque, New Mexico, September, 1895, 

 but am compelled to refuse all applicants, 

 because the proceedings of the congress 

 have never been published. 



A word of explanation at this point is 

 due to the members of the congress and 

 is also due as a matter of justice to the 

 members of the National Executive Com- 

 mittee of 1895. The proceedings of all 

 previous congresses have been published 

 by the Convention cities. The National 

 Committee has no funds for such publica- 

 tion. No assessment was ever made on 

 delegates to the congress, and the ex- 

 penses of the meetings, usually from 

 $3,000 to $4,000, have always been borne 

 by the city in which the congress met. 

 The citizens of Albuquerque and New 

 Mexico spent a large sum of money in 

 advertising the congress, in providing a 

 place of meeting, in badges, program, 

 etc. , and probably do not feel justified 

 now in expending an additional $500 to 

 $800 in printing the proceedings. 



The local press at Albuquerque, though 

 hampered by limited facilities and hin- 

 dered by the existence of the Territorial 

 Fair during the same week, gave most 

 excellent reports of the proceedings of 

 the congress, printing much of the dis- 

 cussion and many of the papers in full, so 

 that the delegates, by saving the local 

 papers, were all able to take home with 

 them reasonably complete reports of the 

 meeting. 



I have made this explanation thus 

 lengthy and in detail in order to silence, if 

 possible, the criticism which seems to 

 exist in some quarters against the old 

 Executive Committee for not publishing 

 the proceedings of the Albuquerque Con- 

 gress, for it is a matter with which the 

 Committee has had nothing whatever to 

 do. FRED L. ALLES, 



Los Angeles, Cal. 

 Secretary Fourth National Irrigation Congress. 



