104 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Che fifth national Irrigation Congress 



To the People of the United /States of America: 



Pursuant to the order of the Fourth Irrigation Congress and to designation by the 

 National Executive Committee, the Fifth Annual Session of the National Irrigation 

 Congress will be held in the City of Phoenix, Arizona, upon the dates of December 15, 

 16 and 17, 1896. 



The membership of the body will be made up as follows, in accordance with the 

 resolutions of the Third and Fourth Congresses : 



BASIS OF REPRESENTATION. 



1. All members of the National Executive Committee. 



2. All members of State and Territorial Irrigation Commissions. 



3. Five delegates at large, to be appointed by their respective Governors, for each 

 of the following States and Territories : Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, 

 Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South 

 Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. 



4. Three delegates at large for each State and Territory not heretofore enumera- 

 ted, to be appointed by the Governors of said States and Territories ; or, in the case of 

 the District of Columbia, by the President. 



5. One delegate each from regularly organized Irrigation, Agricultural, and Horti- 

 cultural Societies, and Societies of Engineers, Irrigation Companies, Agricultural 

 Colleges, and commercial bodies, such as Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, etc. 



6. Duly accredited representatives of any foreign nation or colony, each member 

 of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and each Governor of a State 

 or Territory will be admitted as honorary members. 



THE WORK OF THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 



The work of the National Irrigation Congress has now continued for more than 

 five years. The first session was held in the City of Salt Lake, Utah ; the second in Los 

 Angeles, California ; the third in Denver, Colorado ; and the fourth in Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico. Each session was marked by keen interest and by intelligent and effect- 

 ive work in the cause of irrigation and the reclamation of the arid lands of the West. 



THE FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION. 



The coming session at Phoenix will, it is not doubted, be the most effective of all. 

 Particularly prominent will be made the discussion of points of legislation in order that 

 well-digested measures be prepared for the consideration of the Federal Congress and 

 of the State Legislatures. Though able authorities will be in attendance and have been 

 placed upon the programme for the presentation of subjects of technical and economic 

 interest, it is designed that the Fifth Congress shall be a body with work far more 

 general than has been the case in any of its predecessors. Addresses presenting sub- 

 jects shall be limited to fifteen minutes, and the subsequent discussion to half an hour, 

 this ruling of the Executive Committee not applying, however, to the discussion of legis- 

 lation or resolutions. 



PHOENIX AND ITS ENVIRONMENT. 



The City of Phcenix, chosen for the location of the Fifth Congress, is in every way 

 well adapted. It is a thrifty and progressive city of 12,000 inhabitants, the capital of 

 the Territory of Arizona, and is excellently well prepared for the reception of even the 

 thousands who will come to attend the Congress. Its local committee of arrangements 

 and reception is already at work, and the promise is extended that every visitor will be 

 furnished with the best of accommodations at prices even lower than usually charged 

 locally. Ample opportunity will be afforded delegates to inspect all points of interest 

 without cost. 



Railroad rates will not exceed a single fare for the round trip from all points 

 between Chicago and the Pacific ocean ; details of transportation and ticket limitations 

 to be later announced by the interested railroads. Passengers may be routed into 

 Phoenix over either the Santa Fe or Southern Pacific railway systems. Opportunity at 

 low cost will be given for side trips to the Grand Canon of the Colorado, to the City of 

 Mexico, to Southern California and other points. 



E. R. MOSES, 



Chairman National Executive Committee, GREAT BEND, KANSAS. 



