TENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS 



"FORESTRY, HARMONY AND COLONIZATION." 



Preparations for holding the tenth session of the National Irriga- 

 tion congress at Colorado Springs, October 6 to 9 inclusive, of this 

 year are going vigorously forward. C. E. Wantland, chairman of the 

 executive committee of the congress, and Hon. F. C. Goudy, member 

 of the executive committee of the congress for Colorado, both of Den- 

 ver, and Secretary McClurg, of the chamber of commerce, who is 

 chairman of the committee on local arrangements for the National 

 Irrigation congress, are now devoting the greater part of their time 

 to the necessary preparatory work. 



While it cannot be promised that President Roosevelt will attend 

 the congress in person, it is understood that he will prepare an ad- 

 dress to be read before the delegates, and he is in entire accord with 

 the holding of the congress at this time. It is likely that a large at- 

 tendance will be present, and to that end all railroads in the Western 

 Passenger association and in the Transcontinental Passenger associa- 

 tion have made rates of one -half fare plus $2 for the round trip from 

 all points in this territory, and these special rate tickets will be good 

 returning from Colorado Springs up to October 31. 



Letters hav been sent by the executive committee and others to 

 all of the leading papers of the sixteen western states directly inte- 

 rested in the reclamation of the arid regions, requesting them, editor- 

 ially and locally, to make known the holding of the irrigation con- 

 gress at Colorado Springs in October, and very many of these jour- 

 nals have already complied with the request, the subject being of the 

 primest importance to the people of the "Greater West.'' 



It is planned to devote an entire day on the program to the dis- 

 cussion of the national irrigation act, its operations and possibilities. 

 It goes without saying that the leading irrigation experts in the 

 country will be on hand to take part in the discussion, and all the 

 senators and congressmen of the states and territories in the arid re- 

 gion have especially been invited to be present and join in the pro- 

 gram and debate. 



Governor Orman has been invited, and it is expected will deliver 

 an address of welcome to delegates, followed by Mayor Robinson of 

 Colorado Springs, welcoming them to the foot of Pike's Peak. 



Hon. Thomas F. Walsh, president of the National Irrigation con- 

 gress, who is now in Europe visiting Leopold, the king of Belgium, 



