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THE HUM G ATI ON AGE. 



pudiate whatever counsel shall be given them by those 

 who are so deeply interested in its vigorous action as 

 the irrigators of the country. 



The National Irrigation Congress is something 

 more than a mere name, and it has reached its present 

 condition by hard struggling against the obstacles 



gress will assume its proper place as a perfected work- 

 ing organization ; if not, then there must be one ready 

 that will. 



IKIiKJATIOX AND" THE NEWSPAPEK MEN. 



The most far-reaching consequence of the Ogden 

 congress, one that will leave its impress for all time 



LOGAN UTAH. 



PROPHECY FULFILLED: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice, 



and blossom as the rose." Isaiah 35: 1. 



thrown in the way of its very existence. It has been 

 menaced, browbeaten and wheedled by those within 

 its own organization ; it has been obliged to fight against 

 the attempts to transform it into a private land scheme 

 by land grabbers and by those who have a greedy eye on 



on tVe minds of the people of the country, was its at- 

 tractive power to draw from the capital of the nation, 

 Washington, about a score of men, the brightest and 

 best material representing the greatest and most influ- 

 ential newspapers of the nation. 



"THEY WERE FED ON GOOD ALFALFA." 

 Work Horses about to be shipped to Southern Utah for Construction Work on Irrigation Cana's. 



the millions in the reclamation fund. All of these 

 it has had to combat, and it has now defeated them, but 

 has not yet rooted them out, perhaps "smoked out" 

 would better express the idea, but at El Paso the con- 



Said Major Carson, of the New York Times, the 

 dean of the Washington newspaper corps, in a speech 

 before the Eleventh National Irrigation Congress, allud- 

 ing to this trip : "We were offered an opportunity to 



