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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



PRACTICAL SIDE OF THE CONGRESS. 



It will be a long time before the smoke of the 

 Eleventh National Irrigation Congress, held at Ogden, 

 Utah, in the year 1903, shall have been sufficiently 

 cleared away to perceive the real work that was done by 

 it. Its direct benefit is not small, but its indirect 



It was the fruit and produce exhibit of the Elev- 

 enth National Irrigation Congress which constitutes 

 the cap sheaf of its wise forethought in making a 

 showing that would express more than volumes of talk 

 and print. The display was one that the world entire 

 can not rival and to the stranger to the irrigated manor 



READY FOR THE MARKET. 

 A bunch of spring lambs, on the way to the stock yards. 



service to the cause of irrigation will prove incalcula- 

 ble. It was earnest enough to preserve the integrity 

 of its organization, strong enough to draw from the 

 great center of the nation's government the most en- 



born it was small wonder that he stood amazed at the 

 sight of produces that are never seen outside of the 

 domain of the farmer of reclaimed desert land. Words 

 were inadequate to express his astonishment, exclama- 



A CORNER IN SUGAR. 

 Small section of beet sheds at one of the Western sugar factories. 



lightened men of the country who could not resist the 

 desire to personally see what all "this palaver is about," 

 and it added to its work a practical illustration of the 

 value and profit of irrigation, and the enormous possi- 

 bilities of reclaimed desert lands. 



tions only relieving him from the idea that he was 

 dreaming. The wonderful showing demonstrates with- 

 out need of further argument the enormous and un- 

 limited resources of the arid West, when reclaimed by 

 irrigation, and it docs it in a more convincing and 



