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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Success Smiles On Irrigation Congress. 



Governors Appoint Delegates Avalanche of Inquiry Reaches Officials- 

 Industry's Giants Will Attend. 



In daily receipt of hundreds of letters from citizens 

 all over the United States, asking for information as to 

 transportation facilities and hotel accommodations, 

 Chairman Insinger and Secretary Hooker, of the Spo- 

 kane Board of Control, are elated at the prospect of a 

 mammoth attendance and country-wide interest in. the 

 National Irrigation Congress to be held at Spokane 

 Aug. 9-14. 



State officials are co-operating with the board to 

 make the congress memorable in the annals of irriga- 

 tion progress. Satisfied with the prospects for attend- 

 ance, the board is now doubling its effort toward the 

 proper entertainment of the many distinguished visi- 

 tors. New features are rapidly being outlined and ar- 

 ranged. 



Because of the peculiar significance of the con- 

 gress, in view of rapidly mending financial conditions 

 and the outlook for development of projects heretofore 

 lying dormant for lack of funds, many of the most influ- 

 ential railroad officials and industrial chiefs have de- 

 cided to arrange a trip to Spokane in August. It is 

 apparent that the aggressive publicity methods em- 

 ployed by the Board of Control, and supplemented by 

 the many agencies favorable to irrigation projects, have 

 awakened the public to the importance of reclamation 

 work. Two months in advance of the actual date of the 

 congress it can be predicted with every degree of cer- 

 tainty that the seventeenth gathering will be the most 

 important ever held by the organization. 



Three states, each backed by organization and sen- 

 timent, will be actively in the field to capture the next 

 national congress. Illinois, represented by members of 

 the Chicago Association of Commerce, will be prepared 

 to press the claim that this city should be the next meet- 

 ing place. Pueblo believes it has prior claims and will 

 send several trainloads of delegates and boosters to 

 urge its selection for 1910. South Carolina will occupy 

 a chair near the rostrum when the date for fixing the 

 next congress arrives, and it is predicted that the south- 

 erners will be prepared to show cause why the next 

 meeting should be held .in the south. 



WITH FLAGS AND MUSIC. 



Spokane Plans Elaborate Welcome and Entertainment of 

 Congress Visitors. 



Various stages of the development of the Pacific North- 

 west, from the entrance of Captains Meriwether Lewis and 

 William Clark into what was then the Oregon country in 

 1805 to the present day, will be exemplified by two parades 

 of progress and a march in review by the industrial and irri- 

 gation army. 



These open-air features are being arranged as follows : 



August 10, Afternoon Parade of progress, showing 



the transformation of the Northwest from semi-savagery 



to civilization, by a series of panoramic floats and mounted 



men and marchers. 



August 11, Evening Illuminated parade of progress 

 representing various periods from 1805 to 1909. 



August 18, Afternoon Parade and countermarch of the 

 industrial and irrigation army, with 10,000 uniformed men in 

 line. 



Ten massed exhibits of the resources of the country will 

 be installed at street intersections in the prominent parts 

 of the city to show visitors the progress of the Northwest. 

 These pyramids will include grains, grasses, fruits, lumber 

 and minerals. 



Marching clubs from the irrigated and dry-farming dis- 

 tricts in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington, California, 

 Wyoming, Utah, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, 

 Arizona, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and other states in the 

 middlewest, east and south and from the provinces of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are ex- 

 pected to participate in the parades. 



The feature of the opening of the congress will be the 

 raising of hundreds of flags to the tops of as many 40-foot 

 poles in the residential districts and the unfurling of flags 

 and banners in the business sections the morning of August 

 9, when massed musicians, headed by the Third Regiment 

 United States Infantry Band, will play patriotic airs. This 

 will be followed with the rendition of the Irrigation Ode by 

 a large chorus of trained singers and the singing of state 

 hymns by school children. 



GOVERNORS SELECT DELEGATES. 



In response to the request of R. Insinger, chairman of 

 the local board of control, governors of the various states 

 have appointed official representatives to the congress. Among 

 the lists of these state delegates, instructed to attend and 

 participate in the deliberations, are the following: 



Nebraska D. Clem Deaver, Henry T. Clark and E. A. 

 Cudahy, Omaha; W. S. Lorlan, McCook; Grant L. Shum- 

 way, Scotts Bluffs; A. M. Morrisey, Valentine; Charles 

 Coffee, Chadron, James B. McDonald and J. G. Bealer, North 

 Platte; Adna Dobson, Lincoln; C. A. Edwards, Kearney; 

 H. O. Smith, Lexington ; Page T. Francis, Crawford ; M. B. 

 Smith, Bridgeport, and W. A. Sharpnack, Alma. 



Utah Fred J. Kiesel, Ogden; John Henry Smith, T. C. 

 Callister, Caleb Tanner and John Dern of Salt Lake City. 



Texas Ed. R. Kone, Commissioner of Agriculture, Aus- 

 tin; W. S. Chaplain, Mercedes; B. H. Collins, Anahuac; 

 L. C. Hill, Harlington, and P. A. Hayes, Barstow. 



South Carolina E. J. Wilson, Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, Commerce and Industries, Columbia ; F. H. Hyatt, 

 President of the Good Roads Association, Columbia; D. F. 

 Moore, Brunson ; J. A. Harvey, Pinopolis, and Samuel G. 

 Stony, Charleston. 



NOTES. 



Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, director of the horticul- 

 tural college at Cornell University, who is widely known 

 throughout the west as head of President Roosevelt's farm 

 life commission, which made a tour of the country last fall, 

 will accept a place on the program and participate in the dis- 

 cussions. 



Ex-Governor Alva Adams, of Colorado, has been invited 

 to give an address. Because of his wide knowledge of agri- 

 cultural and irrigation affairs it is believed that his words 

 will arouse much interest. 



