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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Five Thousand Delegates to Spokane Congress. 



Nearly Every State to Be Largely Represented Canada Will Send Officials 

 List of Speakers Includes Many Notables Program Is Announced. 



Bankers, railroad presidents, scientists, experts on reclama- 

 tion of arid and swamp lands, deep waterways, forestry, 

 good roads and homebuilding have places on the programs in 

 preparation for the National Irrigation Congress, at its ses- 

 sions in Spokane, August 9 to 14. R. Insinger, chairman of 

 the board of control says there will be from 4,500 to 5,000 

 accredited delegates from various parts of the United States 

 and representatives from Canada, Europe, the South American 

 republics, China and Japan. It is expected also that Presi- 

 dent Taft and several members of his cabinet will be in 

 attendance. 



Chief executives of 25 states and territories are to be pres- 

 ent on Governors' day, August 13, when Governor Hay of 

 Washington will preside at a joint meeting of the governors 

 and congressional representatives of the western states to 

 discuss ways and means of obtaining national and state legis- 

 lation to encourage the developement of the country anl con- 

 serve its national resources. 



There will be elaborate electrical illuminations in the 

 principal thoroughfares, where stacked crops of the districts 

 tributary to Spokane will be displayed in massed exhibits. 



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 the 

 flags of the nations 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 patri- 

 otic airs. This will be followed by the irrigation ode, sung 

 by a large chorus of trained singers, and state hymns by 

 school children. There will also be receptions, banquets, 

 theater parties and several excursions. 



Mr. Insinger feels assured of large delegations from Kan- 

 sas, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Colorado, the Dakotas, 

 Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Arizona, Nevada, California, 

 Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Canada will send delegations 

 and there will be representatives from eastern and middle 

 western and southern states, where the people are interested 

 chiefly in forestry, deep waterways, good roads, reclamation 

 of swamp land and home-building. 



"We have been assured the hearty co-operation and assist- 

 ance of the forestry and reclamation services, as well as the 

 department of agriculture itself," Mr. Insinger said, "and with 

 the natural activity of the people in the Northwest and in 

 other parts of the country, where irrigation is profitably and 

 successfully practiced, \ve expect to make a congress which 

 shall eclipse anything yet attempted by the association." 



The Spokane chamber of commerce has received advices 

 that the Chicago Association of Commerce will send its 

 "boosters" in a special train to capture the 1910 congress. 

 Pueblo, Colo., which has a claim by reason of stepping aside 

 for Spokane at Aubuquerque, N. M., last fall, will leave noth- 

 ing undone to land the meeting for its city, and it is announced 

 that the business men's association there will send two special 

 trains. The people of Charleston, S. C, believe that more 

 benefits would result by having the meeting in the South in 



1910 than by keeping it in the West, where irrigation is 

 practised extensively and is well known, and will have the 

 support of the southern states in their efforts to secure the 

 eighteenth session. 



The national officers of the congress for 1909 are : Presi- 

 dent, George E. Barstow, Barstow, Texas ; first vice-president, 

 H. D. Loveland, San Francisco ; second vice-president, R. E. 

 Twitchell, Las Vegas, N. M. ; third vice-president, I. D. 

 O'Donnell, Billings, Mont. ; secretary, B. A. Fowler, Phoenix, 

 Ariz. ; assistant secretary, F. H. Griswold, Chicago ; foreign 

 secretary, Rev. Dr. E. McQueen Gray. Carlsbad, N. M. 



The official program for the congress is as follows : 



Opening Day, Monday Morning, August 9. 



Music 14th U. S. Cavalry band, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. 



Call to Order R. Insinger, chairman board of control. 



Invocation Rev. Dr. Wm. Hindley, pastor Pilgrim Congregational 



Church. 



Music "The Star Spangled Banner," 14th U. S. Cavalry band. 

 Introduction of George Eames Barstow of Texas, president of the new 



Congress. 



"The Irrigation Ode," Spokane Choral Society, 350 voices. 

 Welcome to the State Governor Hay of Washington. 

 Welcome to the City Mayor Pratt of Spokane. 

 Response on behalf of the National Irrigation Congress, George E. 



Barstow, president. 

 Responses on behalf of governors of states, representatives of foreign 



nations and insular possessions. 



Monday Afternoon, August 9. 



-James J. Hill, chairman of the 

 ailway Company. 



board of directors Great 



Address- 

 Northern Rail 



Address "Irrigation by Private Enterprises," Dr. George C. Pardee, 

 ex-governor of California. 



Address "The National Irrigation Situation," F. H. Newell, director 

 U. S. Reclamation Service. 



Address Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



Address "The Irrigation Situation in the State of Washington," Dr. 

 Enoch A. Bryan, president of the Washington State College. 



Address Representative of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. 



Monday Evening, August 9. 



The board of control, assisted by ladies of Spokane, will tender a 

 reception to the officers and delegates of the National Irrigation Con- 

 gress, the governors of states, representatives of foreign nations and 

 other guests at the Masonic Temple. The occasion will be marked by 

 relaxation and good fellowship; it will be informal. The 14th U. S. 

 Cavalry band will be in attendance in the reception room and there 

 will be an orchestra in the ball room. 



Tuesday Morning, August 10. 

 Forestry Day. 



Address "Home Building for the Race," Gifford Pinchot, U. S. 

 Forester. 



Address "The Forests of Canada and Their Relation to the Water 

 Supply," R. E. Campbell, forestry branch Department of the In- 

 terior, Canada. 



Address "The Attitude of the Lumbermen Toward Forestry," George 

 S. Long. 



Address "Reforestation," E. T. Allen. U. S. District Forester. 



Address "The Relation of Forests to Water Flow," Bailey Willis, U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Tuesday Afternoon, August 10. 

 Water As a Resource. 



Address John Barrett, director of International Bureau of American 

 Republics. 



Address U. S. Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa. 



Address "Deep Waterways," Thomas S. Waring, editor The Evening 

 Post, Charleston, S. C. 



Address Dr. W. J. McGee, secretary of the Inland Waterways Com- 

 mission. 



Address "Deep Waterways for the Pacific Coast," J. N. Teal. Joint 



Conservation Committee. 

 Address N. W. Harris, Chicago. 



