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August 10 Afternoon. 



Parade of progress, showing the transformation of the Northwest 

 from semi-savagery to civilization, by a series of district floats and 

 mounted men and marchers. 



Tuesday Evening, August 10. 

 Good Roads. 



Address Samuel Hill, president of the Washington State Good Roads 



Association. 

 Address Samuel Lancaster, highway expert, illustrated by stereopticon 



views. 

 Banquet. 



Wednesday Morning, August 11. 

 The Congress and Its Work. 



Address Hon. Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior. 



Address "The Conquest of the Wilderness," U. S. Senator Francis G. 

 Newlands of Nevada. 



Address Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Railway 

 Company. 



Address "Ultimate Ideals," George H. Maxwell of Chicago. 



Address "The Message of the West to the East," F. H. Griswold of 

 Chicago, assistant secretary seventeenth National Irrigation Con- 

 gress. 



Address "What Has Become of the Great American Desert?" Charles 

 W. Mott, general emigration agent of the Northern Pacific Railway 

 Company. 



Wednesday Afternoon, August 11. 

 Legislation. 



Address Congressman William A. Reeder of Kansas. 

 Address "The Development of Idaho under the Carey Act," F. R. 

 Gooding, ex-governor of Idaho. 



Thursday Afternoon, August 12. 

 Reclamation Irrigation. 



Address U. S. Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington. 



Address "Irrigation from the National Point of View," U. S. Senator 



Thomas Carter of Montana. 

 Address "Pumping for Irrigation," R. H. Thompson, city engineer, 



Seattle. 

 Address "Irrigation and Irrigation Development in Canada," J. S. 



Dennis, assistant to second vice-president Canadian Pacific Railway 



Company. 

 Address Hon. John L. Wilson, former United States Senator from 



Washington. 



Parade and countermarch of the industrial and irrigation army, 

 with 10,000 uniformed men in line. The official emblem of the Con- 

 gress, showing science bidding the desert drink, will be featured on an 

 elaborate float. 



Thursday Evening, August 12. 

 Home Building. 



Stereopticon Lecture C. J. Blanchard, statistician U. S. Reclamation 



Service. 

 Address "The United Pacific States," Rufus P. Jennings, chairman 



of the California promotion committee. 

 Banquets. 



Friday Morning, August 13. 

 Deep Waterways. 



Addres? "General Purposes of the Irrigation Congress," U. S. Senator 

 Weldon B. Heyburn of Idaho. 



Address Hon. Joseph E. Ransdall of Louisiana, U. S. House of Rep- 

 resentatives, president National Rivers and Harbors Congress. 



Address W. K. Kavanaugh, president of the Lakes-to-Gulf Deep 

 Waterways Association. 



One of the Substantial Structures at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 



Address "Some Fundamental Principles of the Irrigation Law," Clar- 

 ence Johnston, state engineer of Wyoming. 



Address Samuel H. Lea, state engineer of South Dakota. 



Address John H. Lewis, state engineer of Oregon. 



Address "Fundamental Principles Underlying Water Rights," Morris 

 Bien, U. S. Reclamation Service. 



Wednesday Evening, August 11. 



Illuminated parade of progress, representing various periods in the 

 Northwest, from 1805 to 1909. Indians from reservations and districts 

 in the Pacific and western states will join in the demonstration. 



Thursday Morning, August 12. 

 Soil Utilization. 



Address Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Address "Apples and Alfalfa," Hon. Alva Adams, ex-governor of 

 Colorado. 



Address "Scope and Purpose of the Irrigation Investigations of the 

 U. S. Office of Experiment Stations," Dr. A. C. True, director of 

 the office of experiment stations. 



Address "The Proper Use of Water," Prof. Samuel Fortier, chief of 

 irrigation investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Address "Irrigation in Washington," O. L. Waller, irrigation expert 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Address "Home-Building as Encouraged by Dry Farming," repre- 

 sentative of the Dry Farming Congress. 



Address "Deep Waterways for the Inland Empire," Prof. W. D. 



Lyman, Whitman College. 



Address "Drainage as a National Problem," U. S. Senator Moses E. 

 Clapp of Minnesota. 



Friday Afternoon, August 13. 

 Governor's Day. 



Address Governor Hay of Washington. 

 Address Governor Brady of Idaho. 

 Address Governor Johnson of Minnesota. 

 Address Governor Gilchrist of Florida. 



Saturday Morning, August 14. 

 President's Day. 



Address His Excellency the President. 



Address "Conservation," E. H. Libby, president of the Washington 



Conservation Association. 

 Address P. S. Senator J. M. Dixon of Montana. 



Saturday Afternoon, August 14. 

 Business Meeting. 



Report of committee on permanent organization. 



Election of officers. 



Selection of next place of meeting. 



Adjournment. 



