I902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



357 



serious fire of the month was reported 

 as having occurred in the Greenhorn 

 Mountains, about thirty miles from 

 Walsenburg. 



Forest fires are reported from the 

 AVallapai Mountains, New Mexico; also 



near Boise City, Idaho; in the neigh- 

 borhood of Gadsen, Alabama, and City 

 Creek Canyon, near Salt I^ake City, 

 Utah. There have been a number of 

 destructive forest fires in the vicinity of 

 Ymir, Vancouver, B. C. 



THE TENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 



T 



WILL BE HELD AT COLORADO SPRINGS OCTOBER 6-9. 



HE official call for the Tenth An- the arid region, requesting them to 

 nual Irrigation Congress, to be make known the holding of the Irriga- 

 tion Congress at Colorado Springs in 

 October. 



It is planned to devote an entire day 

 to the discussion of the national irriga- 

 tion act, its operations and possibilities. 

 Forestry will have a prominent place on 

 the program, and the question of colo- 



held at Colorado Springs, Colo. , October 

 6 to 9, has been issued. Preparations 

 for the meeting are going vigorousl}- 

 forward. Mr. C. E. Wantland, chairman 

 of the executive connnittee of the con- 

 gress, and Hon. F. C. Goudy, a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee of the 

 congress for Colorado, 

 both of Denver, and 

 Secretary McClurg, of ' 



the Colorado Springs 

 chamber of commerce, 

 who is chairman of the 

 committee on local ar- 

 rangements, are now 

 devoting the greater 

 part of their time to the 

 necessary perparatory 

 work. 



While it cannot be 

 promised that President 

 Roosevelt will attend 

 the congress in person, 

 it is understood that he 

 will prepare an address 

 to be read before the 

 delegates. 



It is likely that a large 

 attendance will be pres- 

 ent, and all railroads in 

 the Western Passenger Association and 

 in the Transcontinental Passenger Asso- 

 ciation have made rates of one-half fare, 

 plus $2, for the round trip from all 

 points in this territory. These special- 



VIKW til' THlv RuCKV MOLXTAINS NE.\R COLORADO SPRINGS. 



nization will also come in for close at- 

 tention. Many of the leading irrigation 

 experts of the country will be on hand 

 to take part in the discussion. All the 



Senators and Representatives of the 

 rate tickets will be good returning from states and territories in the arid region 



Colorado Springs up to October 3 1 , 



have especially been invited to be pres- 



Letters have been sent by the execu- ent and take part in the proceedings of 



tive committee to all of the leading the congress, 

 papers of the sixteen western states di- The official call requests governors, 



rectly interested in the reclamation of mayors, county commissioners, cham- 



