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such a step. Its citizens have dupli- 

 cated the sum by private subscription. 

 Government scientists will be in attend- 

 ance and a number of high officials, in- 

 cluding the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 will deliver addresses. President Roose- 

 velt has endorsed the Ogden Congress 

 very warmly. But more than all, there 

 has been a more marked enthusiasm and 

 esprit de corps among the promoters of 

 the meeting than has been heretofore 

 displayed, and the zeal with which prep- 

 arations are being made and the care 

 for every detail is full warrant for an 

 excellent session. 



This convention touches on matters 

 of vital concern to the American nation, 

 for no question of national growth is 

 of more importance than this one of 

 internal expansion, the annexation of 

 arid America. Delegates will be pres- 

 ent from all states and territories and 

 the governors of several will also be 

 in attendance. The facts adduced from 

 such a meeting will have an important 

 bearing on the expenditure of the 

 $10,000,000 which has been appropri- 

 ated or set aside under the provisions of 

 the national irrigation act for the recla- 

 mation of the sixteen states and terri- 

 tories specified in that act. It is par- 

 ticularly appropriate that this great 

 bound in the irrigation spirit should 

 find its expression in Utah, the pioneer 

 state in irrigation science. 



First of all, the congress will be prac- 

 tical. It will draw its influences from 

 irrigation experts, practical farmers, 

 fruit growers, representatives from state 

 and national agricultural institutions, 

 engineers, foresters, press representa- 

 tives, business men, manufacturers, offi- 

 cials, and law-makers. The program 

 will include practical lessons in irriga- 

 tion and forestry, reports of experts, 

 application of provisions of the reclama- 

 tion act, state progress under the na- 

 tional act, views on the settlement of 

 legal complications, and the pertinent 

 and important theme of colonization. 

 Already the presence of the following 

 has been assured : Hon. James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture ; Senator W. 

 A. Clark, President of the Congress ; 

 Gifford Pinchot, Forester, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ; F. H. Newell, 



Chief Engineer, U. S. Reclamation 

 Service ; Charles D. Walcott, Director, 

 U. S. Geological Survey ; George H. 

 Maxwell, Executive Chairman of The 

 National Irrigation Association, and a 

 number of, others whose interest in for- 

 est and irrigation matters is well known. 

 Newspaper correspondents representing 

 the important papers of the country 

 have been provided for in a special ex- 

 cursion from Washington, and their 

 accounts of the meeting and of the irri- 

 gated country, through which a care- 

 fully arranged itinerary will take them, 

 will be of great benefit in spreading the 

 tenets of the irrigation faith throughout 

 the country. 



To sum up, it may be said that the 

 wish expressed by President Roosevelt 

 in his address endorsing the Congress, 

 which was delivered in Ogden during 

 his recent western tour, will be more 

 than realized. He said : 



"I am delighted that the National 

 Irrigation Congress is to be held here 

 next fall, and I congratulate the State 

 of Utah upon the fact that its legislat- 

 ure was the first ever to pass an appro- 

 priation for such a congress. There 

 can be nothing of greater importance to 

 the welfare and growth of this country 

 during the half century that is opening 

 than this question of irrigation. . . 

 I most earnestly hope that you and all 

 the other states in interest will push and 

 will in every way endeavor to make the 

 meeting of the Irrigation Congress here 

 in Ogden a thorough success ; and I say 

 that not merely in the interest of the 

 states which are to be benefited by irri- 

 gation, but in the interests of the Union, 

 I want to see that Congress a success ; 

 I want to see the work of irrigation 

 made the greatest possible success." 



In addition to the Irrigation Congress 

 there will be held at the same time, in 

 Ogden, an AridStates'Fruit Exhibit with 

 the general features of a fair, at which 

 the usual attractions will be present. 

 This exhibit will have an added interest 

 from the number and value of the prizes 

 offered, amongwhichwillbeloving-cups, 

 gold and silver medals, and cash prizes. 

 Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, has 

 offered a $500 loving-cup for the finest 

 exhibit of fresh fruits grown under irri- 



