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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



Please have full name and post-office 

 address of delegates mailed to Executive 

 Chairman, Twelfth National Irrigation 

 Congress, El Paso, Texas, that they may 

 receive special information, which will be 

 mailed to each delegate not later than 

 October 5, 1904. 



The work of the Congress has been so 

 greatly enlarged through the increased 

 interest in matters pertaining to irriga- 

 tion that the Executive Committee have 

 decided to systematize the work of the 

 next Congress according to the provis- 

 ions in articles 3 and 5 of our Constitu- 

 tion ; consequently the work of the 

 Twelfth Congress has been divided into 

 five sections. 



Each section will be conducted by a 

 chairman, who will be recognized as an 

 eminent authority in his line, which 

 insures a thorough exposition of the re- 

 spective subjects through the presenta- 

 tion of papers, addresses, and discussion 

 by the most eminent men interested in 

 forestry, irrigation, climatology, and 

 their correlated subjects. 



It is confidently predicted that the 

 coming Congress will be more highly 

 instructive and entertaining than any 

 Congress which has preceded it. 



El Paso, the \vestern metropolis of the 

 Lone Star State and on the border line 

 of Old Mexico, is making preparation 

 for the largest Congress, in point of at- 

 tendance, which we have ever held. 



A general committee of its ablest citi- 

 zens, supported by the unanimous senti- 

 ment of the city, is arranging a program 

 for the entertainment of the delegates 

 which would require too large a space to 

 print in this call, but is so unique in 

 character as to be interesting and enjoy- 

 able to all. 



A comprehensive exhibit of the pro 

 ducts of irrigation will be installed ad- 

 joining the great Convention Hall, espe- 

 cially constructed for this Congress. 



Irrigation in variqus phases will be 



shown, which will include mechanics 

 and electrical machinery and appliances. 



Ample hotel accommodations can be 

 assured to every delegate. 



Special railroad rates have been made 

 to apply from all parts of the United 

 States to this Congress, the rates being 

 the lowest ever made to any convention. 



All newspapers and other publica- 

 tions are earnestly requested to give 

 wide publicity to this official call and to 

 impress upon their readers the far- 

 reaching importance of this Congress. 



The vice-president and members of 

 the Executive Committee for each state 

 are urged to make the provisions of this 

 call as widely known as possible and 

 insure the largest possible delegation 

 from their respective states. 



Every state in the Union is vitally and 

 directly interested in the subjects to be 

 discussed in the coming Congress. 



In the various sections information 

 will be dispensed regarding the increas- 

 ing of production by irrigation in the 

 Atlantic states, as well as in the Pacific 

 section, forestry problems in New En- 

 gland and along the Appalachian chain, 

 as w r ell as along the Rockies and Sierras, 

 engineering applied to protect from the 

 devastation by floods, drainage of the 

 submerged areas, directing and con 

 ducting the water to its most beneficial 

 use, climatology, with special reference 

 to the service of the Weather Bureai 

 throughout the United States and Tura' 

 settlement, with special reference to the 

 disposition of the surplus man. 



THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



By C. B. BOOTHE, Chairman. 

 H. B. MAXSON, Secretary. 

 GEN'L COMMITTEE AT EL PASO 



By W. W. TURNEY, Chairman. 

 A. W. GIFFORD, Secretary. 

 . Approved : 



W. A. CLARK, 



President and e.\~-Officio Member 

 Executive Committee. 



