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or district sending a band of twenty or more 

 pieces was also received with favor in num- 

 erous places, and this, I believe, will result 

 in a large number of bands accompanying the 

 delegations from various parts of the coun- 

 try. I was informed at Missoula that its 

 delegation will travel in a special train, and 

 it is probable that similar arrangements will 

 be made in other parts of Montana." 



Missoula and the Bitter Root Valley will 

 send a delegation of 150 and a brass band to 

 participate in the parades. 



Utah Again in Line 



"Utah will be fully represented at the 

 National Irrigation Congress in Spokane, 

 August 9 to 14, notwithstanding the fact that 

 the Grand Army of the Republic will have 

 its national encampment in Salt Lake City 

 at the same time." 



United States Senator George Sutherland 

 of Utah, chairman of the committee on in- 

 dustrial expositions, conveys this information 

 in a letter written at Washington, D. C, to 

 R. Insinger, chairman of the local board of 

 control, adding: 



"The various irrigation companies and in- 

 dustrial associations are very much interested 

 in the coming congress and, notwithstanding 

 the counter-attraction at Salt Lake City, you 

 may expect the usual strong and enthusiastic 

 delegation which Utah always sends to the 

 National Irrigation Congress." 



Meeting of Mechanical Engineers 



The American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers will hold its spring meeting in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., May 4-7. Professional ses- 

 sions will be held at which papers on the 

 conveying of materials, gas power engineer- 

 ing, steam turbines, the specific volume of 

 saturated steam, oil well pumping and va- 

 rious other subjects will be discussed. 



At the reception, which will be held in the 

 New Willard Hotel, an address of welcome 

 will be made by the Hon. B. F. Macfarland, 

 president of the Board of District Commis- 

 sioners, with a response by Mr. Jesse M. 

 Smith, president of the society. 



Among the numerous other interesting 

 features of the meeting will be an illustrated 

 address by Mr. F. H. Newell, Director of the 

 United States Reclamation Service, on 

 Home-making in the Arid Regions. 



Deep Waterways Meeting 

 at Toronto 



The last meeting of the joint deep water- 

 ways commission of the United States and 

 Canada, at Toronto, this week, resulted in 



progress on the proposition to raise the 

 levels of the Great Lakes, or of the water that 

 stays in them. The plan is to dam the short 

 rivers that connect the lakes, but how much 

 of such work shall be done has not been de- 

 termined by the commission. In connection 

 with that large undertaking there are many 

 applications for power locations under con- 

 sideration by the commissioners of both 

 countries. Enterprising men are seeking loca- 

 tions in several places between the lakes and 

 on the St. Lawrence River in Canada. The 

 Canadian commissioners are favorable to 

 allowing all the use possible of the water that 

 is allowed to pass through the streams from 

 one lake to another and from the most east- 

 erly one to the St. Lawrence River. The 

 raising of the water level of the great lakes 

 is a matter of much importance to the sec- 

 tions of country in which they lie. It means 

 better facilities for shipping, and eventually 

 must have a good deal to do with the cut- 

 ting of canals out from the lakes for ship- 

 ping through the states of this country and 

 the provinces of the dominion. There is 

 plenty of water there, and no engineer has. 

 ever made an estimate of the tremendous 

 possibilities of that water when used to its 

 utmost for power and canal purposes. 



Iowa's Waterways Commission 



The state legislature of Iowa has autho- 

 rized the appointment of a commission to in- 

 vestigate the waterways of that state. The 

 commission is expected to concern itself with 

 the conservation interests of Iowa. 



A New Southern Waterway 



Advocates of waterway improvement and 

 shippers throughout the country are mani- 

 festing an interest in the projected improve- 

 ment of the Sabine-Neches Canal and the 

 Sabine and Neches Rivers so as to enable 

 ocean-going and other vessels to ply direct 

 to Orange and Beaumont, which offers sub- 

 stantial evidence of the pluck and progress- 

 iveness of the people. For several years the 

 possibilities of making Orange and Beaumont 

 important inland ports have been considered 

 by some of the foremost and far-sighted citi- 

 zens. As a result of an effort in this direc- 

 tion an appropriation was secured to dig a 

 canal along the west side of Sabine Lake and 

 connecting the mouths of the Sabine and 

 Neches River with the Gulf. This canal 

 is now 100 feet wide and about ten feet 

 deep, permitting only light-draft vessels to 

 pass through, but it has proved sufficient to- 

 suggest great possibilities for the opening of 

 another artery of commerce and the develop- 

 ment of the many and varied resources of 



