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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Fourteenth National Irrigation Congress. 



Program of the Forthcoming Convention at Boise. 



Arrangements for the Fourteenth National Irriga- 

 tion Congress, which convenes in Boise, Idaho, Septem- 

 ber 3 to 8, inclusive, are being made on a scale commen- 

 surate with its importance and the record-breaking num- 

 ber of delegates which will attend the congress. 



A board of control of local arrangements has been 

 appointed, consisting of the following well-known citi- 

 zens of Boise: John McMillan, chairman; General 

 Joseph Perrault, secretary; C. C. Anderson, treasurer; 

 C. B. Hurtt, Bishop A. J. Glorieux, Leo P. Grunbaum, 

 J. H. Hutchinson, Edgar Wilson, Montie B. Gwinn and 

 W. T. Booth. The board is providing a fund of $20,000 

 with which to entertain the congress, and many attrac- 



Hon. Geo. C. Pardee. 

 President of the National Irrigation Congress. 



tive features will be carried out for the instruction and 

 entertainment of the delegates. 



The sessions of the congress will be held at River- 

 side Park, Boise's beautiful recreation ground, located 

 on the banks of Boise River, four blocks from the rail- 

 road depot, and reached by the electric street car service. 

 The general meetings will be held in the Park theater, 

 a large structure built for summer entertainments. The 

 building is an ideal place for such a convention. Its 

 ceilings are high, the sides are open, affording splendid 

 ventilation, the acoustic properties are perfect, and 

 with a seating capacity for 2,200 gives ample room for 

 the delegates and visitors in a* place that will be cool, 

 comfortable and convenient. 



A two-story pavilion, 125 by 175 feet, adjoins the 

 theater. The lower floor will be used for a cafe during 

 the congress and on the floor above an industrial exhibit 

 and information bureau showing the resources of the 

 State will be conducted. A mineral displav showing 

 the products of the mines of the State and a compre- 

 hensive exhibit of Idaho's vast lumbering industries, 

 the development of which will provide a home market 



for all that can ever be produced when all of the ir- 

 rigable lands of this section of the northwest have been 

 reclaimed. Idaho contains 20,000,000 acres of the best 

 white pine, fir, tamarack, cedar and other valuable 

 timber, in the development of which many mills are 

 being put in operation. Idaho has the largest mineral 

 territory of any State in the Union, and though but 

 scarcely explored, the State is producing one-half the 

 lead output of the United States. 



In a building to be erected for that purpose in 

 the park grounds an exposition of the products of irriga- 

 tion will be conducted, in which sixteen states and terri- 

 tories comprising the irrigated area will compete for 



Hon. Montie B. Gwinn, 



Chairman Executive Committee. National 



Irrigation Congress. 



numerous valuable premiums offered for the best state, 

 county, association and individual exhibits of fruits, 

 sugar beets, grains, grasses and other vegetable products. 

 This opportunity will be taken advantage of by the 

 semi-arid states in which to exploit the resources of 

 each, serving as an object lesson to the visitors to the 

 congress of the practical results of irrigation. 



Other arrangements made for the congress include 

 the Orpheum theater for the use of the division de- 

 voted to engineering. This is a new building located 

 near the park. Lantern slides will be used to illustrate 

 engineering problems in irrigation enterprises, and dis- 

 cussions will engage the attention of prominent engi- 

 neers of the government reclamation service, the asso- 

 ciation of State engineers, and other prominent irri- 

 gationists. Ample arrangements have been provided for 

 the committees on forestry, climatology, rural settlement 

 and other features of the congress. The program will 

 provide for general sessions of the congress during the 

 forenoons, the afternoons to be devoted to special sub- 

 jects outlined by the various divisions, in which the dele- 

 gates generally will take part. 



