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From numerous letters received by the executive 

 committee this session of the congress will be the largest 

 attended and contain more men of great national promi- 

 nence than any of its predecessors. Vice-President Fair- 

 banks has already accepted an invitation and assured 

 the committee that he will be present and take part in 

 the sessions. President Eoosevelt has the matter under 

 consideration and will come to Boise should his con- 

 templated trip to San Francisco be made. 



Through the personal efforts of Governor Pardee, 

 president of the congress, governors of twenty-eight 

 States have been heard from, all of whom will be pres- 

 ent if public business will permit. Practically the en- 

 tire membership of the House and Senate committees 

 on irrigation and public lands are coming, and finan- 

 cial institutions in the East, interested in irrigation 



NOTES. 



The great railroad systems of the West are taking 

 greater interest in the session of the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress, to be held at Boise, Idaho, September 

 3 to 8, than any previous convention of that organiza- 

 tion, and to insure a large attendance will give the 

 most liberal rates ever offered to the West. Boise is 

 preparing to entertain 2,000 delegates and as many 

 more visitors who will take advantage of the opportu- 

 nity to study irrigation in a country where agriculture 

 has reached the highest state of perfection. 



Vice-President Fairbanks has formally accepted an 

 invitation to attend the Fourteenth National Irrigation 

 Congress, to be held at Boise, Idaho, and will be among 

 the distinguished guests of the Gem state on that occa- 



Interior of Riverside Park Theater, Boise, where sessions of Irrigation Congress will be held, Sfpt. 3d to 8th. Seating Capacity, 2,200. 



securities, will send representatives to the congress. 

 The eastern States will be more largely represented than 

 ever before and all the western States will have full 

 delgations. 



Boise is preparing to entertain 2,000 delegates at 

 the congress. In addition to ample hotel facilities the 

 citizens will open their homes to the guests, and the 

 sleeping cars bringing the visitors will remain on the 

 side tracks for use of the delegates during the congress. 



After the sessions of the congress have been com- 

 pleted the delegates will be taken in special trains to 

 the various irrigated sections of the State, where prac- 

 tical demonstrations will be given of what is being ac- 

 complished in reclaiming the desert lands. The people 

 in the different sections to be visited are planning the 

 entertainment of the visitors, and nothing will be left 

 undone in the way of entertaining and instructing the 

 delegates to the fourteenth congress. 



sion. In accepting the invitation the vice-president 

 wrote as follows: "I appreciate the cordiality of your 

 invitation, and shall arrange to be with you. The sub- 

 ject of irrigation is one that has long -engaged my in- 

 terest. I am in thorough sympathy with every effort 

 made to reclaim the arid and semi-arid lands for culti- 

 vation and settlement." 



The forthcoming congress will be in the nature of an 

 exposition of the resources of the Northwest. In addi- 

 tion to the exhibit of grains, grasses, fruits and sugar 

 beets, there will be an extensive display of lumbering, 

 as well as an exploitation of the unlimited water power 



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