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THE IKRIGATION AGE. 



in the state awaiting development. The congress will 

 be more largely composed of Eastern men who are com- 

 ing West to learn of the resources of the country than 

 the study of the one question of irrigation, for the sub- 

 ject of market ranks next to that of production. The 

 Boise congress will be a well organized information 

 bureau. 



Among the many interesting features is the exten- 

 sive exhibit of grains, grasses, fruits and sugar beets that 

 will be held. Every state and territory where agricul- 

 ture is carried on by means of irrigation will compete 

 for the numerous prizes and medals offered for state, 



The delegates will have an opportunity of see- 

 ing irrigation practiced in a practical way to a 

 better advantage than at any previous congress held. 

 Boise is surrounded by enterprises ranging from small 

 co-operative projects, owned by farmers themselves, to 

 the largest propositions of private capital and govern- 

 ment reclamation to be found in the country. The 

 session will be the largest and most interesting ever 

 held. 



Boise, Idaho, is well termed "the City Beautiful," 

 owing to the luxuriant growth of vegetation which 

 abounds throughout the city. Every lot in the city 



Riverside Park, Boise, where Irrigation Congress will beheld, Sept. 8d to 8th, 1906. 



county and individual exhibits. Idaho carried off the 

 honors at the Chicago, St. Louis and Portland exposi- 

 tions, and the Ogden Irrigation Congress, and the irri- 

 gated sections of the West have served notice that every 

 effort will be made to divide the prizes at the Boise 

 exhibit. 



Governor "George C. Pardee, of California, presi- 

 dent of the National Irrigation Congress, wrote a per- 

 sonal invitation to the governor of each state and terri- 

 tory of the United States, asking them to head the 

 delegations appointed to the congress. Favorable re- 

 plies have been received from a majority of the chief 

 executives, and those who can not come in person will 

 send personal representatives. A special train of Pull- 

 man cars will be made up at Omaha and Kansas City 

 to bring the governors and their parties through to 

 Boise. The Fourteenth Irrigation will be honored by 

 the presence of a larger number of state governors than 

 were assembled since the opening day at the World's 

 Fair at Chicago. 



is provided with a water right, which is utilized for 

 the purpose of growing trees, lawn grass, flowers and 

 ornamental shrubbery of all kinds. Delegates will be 

 confronted with object lessons in irrigation from all 

 sides. Texas has a great interest in the result of this 

 congress, for success is expected in the movement started 

 some time ago to have this state included in the benefits 

 derived from the national reclamation of arid lands. 

 It is expected that Texas will send the largest number 

 of delegates of any State represented. 



Texas contains a larger area of arid land than any 

 state in the Union. This would all be the most valu- 

 able and productive if reclaimed through irrigation. 

 At the meeting of the Irrigation Congress the atten- 

 tion of capitalists will be directed to the great field 

 for profitable investment to be found in this state, 

 through national reclamation and private enterprise. 



National Forest Eeserves, their creation, manage- 

 ment and control, and the policy adopted by the federal 

 government, are subjects that will receive great atten- 

 tion from prominent citizens interested in each side of 



