THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA WANTS IRRIGATION 



Delegates From Six Counties Ask State to Assist Private 

 Irrigation Projects Government Will Help. 



Stirred to action by the partial failure of crops in the 

 past year and their consequent inability to place depend- 

 ence upon the rainfall, land owners in the northwestern 

 part of Oklahoma have framed an urgent appeal to United 

 States reclamation officials for the commencement of irri- 

 gation operations in that section of the state. 



Accredited delegates from several counties met at 

 Woodward during October and held a convention tha.t for 

 enthusiasm was characteristic of the west. Permanent 

 organization was formed, resolutions were adopted, and 

 in the spirit of positive action the convention framed a 

 request to the governor for a special session of the legis- 

 lature to provide proper irrigation laws and to assist in 

 the railroad and the industrial development of that part 

 of the state. It is predicted that because of peculiar po- 

 litical conditions in Oklahoma the special session will 

 be held. 



Aside from the accredited delegates there was a large 

 attendance of farmers and citizens who were vitally in- 

 terested in the projected work. It was pointed out, during 

 the three days' speechmaking, that the state has no de- 

 partment wherein affairs connected with irrigation might 

 be investigated or controlled. The convention promptly 

 framed a petition to the governor asking that a state 

 irrigation engineer be appointed and that he be given 

 an able staff of assistants. 



Permanent officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, William Little of Harper county; vice-presidents, 

 L. B. Lane of Woodward county, S. L. Lumptin of Ellis 

 county, S. E. Thompson of Cimarron county, E. Lee 

 Adams of Harper county and Hugh M. Bixby of Beaver 

 county; secretary, E. L. Roberts of Texas county; treas- 

 urer, C. A. Manns of Ellis county; delegate to the legis- 

 lature, R. B. Quinn of Texas county. 



After the framing of resolutions requesting early ac- 

 tion by the government toward the construction of irri- 

 gation systems, and petitioning the legislature to pass 

 laws under which private irrigators may outline and pros- 

 ecute their operations, the Northwestern Oklahoma Irri- 

 gation Congress, as the organization is known, adjourned 

 to meet on March 10, 1910. 



Among the delegates registered at Woodward during 

 the convention were the following: 



Cimarron county: W. T. Cleaton, Boise City; Wil- 

 liam H. Guy, Kenton; H. E. Thompson, Garrett. 



Ellis county: James Shaw, Chancy; I. O. McCal- 

 laugh, Gage; George B. Johnson, Supply. 



Harper county: Oscar H. Jones, Lelton; O. G. Har- 

 per, Buffalo; E. J. Dick, Buffalo; J. R. Litz, Supply; C. W. 

 Simmonds, Buffalo; A. S. Allison, Buffalo; E. Lee Adams, 

 Buffalo; C. L. Torrance, Yelton; James Reckutt, Yelton; 

 Sam Cooper, Kibby; G. B. Carpenter, Willard; Ed James, 

 Yelton; E. B. Williams, Buffalo; J. A. Madison, Buffalo; 

 J. E. Cooper, Kibby; L. T. Littrell, Buffalo; Sid Scovel, 

 Fern; B. M. Thurman, Fern. 



Texas county: W. L. Roberts, J. S. Fisher, P. M. 

 Hayne, Texhoma; John F. Allison, Texhoma; R. B. Quinn, 

 L. B. Snead, C. E. Hunter, J. J. Flannigan, F. M. Bathao, 

 E. J. Earl, J. L. Gleason. J. Breslin, J. W. Harris, J. H. 

 Langston. all of Guymon. 



Roger C. Dahlhjelm 



President of Dahlhjelm Company. 



We are presenting in this issue a half-tone likeness of 

 Mr. Roger C. Dahlhjelm, a well known irrigation pro- 

 motor in the northwest. Mr. Dahlhjelm is a very young 

 man to have achieved such great success as has come to 

 him, being now twenty-nine years of age. His first ex- 

 perience in the promotion of irrigation enterprises was in 

 1907 when he associated himself with Mr. Lewson Bassett, 

 of the Columbian Canal Company, who is a well known 

 capitalist of the Pacific Northwest. In that year Mr. 

 Dahlhjelm came east to exploit the holdings of that com- 

 pany, opening his first eastern land office in the spring of 

 1908. His success was immediate and his company sold 

 within one year over $600,000 worth of irrigated land in 

 the Columbia River Valley of Washington. During the 



R. C. Dahlhjelm. 



past summer Mr. Dahlhjelm became associated with the 

 Lewiston Land and Water Company of Lewiston, Idaho, 

 and placed on the eastern market their holdings, which is 

 considered among those who know, one of the highest 

 class orchard tracts in America, and he has been very suc- 

 cessful in this new venture. 



Mr. Dahlhjelm's chain of offices are in most of the 

 leading cities of the central and western states, comprising 

 Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Winnepeg, Minneapolis, St. 

 Paul, Des Moines, Ortonville, Duluth, Dunkirk, Lewiston, 

 Clarkston, Springfield, Illinois; Frankfort, Kentucky, and 

 Chicago. 



The Chicago office of this company is located in the 

 Schiller building and is in charge of Mr. Richard S. Thain. 

 The Dahlhjelm Company, as the new firm is known, will 

 have an elaborate exhibit of the products of the Lewiston- 

 Clarkston district at the Land and Irrigation Exposition, 

 which is to be held in the Coliseum, November 20 to De- 

 cember 4. 



