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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



and president of the Salt River VVaterusers' Association. 

 The last named comprises about 1,600 landowners, and 

 includes 210,000 acres of land in the Salt River valley. 

 pledged to reimburse the government for seven million 

 dollars now being expended on the Salt River reclama- 

 tion project. 



For seven years Mr. Fowler was a member of the 

 executive committee of the National Irrigation Associa- 

 tion, and at the same time member of the executive com- 



SECRETARY HOOKER IS A VETERAN. 



Arthur Hooker, secretary of the Eighteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress is, by virtue of that position, a 

 member of the Board of Governors, of which board he 

 holds the position of secretary. He is also secretary of 

 the executive committee of the Eighteenth Congress. 



Mr. Hooker was elected secretary of the congress at 

 the meeting in Spokane last August. Previous to that 

 lime he was secretary of the Spokane Board of Control. 



(1) Arthur Hooker. Spokane. Secretary Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress. 



(2) Benjamin A. Fowler, Phoenix, Ariz. President Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress. 



(3) R. Insinger. Spokane. Chairman of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of the Eighteenth Irrigation Congress. 



(4) P. J. Dugan, Pueblo. Chairman of the Board of Control. 



(5) R. H. Faxon, Garden City, Kansas. Secretary of the Board of 



Publicity. 



(6) A. G. Watson. Pueblo. Vice-Chairman, Board of Control, Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress. 



(7) Mineral Palace. Pueblo, Colo. Where the Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress will be held from 



of Control Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress, and its Director of 



om September 26 to 30, 1910. 



mittce of the National Irrigation Congress. In September, 

 1907, he was elected secretary of the Sixteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress, and reelected secretary of the Seven- 

 teenth Congress. At Spokane, in August, 1909, he was 

 elected president of the congress. 



Mr. Fowler owns a large ranch nine miles from 

 Phoenix, and has other large landed interests in the Salt 

 River valley. His residence, however, is at Phoenix. 



With Mrs. Hooker, he has now taken up his residence 

 in Pueblo, and will devote his experience and training at 

 previous congresses to the success of the Eighteenth 

 Congress. 



By education, M.r. Hooker is well fitted for the posi- 

 tion of secretary of the National Irrigation Congress. He 

 received the degree of bachelor of science in engineering 

 at the Washburn State College, class of 1907. 



