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one year, or until the second year's crops are ready for 

 market he may go west with safety. Perhaps he may 

 be resourceful enough to start with less money, but it is 

 a dangerous venture for a man who has a family of five 

 dependent upon him. 



His story illustrates clearly the ambition of thou- 

 sands of others, who feel that they are being held down 

 by conditions beyond their control. His salary, while 

 ample to insure a respectable living for the family, is 

 not great enough to allow him to lay up a sufficient sum 

 to make him independent in later years. It is also true 

 that some of the most successful men in the west today 

 went into that county in a "dead broke" condition, and 

 have done better than would have been possible had 

 they been well supplied with money. 



Necessity makes a man inventive. It teaches him 

 to study further into' the future, and in wider scope, 

 than if he has sufficient means to live comfortably for 

 a given time; but necessity also frequently works a 

 hardship on other members of the family. This is not 

 a condition to be desired by the average parent. A man 

 may go hungry himself, but he dislikes to see his chil- 

 dren or relatives suffer. 



We would say to the professor, in all liking, to 

 wait until he has sufficient funds to insure a reasonably 

 comfortable living for at least one year. The call of 

 the west is strong, but it lures to pitfalls unless reason- 

 able precautions are observed. 



p . . With the various committees working in 



Solves harmony and along practical and well 



Congress organized lines, it can be predicted at this 

 Problem. time that the Eighteenth National Irriga- 

 tion Congress will excell all others in both point of 

 attendance and importance to the irrigation world. 

 Under the able direction of Director of Publicity R. H. 

 Faxon, the next congress is already being widely adver- 

 tised. It can be foretold that Mr. Faxon's campaign 

 will gather in strength with each succeeding month, 

 and that the remote corners of the country will be 

 awakened to the recognition of the Eighteenth Congress 

 as a movement of national scope and importance. 



Refusing to travel in the beaten ways of former 

 congresses, the Board of Control has planned a some- 

 what unique but nevertheless successful method of 

 soliciting funds to defray running expenses. Each 

 county in Colorado is solicited for a contribution to the 

 fund with the understanding that such donation will 

 insure space near the convention hall for a display of 

 the county's products. An auditorium will be set aside 

 where counties may exploit their products through lec- 

 tures or demonstrations. Mr. Watson, vice chairman of 

 the board, is now making a trip through the state in 

 the interest of this plan, and his reports indicate ex- 

 cellent success. He is of the opinion that the major 



portion of the $50,000 needed for expenses may easily 

 he raised in this manner. 



There will be a great opportunity, during the time 

 of the show, to bring visitors from remote sections in 

 contact with some of the large irrigation projects along 

 the Arkansas River, and at other points adjacent to 

 Pueblo. Excursion trains will be run for the benefit of 

 the delegates to the more important points, as well as 

 to some of the scenic resorts nearby, including Pike's 

 Peak, Manitou, the Garden of the Gods and the Royal 

 Gorge. 



In a recent article in the Denver Times 

 Beaman 



Scores Judge Beaman, of Denver, declares thai, 



Conservation until the present time nothing has been 

 Congresses, done at any conservation meeting any- 

 where that a meeting of coyotes could not do 

 that is, howl. The judge says that neither he nor 

 others are looking for advice as to how to run their 

 business, and that if they were they would not apply 

 to members of the conservation committees, as it is 

 obvious that the information there gained would be im- 

 practicable. In explanation of his attack upon the 

 present status of the conservation movement, the judge 

 says, among other things, that nothing has been done 

 at any conservation meeting held in Colorado, or else- 

 where, that is of sufficient importance to attract the at- 

 tention of thinking people, nor does he believe effective 

 work will ever come from those now engaged in the 

 movement, or by the methods pursued. 



He states that not long ago Professor Eliot, Presi- 

 dent of the National Conservation Commission, declared 

 that the Alaska coal, which he estimated at 15,000,000,- 

 000 tons, was the future coal supply of the nation. The 

 judge shows that the Government Geological Survey 

 ports, for 1907-1908, prove that in the Grand Mesa, 

 Colorado, alone there are 20,000,000,000 tons of coal, 

 and that in the whole state of Colorado 600,000,000,000, 

 or forty times what Professor Eliot credits to Ala 

 and that in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, 1 

 are 2,200,000,000,000 tons. The same report gives the 

 annual coal consumption of the United States at 500,- 

 000,000 tons. Judge Beaman concludes that, discount- 

 ing our supply 50 per cent, we have enough, outside of 

 Alaska, to last 1,100 years, and it is reasonably certain 

 that long before that we will be getting our heat and 

 power from other and cheaper sources. 



The fact of the matter is that the conservation 

 movement as engineered was intended simply to 

 strengthen the position of the former dictator of forest 

 and land conditions throughout the west. He hoped to 

 so strengthen himself that his advancement to the Sec- 

 retaryship of Agriculture would be an easy matter. As 

 is well known, however, he has stubbed his toe. 



