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JOIN TO PROMOTE IRRIGATED LANDS 



Seventeen States Represented at Important Meeting Held at Salt Lake City. 



Showing unbounded enthusiasm and sturdiness of pur- 

 pose, delegates from seventeen irrigated states met at Salt 

 Lake City, April 4, and permanently organized the United 

 Exposition Association of Irrigated States, and adopted 

 resolutions affiliating the body with the National Farm 

 Land Congress of Chicago. 



The united association proposes to use its power in 

 every way possible to bring about all kinds of legitimate 

 publicity to the advancement of farming in the United 

 States, and particularly throughout the irrigated states. 



Upon the permanent organization of the association, 

 which was temporarily established during the United 

 States Land and Irrigation Exposition held at Chicago 

 last November, permanent officers were elected for the 

 forthcoming year. They are all men thoroughly familiar 

 with irrigation as well as the best means of securing pub- 

 licity, which means advancement for the farmer. 



united association had not been accorded right treatment 

 by the Chicago newspapers during the United states Land 

 and Irrigation Exposition. This was accounted for by the 

 fact that one daily paper in Chicago was backing the expo- 

 sition, and this caused the other newspapers to keep silent. 



A comprehensive speech was made by C. A. Walsh of 

 Chicago. He reviewed the history of the United States 

 Land and Irrigation Exposition, which had caused the 

 western farmers to think they were not getting what they 

 started for in exhibiting at the exposition namely, pub- 

 licity. 



He stated that he had started West in 1908 to get in 

 touch with western commercial organizations for the pur- 

 pose of organizing a body such as the present National 

 Farm and Irrigation Congress, and that it was not known 

 at that time that the Chicago publication contemplated 

 such a move. 



Main irrigation canal, Twin Falls North Side tract, showing new concrete lining. Width of canal at bottom, 65 feet. Perpendicular height of 



concrete walls, 9 feet. Milner dam in distance. 



The newly elected officers of the United Exposition 

 Association of Irrigated States are: 



President, C. J. Sinsell, Boise, Idaho. 



Secretary-treasurer, Reilly Atkinson, Boise, Idaho. 



First vice-president, H. M. Gilbert, North Yakima. 

 Wash. 



Vice-presidents, Prof. L. A. Merrill, Salt Lake; J. H. 

 Wilson, Hood River, Ore.; C. E. Edwards, San Francisco; 

 Dwight Woodruff, Hamilton, Mont.; B. C. Buffum, wor- 

 land, Wyo.; Lee Haney, Denver, Colo.; W. B. Henning, 

 Albuquerque, N. M.; R. L. McMillan, Dalhart. Tex.; R. C. 

 True, Reno, Nev., and John McMullin, Idaho Falls, Idaho. 



The convention was opened with the appointment of 

 committees necessary to permanent organization. Those 

 present were: C. M. Hill, president of the Southern Idaho 

 Commercial Clubs, headquarters in Twin Falls; C. J. Sin- 

 sell, temporarv president, Boise; Reilly Atkinson, tem- 

 porary secretary, Boise; J. H. Burns, Downey, Idaho; 

 G. H. Shellenberger, Boise; J. E. Taylor, Salt Lake; Prof. 

 E. D. Ball, State Experiment Station, Logan, Utah; Prof. 

 L. A. Merrill, Salt Lake, director State Farmers' Institute; 

 C. A. Walsh, Chicago; L. W. Johnson, Pocatello, Idaho; 

 W. H. Coffin, Downey, Idaho; W. E. Wheeler, Idaho 

 Falls, Idaho. 



During different speeches it was brought out that the 



Mr. Walsh presented two plans, which had been 

 adopted by the congress to secure the maximum of pub- 

 licity from the minimum of effort and expense; first, an 

 educational congress, without exposition features, which 

 could be conducted with no expense save the rent of an 

 auditorium, the entertainment features and the incidental 

 expenses of the organization; second, the same as the 

 first, with an added feature in the form of a special ex- 

 hibition feature, stocked by states and territories the ac- 

 tual produce to be exhibited, with data covering cost of 

 production, cost of land, freight rates, possible selling 

 prices, etc. 



This second plan was incorporated in the resolution 

 adopted by the United Exposition Association of Irrigated 

 States at a later meeting. The plan of Mr. Walsh, who is 

 secretary of the National Farm Land Congress, is to use 

 every news service, as well as various other syndicates 

 furnishing material for weekly, monthly and special Sun- 

 day edition papers. 



Reilly Atkinson spoke at some length, stating that 

 he thought it was the opinion of those present not to hold 

 an exposition themselves. He said that the United Asso- 

 ciation did not want to institute an exposition themselves, 

 but would welcome gladly an opportunity to compete with 

 other sections of the country m an exhibition of products. 



