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the board of control last year, and who is one of the really 

 big men of the Pacific-Northwest. 



The first vice-president is R. E. Twitchell of East Las 

 Vegas, New Mexico, who was secretary of the board of 

 control at Albuquerque two years ago and later third vice- 

 president. He is one of the foremost men of the great 

 Southwest, and an active worker 



The second vice-president is Major R. W. Young of 

 Salt Lake, long in the cong-ess work, often chairman of 



S. C., commissioner of agriculture, etc., of his state, and 

 who won his spurs by interesting and taking to Spokane 

 last year twenty-six delegates from his state in a special 

 car. 



The foreign secretary of the congress, who has done 

 effective work for the past three years, is Dr. E. McQueen 

 Gray of Albuquerque, N. M., president of the University 

 of New Mexico, and a noted scholar, linguist, and son of a 

 former diplomat. 



OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 



1. Arthur Hooker, Spokane, Wash., Secretary 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



2. Benjamin A. Fowler, Phoenix, Ariz., President 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



3. R. Insinger, Spokane, Wash., Chairman Board of Governors and "Executive Committee of the 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



4. P. J. Dugan, Pueblo, Colo., Chairman of the Board of Control, 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



5. R. H. Faxon, Garden City, Kan., Secretary of the Board of Control and its Director of Publicity, 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



6. A. G. Watson, Pueblo, Colo., Vice-Chairman Board of Control, 18th National Irrigation Congress. 



7. Mineral Palace, Pueblo, Colo., Where the 18th National Irrigation Congress Will Be Held, from September 26th to 30th. 



the committee on resolutions, and who was a delegate 

 as a very young man at the first congress held in his home 

 city in 1890. 



The third vice-president is L. Newman of Havre, 

 Mont. 



The fourth vice-president is Colonel F. VV. Fleming of 

 Kansas City, prominent in the big work of the West. 



The fifth vice-president is E. J. Watson of Columbia, 



Enough has been said of the character of the location 

 for the next congress, with its significant facts as to irri- 

 gation, and of the personnel of the officers of the congress, 

 to insure and set down as certain the fact that the congress 

 is in good hands and well chosen as to place. 



Only one month ago, the board of governors of the 

 congress met at Pueblo in a 4-day session, and thoroughly 

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