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OFFICIAL CALL 



Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress 



To the People of the United States, Greeting: 



The Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress will be held in Sacramento, California, September 

 2-7, inclusive, 1907. 



The four great objects of the Congress are to "save the forests, store the floods, reclaim the 

 deserts and make homes on the land." 



All who are interested in the achievement of these objects or any of them are invited to attend 

 the Congress, and, by participating in its deliberations, contribute to a wise direction of national 

 policies and development of practical methods of conserving and developing tihe greait natural 

 resources of the country, thereby insuring a greater stability of prosperous conditions, extending the 

 habitable area, increasing the products of the land, and increasing internal trade and commerce. 



National and State officials, irrigation and forestry experts, engineers, farmers and irrigators, 

 manufacturers, professional and business men, industrial workers, editors and other representatives 

 of the press will attend the Congress. 



Simultaneously with the Irrigation Congress there will be held at Sacramento an Interstate 

 Exposition of Irrigated Land Products and Forest Products. The largest and finest list of trophies 

 and prizes ever offered at any event of this kind will stimulate competition. The exhibition of irri- 

 gated products will be the finest ever assembled anywhere in this country. 



The California State Fair will follow the Congress, opening on September 7th, when the joint 

 closing and opening ceremonies will be attended by a great irrigation celebration, the day closing with 

 a magnificent allegorical irrigation parade and electrical illumination. 



California affords many opportunities for the study of irrigation, irrigation practices and results, 

 irrigated crops of every kind and irrigation opportunities. Sacramento, the capital city of California, 

 where the Congress will be held, is situated near tlie center of the great valley which extends length- 

 wise through the state a distance of nearly five hundred miles and comprises approximately ten mil- 

 lion acres of fertile land. Colossal plans for the construction of storage dams and distributing canals 

 for the irrigation of this great plain are now being made bv engineers of the Reclamation Service 

 and money has been apportioned from the reclamation fund for the construction of an initial unit 

 of the great system contemplated. 



September is a season of fruits and grapes in California and visitors to the Congress will have 

 opportunities at Sacramento and throughout the state of enjoying the host that California orchards 

 and vineyards yield and of enjoying it fresh from tree and vine. 



The program of the Congress will consist of addresses by rnen eminent in this and other coun- 

 tries, carefully prepared papers by administrative officials and engineers of the National Reclamation 

 Service and Forest Service, with ample provision for volunteer speeches and discussion. 



The personnel of the National Irrigation Congress will be as follows : 



The permanent officers of the Congress. 



The President of the United States. 



The Vice-President of the United States. 



The Members of the Cabinet. 



Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. 



Governers of States, Territories and Insular Possessions of the United States. 



Members of State and Territorial Legislatures. 



Ambassadors, ministers, consuls and other representatives of foreign nations and colonies. 



Members of State, Territorial and Insular Irrigation and Forestry Commissions. 



Fifteen Delegates appointed by the Governor of each State or Territory. 



Ten Delegates appointed by the Mayor of each city of the United States of more than twenty- 

 five thousand population. 



Five Delegates appointed by the Mayor of e ach city in the United States of less than twenty- 

 five thousand population. 



Five Delegates appointed by each Board of County Commissioners or County Supervisors in the 

 United States. 



Five Delegates appointed by each State organization, having as its object the advancement of 

 the public welfare of that State. 



Five Delegates appointed by each State Irrigation, Forestry, Agricultural or Horticultural So- 

 ciety or Association. 



Five Delegates appointed by each National or Interstate Association interested in the objects 

 sought by the National Irrigation Congress. 



Five Delegates by each State Association of professional, commercial, fraternal, patriotic, re- 

 ligious or labor organizations. 



Two Delegates duly accredited by each Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Immigration 

 Society or Commercial Club. 



