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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 



A Word of Greeting from Chairman Snow 



Greeting to Members and Delegates to the Twentieth Na- 

 tional Irrigation Congress by Chairman Snow of Utah 

 Board of Control: 



As Chairman of the Utah Board of Control for the 

 Twentieth Natipnal Irrigation Congress to be held in 

 Salt Lake City, September 30th to October 3, 1912, I ex- 

 tend to you a cordial greeting and welcome in which I 

 am sure all citizens of the State of Utah gladly join me. 

 Salt Lake City was the birthplace of the National 

 Irrigation Congress twenty-one years ago and here also 

 was the birthplace of Anglo-Saxon Irrigation sixty-three 

 years ago. Our city and state have therefore good reason 

 to be proud of the splendid accomplishments of the Con- 

 gress, and our hope and purpose is to make the coming 

 session the most interesting, impressive and instructive 

 thus far held. 



The State of Utah has provided many interesting fea- 

 tures of entertainment for the officers, delegates and 

 others who may come, while the officers of the Congress 

 have arranged a program which includes some of the 

 ablest speakers in the land, men of wide experience who 

 have given the various vital subjects to be discussed much 

 thought and in some instances a lifetime of endeavor. 

 For the consideration of these subjects we shall meet 

 as a body of practical agriculturists farmers if you 

 please who are seeking through the practical inter- 



change of ideas to advance the economic conditions of our 

 splendid country. Through organized effort we are also 

 seeking to bring about conditions which will result in a 

 more proper and thorough recognition from state and 

 federal governments of our several lines of individual 

 endeavor. 



The vast achievements in the line of irrigation de- 

 velopment constitute the history of the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress and the writing of this history is but well 

 commenced, therefore careful thought, well denned plans 

 and practical execution should be our constant aim. 



The earnest men who launched the work of the Con- 

 gress and participated in its early deliberations probably 

 had in the commencement but scant anticipation of the 

 wide and beneficent results which have, followed their 

 effort, and if in the light of the past twenty years' ex- 

 perience the Congress shall fail of further high and broad 

 accomplishments it will be due to a great and important 

 duty poorly done. The future work of the Congress 

 therefore calls for the practical and united effort of real 

 unselfish men. That the good work may be continued 

 with energy and determination and along well thought 

 out lines to the end that our country as a whole may 

 continue in prosperity, is my earnest wish. 



(Signed) GEORGE A. SNOW, 

 Chairman, Utah Board of Control, 



National Irrigation Congress. 



ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES 

 Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 



Entertainment features of the Twentieth National 

 Irrigation Congress will be provided by Salt Lake City 

 and the State of Utah on a scale that will make the Con- 

 gress memorable in the history of the organization. In 

 arranging the general plan of entertainment, however, the 

 committees under the direction of the Utah Board of 

 Control have sought first for appropriateness and the en- 

 tertainment and amusement features will by no means 

 be allowed to interfere with or detract from the broad 

 economic purposes of the Congress. 



One of the chief features for the opening of the Con- 

 gress will be the electrical pageant and illuminated 

 parade on the evening of September 30. All Utah will 

 participate in this feature and adjoining states will also 

 be represented by spectacular features in the line of 

 floats. Plans for the pageant feature of entertainment 

 outlined under direction of Douglas White, chairman of 

 the committee on parades, provide for a series of floats 

 which will represent with artistic grace and gorgeous 

 effect the history of irrigation on the American continent. 

 Then will follow a series of floats portraying with like ef- 

 fectiveness the practical results of the development of 

 various sections of the West as brought about through 

 the reclamation of agricultural lands. Variety and in- 

 genuity of design with the experience of expert builders 

 and electric illumination will combine in making the ex- 

 cellence of these features. 



In connection with the illuminated parade the Mighty 

 Wizard of the Wasatch will be escorted by a few hun- 

 dred of his wards and this great mystical personage will 

 deliver his message with proper pomp and ceremony. 

 The Wizard, who is supposed to dwell in the remote- 

 canyons of the Wasatch mountains surrounding Salt Lake, 

 has made only one or two state visits to the principality 



over which he exercises kindly supervision but these state 

 visits are incidents long to be remembered on acount of 

 their spectacular character. 



The presentation of the Queen of Irrigation wjth her 

 many maids of honor and attendants will be another fea- 

 ture of interest to those who know the beauty of the 

 womanhood of the West. The Queen will open formally 

 the first session of the Congress and, with her maids of 

 honor, she will assume a prominent place in all of the 

 events of the entertainment program. 



Presentation of the famous Irrigation Ode, written by 

 Mrs. Gilbert McClurg. under the personal direction of its 

 composer, Professor J. J. McClellan, will be made at the 

 'opening session of the Congress at the Salt Lake taber- 

 nacle. This ode will be sung by the noted tabernacle 

 choir, augmented to about 300 voices and accompanied 

 by a special orchestra of 25 pieces in addition to the 

 famous tabernacle organ one of the largest in the World. 

 The Irrigation Ode has been rendered at several sessions 

 of the Irrigation Congress since its composition by Pro- 

 fessor McClellan and the writing of the words by Mrs. 

 Gilbert McClurg, so that it has come to be known as the 

 official music of the Congress. The rendition this year 

 under the personal direction of its composer and under 

 conditions afforded by the place of meeting will result in 

 a rendition that is expected to excel any previous one. 



As outlined tentatively, the presentation of the Queen 

 of Irrigation and her maids of honor will take place at 

 10 o'clock on the morning of September ,30 at the formal 

 opening of the Twentieth Congress. Then the rendition 

 of the Irrigation Ode will follow, with a program that 

 will include musical numbers by soloists of more than 

 local fame. This session will be held in the tabernacle, 

 a building with acoustics that are unsurpassed and having 

 a seating capacity of nearly 10,000. Sessions of the Con- 

 gress occupied with the business of the Congress ex- 

 clusively will be held in the assembly hall adjoining the 



