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tabernacle while the official headquarters of the officers 

 and board of governors of the Congress will be at the 

 Hotel Utah across the street. A reception and ball for 

 delegates will be given Thursday evening, October 3. 



The date for the Congress, September 30 to October 

 3, has been set to coincide with the Utah State Fair, whose 

 dates are September 30 to October 5. The semi-annual 

 conference of the Mormon church will open the day after 

 the Congress adjourns. In arranging for the mammoth 

 exhibit of products of irrigated farms of the West, the 

 exhibits committee of the Congress has the full co- 

 operation of the Utah State Fair board and the Congress 

 exhibits will be shown in connection with the state fair. 

 In this line, the interesting features of the state fair 

 program will be added attractions to delegates and visitors 

 to the Congress. 



Already known as "The Center of the Solid West," 

 Salt Lake and its immediate surroundings offer attrac- 

 tions aside from the special entertainment program that 

 will make a visit of ten days or longer one of the most 

 pleasant features of any western trip. Following the 

 sessions of the Congress the visitor may take his choice 



The exhibit features of the Congress will be shown in 

 connection with the Utah State Fair and arrangements 

 for this part of the Congress have been made in coopera- 

 tion with the state fair board. The fair grounds are lo- 

 cated nine blocks .west of the meeting place of the Cbn^ 

 gress and street cars for the fair grounds pass the 

 Temple Block. 



Fallowing is a list of the principal hotels of the city: 



HOTELS OF SALT LAKE CITY 



(European Plan. Cafe Service) 

 (Rates $1.00 to $3.00 a day, except the Utah, $1.50 and up) 



Utah Hotel Main and South Temple 



Cullen Hotel 33 West Second Soutli 



Wilson Hotel 28 East Second South 



Moxum Hotel State and Fourth South 



Semloh Hotel State and Second South 



Kenyon Hotel Main and Second South 



Grand Hotel Main and Fourth South 



Peery Hotel Third South and West Temple 



The personnel of the National Irrigation Congress 

 will be as follows: The officers of the Congress, the 





Views in Salt Lake City, Utah. 



between canyon resorts nestling amid the snow-clad peaks 

 of the Wasatch mountains or the great Salt Sea only a 

 few miles from the city. In the immediate vicinity of 

 the. city are numerous other pleasure resorts and amuse- 

 ment parks while side trips of a day's duration can be 

 made to the great mining and smelting camps nearby. 



In holding its twentieth session the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress returns to Salt Lake, the place of its birth 

 twenty-one years ago. The first session was held in 

 Agricultural Hall which has long since given way to the 

 march of progress and the twentieth session business 

 sessions will be held this year in Assembly Hall on the 

 famous Temple Block adjoining the business district of 

 Salt Lake. The opening session of the Congress, at which 

 the Irrigation Ode will be rendered, will be held at 10 

 o'clock on the morning of September 30 in the Taber- 

 nacle building, which has a seating capacity of nearly 10.000. 



The meeting place of the Congress is the center of 

 interest for tourists, across the street from the Hotel 

 Utah and within three blocks of all of the principal hotels 

 of the city. Street cars from all railway stations pass 

 the gates. 



President of the United States, the Vice President of the 

 United States, members of the Cabinet, members of the 

 United States Senate and House of Representatives, gov- 

 ernors of states and 'insular possessions of the United 

 States, members of federal, state and insular irrigation 

 water and conservation commissions, state engineers and 

 commissioners of agriculture and horticulture, the mayor 

 of each city having a population of more than one thou- 

 sand, executive committeemen, honorary vice presidents 

 and members of the board of control of the Congress, 

 chairmen of special and general committees, permanent 

 delegates and delegates appointed under the provisions of 

 the constitution. In addition to these delegates from 

 states, counties, cities and towns, associations and col- 

 leges, all foreign governments are invited to send repre- 

 sentatives to the Congress and the presence of visitors, 

 including ladies, is invited. 



Special railway rates and tourist fares will be on sale 

 on all railroad lines interested and delegates and visitors 

 will be able to procure tickets that will permit a liberal 

 Stop over at Salt Lake and allow for extensions to va- 

 rious points of interest in the West. 



