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of tourists who visit the city each year and delegates to 

 the Congress will not fail to see and admire these at- 

 tractions. In early days these spots were perhaps rightly 

 regarded as the beginning and the end of the wonders 

 of the city from the standpoint of the tourist. Today they 

 may be the beginning of interest to the tourist and visitor 

 but the end is only measured by the time the visitor may 

 spend or by his appreciation, of scenes of artistic beauty 

 or features of industrial and commercial importance. 



Salt Lake City, with its far-famed temple has also 

 one of the finest, costliest and most artistic Catholic 

 cathedrals in the West and, besides the other interesting 

 and picturesque buildings of the Mormon church, Salt 

 Lake has scores of church buildings representing about 

 twenty other denominations of religious belief. Besides 

 the Great Salt Lake that marvel of nature whose waters 

 are nearly one-quarter salt the city has parks and play- 

 grounds for young and old at various locations through- 

 out the city and adjoining the corporate limits. Nearby 

 canyons offer scenic wonders regarded by many as potent 

 arguments in support of the "See America First" move- 

 ment even when compared with Switzerland's renowned 

 sights and the location of the city, surrounded by peaks 

 of massive grandeur and brilliant coloring is in itself 

 a sight worth miles of travel to view. Salt Lake has' the 

 University of Utah and the government reservation of 

 Fort Douglas adjoins. 



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PROGRAM 

 Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 



Final decision on all features of the regular program 

 for the Twentieth National Irrigation Congress to be held 

 September 30 to October 3, remains with the National 

 Executive Committee, who will meet at Salt Lake a few 

 days before the opening session and arrange the schedule 

 of speakers who will present the chief topics for dis- 

 cussion. A general outline of the program and amuse- 

 ment and entertainment features has been outlined by the 

 Utah board of control, however, and this, with the tenta- 

 tive outline approved by the National board of governors 

 at their last meeting, gives assurance that the program 

 will be one of the most interesting of the Congress. 



The chief subjects for discussion, which are included 

 by the principles which the National Irrigation Congress 

 advocates, will be as follows: 



Irrigation of the Great West. 



Storing of the Floods. 



Measurement of Streams. 



Scientific Investigation of Irrigation Projects. 



Proper Safeguarding of Irrigation Securities. 



Enactment of Proper Working and Uniform State 

 Irrigation Laws. 



Preservation of the Forests. 



Opportunity to Build New Homes. 



Heeding the Call of the Landless Man for the Man- 

 less Land. 



Elimination by Law of Fraud in Connection with the 

 Location and Sale of Land. 



Co-operative Effort of Government and State Immi- 

 gration Officials. 



Close Co-operation of State Engineers. 



The ablest speakers of this and other countries will 

 lead in the discussion of these and other topics and many 

 others will come prepared to take part in the free and 

 democratic exchange of views on questions of vital im- 

 portance to the agricultural development of the West. 



The first session of the Congress will open at the 

 famous Salt Lake tabernacle at 10 o'clock an the morn- 

 ing of September 30. This session will include ad- 

 dresses of welcome by Governor William Spry of Utah 

 and Samuel C. Park, mayor of Salt Lake, with responses 

 by officers of the Congress. The presentation of the 

 Queen of Irrigation attended by her maids of honor will 

 be another important feature of the opening session and 

 the Queen of Irrigation will formally open the Congress. 

 At this session the "Irrigation Ode." words by Mrs. Gil- 

 bert McClurg, music by Prof. ]. J. McClellan, will be 

 rendered by a chorus augmented from the tabernacle 

 choir and instrumental and vocal soloists of more than 

 local fame will add to the entertainment. 



On the evening of the opening day will take place a 

 grand parade and electrical pageant which will un- 

 doubtedly be one of the best of its kind ever seen in the. 

 West. This will be followed by a reception tendered 

 delegates and visitors at the Salt Lake Commercial Club. 



Morning and afternoon sessions of the Congress will 

 be held either in the tabernacle or the assembly hall ad- 

 joining. The program for the last day will include 

 formal inspection of the exhibits of irrigated farm 

 products and the awarding of a large list of prizes to 

 successful exhibitors, with a ball and reception to dele- 

 gates in the evening. 



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Officers Twentieth National Irrigation Congress. 



DEL NORTE, COLORADO. 



The town of Del Norte, located on the western side of 

 the San Luis Valley, is the county seat of Rio Grande 

 County and is situated on the banks of the Rio Grande Del 

 Norte. It has applied the principles of municipal owner- 

 ship to its electric light and water plant. Water for irri- 

 gation purposes is obtained from the Rio Grande River and 

 its tributaries, the rights being based upon the earliest 

 priorities. 



The potato has proven itself to be the most profitable 

 crop of the territory immediately tributary to Del Norte, 

 yielding from 100 to 500 bushels to the acre, but the range 

 alfalfa, small grain, vegetables, fruits, live stock, dairying and 

 poultry raising are important industries in the Del Norte 

 District. 



Two large storage reservoirs are being built on the Rio 

 Grande west of Del >}pre which will water thousands of 

 acres and more under irrigation. 



