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CHAIRMAN DERN: If there is nothing further, a motion to ad- 

 journ is in order. 



MR. MADSEN (Utah): I move we adjourn until ten o'clock tomorrow 

 morning. 



The motion was duly seconded, put to a vote, and declared carried, 

 and the Congress thereupon adjourned until ten o'clock Thursday morn- 

 ing. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1908. 



(Second Day.) 



MORNING SESSION. 



The Congress was called to order at ten o'clock a. m. by Hon. John 

 Dern, presiding. 



CHAIRMAN DERN: I want to impress upon the delegates present 

 that whenever gentlemen arise to address the convention, in order to keep 

 our records complete, that they must announce their names and the state 

 from which they hail distinctly. 



I now have the pleasure of introducing to you Professor Samuel 

 Fortier, chief of Irrigation Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. (Applause.) 



PROF. FORTIER: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: A few days 

 ago I read in one of the San Francisco dailies that Arthur R. Briggs, of 

 San Francisco, who is manager of the California State Board of Trade, 

 should represent that state at this convention. I was very much 

 pleased to hear of this because Mr. Briggs, as you know, is well in- 

 formed as to all kinds of farming, and it is a matter of deep regret that 

 he is not with you today to represent the great state of California. I 

 did not know at that time that I would have the honor of meeting with 

 you, and in preparing a few notes I took care that I would not get my 

 wheelbarrow in the way of Mr. Briggs' four-in-hand, so I have prepared 

 a paper which will not take more than fifteen minutes to read, confining 

 myself to the subject which has been announced. 



I am not sure, gentlemen, that I have any right to appear before you, 

 because there are many of you who know that my feeble efforts in seek- 

 ing to develop this western country which we all love so well, have besn 

 spent under the canal in connection with water supply and irrigation. It is 

 about seventeen years since I came from Denver to construct the Ogden 

 water works, and I had the honor of turning the water into the Bear River 

 canal in 1904. With L. D. Adams, of Ogden, who is now dead, and 

 Johnnie Charles, I located the only high reservoir you have in Utah to- 

 day — the East Canyon reservoir. So I cannot claim to be an arid, or 

 dry farmer; I am only a web-footed irrigator. (Laughter.) But I think 

 I can give you a few suggestions in my line, and if you will bear with 

 me I will read these few notes: 



