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that upon your return to your different homes, it will be with the most 

 pleasant reoollections of your stay among us. We sincerely hope it 

 may leave a lasting impression with you, so that when you are talking 

 of us, you may be able to say, 'The citizens of Cheyenne and Wyoming 

 are the greatest people on earth.' 



"Again, gentlemen, I extend to you, from the people of Cheyenne, 

 thrice a hearty welcome and hope that nothing may mar your visit to 

 this, our beautiful city and state." 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By Thomas Heaney, President of The Industrial Club of Cheyenne. 



"Mr. Chairman, Honored Governor, Ladies and Gentlemen of the 

 Third Trans-Missfouri Dry Farming Congress — It might be more fittingly 

 termed International, as I see here today representatives from every 

 quarter of the globe who are here at their own expense to give their 

 time and intellect to a subject of infinite value to the human race, for 

 does it not follow that when the art of conservation of moisture is well 

 understood, the science of dry farming at once becomes practicable and 

 profitable, too? 



"The history of this movement is well known to those present 

 here today. It is well admitted that the art of dry farming was, at its 

 inception, never intended to apply further than to a few favored acres 

 in the intermountain states, but what do we behold today? The idea 

 conceived by Mr. Campbell is demonstrated by our own Dr. Cooke, under 

 the supervision of our own Governor, in the vicinity of Cheyenne and 

 at other places in Wyoming. Our Governor had to be "shown" before 

 he became a convert 



International Movement. 



"Dry farming has interested peoples and nations, aye, to the fur- 

 thermost ends of the earth, with the result that today the representa- 

 tives are at this shrine doing homage to the masters in the science, 

 and to enter into deliberations that will bring forth more light on what, 

 to my mind, is the most important material question before mankind 

 . today. 



"When you gentlemen will have finished your deliberations and 

 adjourned this Congress, you will return to your homes convinced and 

 ready to aver the facts and send forth the message, that on this round 

 earth of ours there are billions of acres heretofore considered almost 

 worthless that are susceptible of cultivation; that will go to make homes 

 for countless millions of the human race yet unborn; who will in the 

 days to come, refer to your work as the most momentous and altruistic 

 ever undertaken, and to yourselves as the apostles of the Material Science 

 that has opened the greatest fi'eld for the elevation of mankind. Our 

 Brazilian and Spanish American delegates have a great field; for their 

 possibilities begin in Patagonia and reach clear to our own southern 

 border. The Canadian has everything north of the 49th parallel. 



