THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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Harris of Utah. On January 24, 1908, the Executive Committee author- 

 ized the secretary to employ an assistant who should, under the direc- 

 tion of said secertary, create a bureau of Statistical Information on Dry 

 Farming, and to perform such other duties as might be assigned to him. 



Requirements for Local Convention. 



"Regarding the place of meeting, the following resolution was 

 adopted: 



"'Be it resolved: That it is the sense of this Committee that any 

 city and state desiring the third annual convention of the Trans-Mis- 

 souri Dry Farming Congress, shall be expected to present to this co-m- 

 mittee, through its proper accredited delegates, an acceptable guarantee 

 of entertainment and expense fund, and the publication of the report of 

 the Third Congress, and shall guarantee that its hotel accommodations 

 shall be ample and that it will provide an assembly hall of sufficient size 

 to accommodate the delegates, their friends, and the public who will 

 attend the Congress meetings.' 



"Under the above resolution, Douglas, Arizona, Cheyenne, Wyoming 

 and Los Angeles, Cal., bid for the Third Congress; the vote standing: 

 Cheyenne 9, Los Angeles 1, Douglas 3. Wyoming was selected as the 

 choice of the Executive Committee, for the place of holding the Third 

 Congress. 



"On January 25th Governor Cutler of Utah was elected treasurer of 

 the Third Congress and F. C. Bowman, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was 

 elected as permanent chairman of the Executive Committee. 



Board of Control Authorized. 



"On February 24th Mr. Fisher Harris, secretary, advised that he 

 had selected Mr. John T. Burns, to act as assistant secretary and his 

 selection was confirmed by the Executive Committee. On August 10, 

 1908, it appearing that the ways and means devised for financing the 

 Third Congress by the Executive Committee would be inadequate, owing 

 to the fact that the printer who contracted for the publishing of the 

 proceedings of the Second Congress delayed the issuing of the same un- 

 til it was too late for Mr. White to pijbliish his book, it was decided to 

 authorize President Brooks to appoint a local Board of Control with 

 headquarters at Cheyenne, Wyo., to take charge of the finances, not only 

 of the coming Congress as they had agreed to do, but to raise funds 

 in such manner as said Board of Control deemed it most expedient, to 

 pay the expenses incurred and to be incurred by the Congress from the 

 last meeting in Salt Lake City, to the present meeting. 



Headquarters Transferred. 



"The committee met informally at the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico, while attending the Irrigation Congress, Vice President 

 Govenor Curry, presiding, and it was decided to instruct the chairman 

 and assistant secretary to transfer the records and headquarters to 

 Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



"This was done. 



