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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



DIVERTING FLOOD WATERS. 



WHEREAS, The floods in the Arkansas River have done untold 

 damage to the property in eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and, 



"WHEREAS, The diversion of such flood waters onto the uplands 

 would be of great benefit to the people now engaged in dry farming in 

 the section mentioned, now therefore, 



"BE IT RESOLVED, By the Third Dry Farming Congress assem- 

 bled in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that the proper authorities of the general 

 government be requested to examine into the feasibility of diverting the 

 flood waters of the Arkansas River to relieve the disastrous conditions 

 now attending any severe high water, in that stream." 



Adopted by unanimous vote 



CONDEMNING FAKE ADVERTISING. 



"WHEREAS, The cause of dry farming has been injured in the past, 

 by the misrepresentations of unscrupulous land dealers who have given 

 wide circulation to misleading advertisements concerning the matter 

 of dry farming, and, 



"WHEREAS, every untruth so presented is calculated to and does 

 injure every legitimate land dealer and also operates to place dry farm- 

 ing districts in disrepute v^^ith the home-seeking public at large, therefore, 



"BE IT RESQLVED, By this Congress, that any and all such mis- 

 leading advertisements be condemned." 



PROF. CHILCOTT: "I move the adoption of this resolution." 



JAS. R. NOLAN, of Denver: "I wish to say a word on that reso- 

 lution. I represent directly, the Denver Post. Generally I represent the 

 newspaper men who are here reporting this Congress. The curse of 

 the West has been the mining promoters in the past, and the curse 

 of dry farming is the dry farming promoters of today. I mean by that 

 the men who advertise things that are impossible. Now the cor- 

 respondents here, newspaper men, railroad men and other men, who 

 are here, got together the other night and perfected an organization 

 which we hope will become an adjunct of this Congress. Our object is 

 to cut out all fake advertising dn dry farming land. The man who prints 

 things that cannot be done, we are against, absolutely and strictly. The 

 man who brings the homeseeker out here from the East or any place 

 else on misrepresentation is worse than the grafter who takes money 

 from a man with a three-shell game. He not only takes the man's 

 money, but he brings his family out here and gets the man's money and 

 the man has nothing left at the end of the season to show for it, and 

 the rest of you have to support him. That is all wrong and we are 

 against it. That resolution while not radical, is entirely in keeping 

 with the new sentiment which has sprung up in the West against fake 

 mining propositions. Now, we can stop this thing in its infancy, this 

 agitation against dry farming. Dry farming is good; it is fine, and a man 

 can earn a good living at it, but what is the use of misrepresentation? 

 That is the reason we got together night before last, a big crowd of us. 



