Show STUDENT LIFE Congress are about as follows It was undoubtedly in favor of the home maker and against the speculator preferring' the small tract farmer to the land “grabber” In the matter of forestry and forest reserves the declarations of the congress tended to the benefit of the settler as well as to the proper carrying out of the purposes of the government It declared in favor of the establishment of reservoirs in the upper streams of our river systems flowing out of the arid regions for the double purpose of preventing floods and of impounding water for irrigation Directly effecting Utah was the resolution to the effect that the Secretary of Agriculture he urgently requested to make some forestry experiments in the vicinity of Salt Lake City conducive to a further development and preservation of said water sheds and the protection of the water supply The Congress has scored its first victory in the passage of the National Irrigation Act whereby the money obtained from the sale of public lands is expended in the building of great canal and reservoir systems It becomes a simple business proposition and is now in a fair way to be understood by those who are unfamiliar with its conditions The law as it stands 13 provides for the return to the government of every dollar expended for irrigation works It solved the problem of a new home market for the manufactured goods of the Last It solved the problem of lands’f?r the landless the very essence of Abe greatest question which confronts the public in its rapid growth A' The class of men taking part as well as the nature of the subjects under discussion may be seen by the enumeration of a few of the important numbers in the program “The Twin Ideas of Irrigation and the Conservation of Water for the Preservation of the Floods” bv J R Burton U S Senator from Kansas “The Work of the Department of Agriculture Regarding Irrigation” by Hon Jas Wilson Secretary of Agriculture “The Irrigation Investigations of the Utah Experiment Station” by Dr John A Widtsoe director Utah Exp Station “Economics of Agriculture” by Dr Richard T Ely University of Wisconsin About three dozen reports on Irrigation and Forestry subjects were made by expert scientists and engineers from all parts oi the west The next session will be held at El Paso Texas that town having vote of 205 to 147 F L IV 11 r |