Show I I I I I I IRRIGATION TO BOOST Prospects Promising According to Executive Secretary Arthur Hooker Hocker Special to lo The Examiner Spokane Wash ash Jan 1 Pros Prospects for the success of the Elgh Eighteenth National Irrigation congress to be held In Col Cot Septem September ber 26 20 to lo 30 1910 are glowing ac to Arthur Hocker executive secretary t who has returned from a business trip to that city and the east cast The people ot of the city ond nud sur surrounding rounding country already are arc uniting to lo make malte the coming congress even esen more successful than the last After Arter attending the meeting of the first National Farm Land congress In Chicago Mr Hooker came away awn convinced of the superiority of the middle west vest and the east enst as locations for these displays Mr lr Hooker said sald saidI I 1 met the members of the tho Pueblo board In consultation and I find they the have organized with the determination tion of making this congress superior to the one ono held In Spokane last Aug August August list though they tho realize thaC thu Spokane has set net a no mark marlc which will be hard hurd to excel I From Pueblo I went to Chicago where I spoke before the th National Farm Congress on Farm Building In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Northwest Thero There we encountered a n keen Interest In tho the opportunities opportunIties HIes offered by this part of oC the coun country country try The rhe attendance was vas gratifying and the displays wore were such suck that stops steps were taken to make malte It a permanent organization I remained in Chicago to attend the United States Land and Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion exposition which gathered won wonderful wonderful wonderful exhibits of products from ev ci every O Oel I cry ery el section of the tho country tilling filling the tho immense Coliseum to overflowing There Theio were several districts in Wash Vash Washington Washington ington represented but ut the Immedi Immediate ate Spokane country was wa not as M well cared for Co l as ag Its Ila friends would wOl d have liked This great grent opposition exposition the first of the kind ever eor held In Chicago arous aroused aroused ed cd signal Interest throughout the thio mid middle mIddIe middie dIe dle west ivest and east The large largo attend attendance once ance showed that great groat Interest may mar maybe maybe be bl aroused by b taking exhibits of this character to centers whore tho peo pee people pIe are nrc Mr Mi Hooker with Mrs Hooker was In Washington at tho the opening of con pross aud and was present pro nt at a meeting of tho the National Rivers and find Harbors congress Throughout the middle west and east I found tho greatest interest In Irrigation forestry and homo home build buildIng building Ing Ins he ho said Tho The eyes oyes o of or the peo people people pie arc being boing turned to the opportunities that are being offered thorn thom In Inthis Inthis Inthia this thia country coun Mr lr and Mrs Hooker will leave for Pueblo on January 2 to make their homo home In that cUr city |