flw NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGREsiH BE HELD IN WASHINGTON IN M Fred J. Kicsol, chairman of tho com-raittco com-raittco appointed to report on tho advisability ad-visability of holding the seventeenth National Irrigation congress at Washington. Wash-ington. D. C, in 1009, said Thursday that tho rcport.of tho committee would l)o unanimous in favor of the eastern city. ''Our report will bo placed before tho Albuquerque congress with tho strongest strong-est approval," said Mr. Kicsel. "Although "Al-though the formal report has not yet boon drafted. I can furnish au outline of tho. principal reasons why wo shall favor an eastern city, and also a date later than any heertofore. so-that it will be at a time when the national Congress is in session. "In tho first place, wo peoplo of the West know a whole lot about irrigation, irriga-tion, its benefits and possibilities, whilo tho people of tho East have little or no intimate knowledge of tho sub.icct or of the great possibilities for homo making in tho West. Tt is from the groat cities and tho congested agricul-1 tural regions of tho East that wo want most of nil to draw our settlers for this country, and we want to present tho advantages of tho Weat to Washington and the East iu the most convincing iorm. . . "With this end in viow, it is to be hoped that tho delegates to the convention con-vention at Albuquerque will view tho matter of selecting the next mooting place ns wo do. "Onlv ono objection has boon raised to the plan for holding the sovontconth congress nt Washington during the time when the national Congress is m session, and that is that tho latoncFS of the season will result in a poor exhibit. ex-hibit. This objection, however, will not ptund; for, if wo begin early in tho season, tho Utah cxhihu " from other states 2 i38 a 2 and with a little VrC"hb ML sonicd for exhibition in toM us good condition as fLWa8hktjR hibited here or in anfeC0B "Tho Wert ha? Q rife tion congress, and K&hMtiB immense amount of R0n0,f :J a.Q tion thoy have furnishejn ilefiB Ration men. but tho snW l9V good will be nccomJlfiffijCW tho congress at W-imWi lnalJ'.K addition, tho move VomSfWf of land reclamation T 1 tf US the Last than it has ovor frST In tho matter of exhibit 2 WoM and grasses, thcro would .HwB rivalry among the irKtioV' in former, years, becaR ?3l! would be inspected by n l?eVaB of peoplo than had att0,Xf vious irr.gation conCrrS, ded ariE "Of course, there will i il1 in .the West fha ii H0 claims ns tho onlv nrnl. f"vat B' t"c 1000 ir?iganPrSa4L committee that will rS' T visnbihly of the naffin ' have some strong arClI5tsC PA" One of these arVmDnlVtp,3K that tho work of tho ? gross will bo brought dWiP tcntion of the goverumiT IJFT this way than it 4,,M t offi&Bi We would IkIVo tffadJaVtL speakers of national fante "Wt hopo to procure for I , 1. some western citv" con UW Mr. Kicsel eaid that arm,E had prnctically been ?nJR taking llcld's land fo tbSK