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Show HIE BUILDERS IETJ W Fourteenth Session of Irrigation Irriga-tion Congress Held in Idaho's Capital. Utah Man Has "Honor of Presiding at Opening Session Vice President Fairbanks Is Present, Whlld President Roosevelt Sends Greeting. Dolse, Ida. Moro than a thousand delegates, representing about half of tho stales of tho Union, wero present on Mondny when tho National Irrigation Irriga-tion congress assembled for Its .fourteenth .four-teenth nnnual session. Oregon wns represented hy nmrly 200 dclegntes, Utah sent nearly as many, and tho Callfornln delegation of about sixty was third In numbers. Vlco President Hnlrbanks, who arrived ar-rived at Ilolso before daylight, was escorted to the theatre In ItlvMsliln park at 11 o'clock nnd reqoTrcl a hearty welcome, the nudlence stnnalng and npplnudlng for fully n minute. Immediately after the arrlvnl othc vlco president tho congress was cslled to order by I W. Shurtllff of Qplcn, first vlco president. Governor fijeorgo C. Pnrdco of California, preslJont of tho congress, was detained in California Cali-fornia nnd will not bo present. 5 Jnmcs A. Plnney, mayor of PoIbo, and (lovornor Hrnnk R. Gooding yd-corned yd-corned tho delegntes to tho catal of tho (1cm state. Governor Gooding spoko ntfsomo length of tho several great Irritation projects now in courso of comiletlon in Idaho. T Tho convention was roused A applause ap-plause when Governor GorxS referred re-ferred to President RoosovcltBluitlng that It was at St. Anthony, la tho stnto of Idnho, where President Riosc-volt Riosc-volt six years ngo mado his krst promise to tho west to giro his lup-port lup-port to tho movement for thegAact-rocnt thegAact-rocnt of n national reclomaaBJaw. Tho great Irrigation works BEiho now nearlng completion, hi)ABBro the fruition of tilts promlsoTBT by President Roosuvelt BT Unltcd.Plntcs Senator HrMBjTTfc. bols of Idaho voiced IdnlxMBBumcr to Vlco President HalrbBBJ and when ho touched upon nitionBnotl-tics, nitionBnotl-tics, referring to tho vlco KcMdBk ns a posslblo presidential caidldaBMthe convention responded wltl tho Burliest Burli-est applause. Senator Dubois dcclarel thntBJ It should Iransplro that tin vtroBTesl-dont vtroBTesl-dont should lend tho print pniV of which ho Is n distinguished mBibor, nnd If fnto should decree that Wn ho the next president, the pttipln ofRdnho would feel assured Hint thoy lind a most ardent supporter In tho pvslden-tlnl pvslden-tlnl office, for tlio vlco prt-sldrf , snld Kenntor Dubois, has br-n onelif tho most consistent advocntes nt B.'glsln-tlon B.'glsln-tlon for thn rerlumntlon of tCi arid regions, 1 A letter from President ifmsovelt to thn members of the congsa was read nnd received with warm applause. ap-plause. Tho following messagn wnn sent by tho congress to the president: "The fourteenth nntlnnnl Irrigation congress, by resolution adopted, ro-turns ro-turns sincere thanks for your splendid message tn tho congress, dollverod through your personal representative, Hon, Clifford Plnchot." |