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Show UTAH WON GRAND PRIZE I " EOR HER FRUIT "EXHIBIT 1 Display at National Irrigation Con- H grets Awarded Silver Cup Against H All Competitors. jH Boise, Ida,. Utah won back Jtn H Wednesday' tho 'supremacy In fnSp B which it lost -to 'Idaho -at Ogden' throa H years ago. The victory was decisive and tho unanimous' decision ef the H Judges was approved by 95 per cent B or more of, Boise's Inhabitants and vis- B I tors. B Four silver loving cups were of- B fered by tho congress. That for fruits B was won by Utah; grains and grasses, .Canyon connty.ildaho; veBotables.iAda county, Idaho. Tho cup for sugar beet has not - been awarded. The Judges havo examined tho displays and sent the beets to tho chemlstof tho Nampa sugar factory for a test as to sugar contents, on which the docisloa will bo baBcd. " At the morning session of tho 'congress 'con-gress on Wednesday William K. McAllister Mc-Allister of Denver, tho first speaker, dealt with tho immigration question and raised Issues that Involved tho congress in most earnost discussion. The Coloradoan advocated foreign Immigration. Im-migration. John P. Irish of California asked tho congress If It would not bo better to close tho country's gates to the moro than 1,000,000 of foreign immigrants who wore coming annua) ly and give tho youth of our own lanxl n higher opportunity. Tho Cnllfor-nlan Cnllfor-nlan declared that tho immigration today was not a patriotic Immigration, but a parasitic Immigration. O, W. Mott of St. Paul, general Immigration agent of tho Northern Pacific railroad, agreed with Colonel Irish. The morning session closod with an address by W. H. Newell of tho reclamation recla-mation service on the methods under which Irrigation projects are contracted. con-tracted. At the afternoon session discussion of "Laws Governing Wator Rights and Methods of Appropriating Water by Different States" was Introduced by Dr. Elwood Mead of the reclamation reclama-tion service Stato engineers representing repre-senting ten states wero present, but the only speakers were John W. Lewis of Oregon and John W. Wade of Helena, Hel-ena, Mont, president of the State Engineers' En-gineers' association. Richard W. Young of Salt Lake City read a paper on "Sugar Beet Legislation." Legisla-tion." His argument was against the free admission of sugar from the Philippines, Phil-ippines, as has been persistently advocated advo-cated before congress. , Colonel Robort H. Harrington of the South Carolina delegation presented 'The Drainage NcedB of South Carolina." Caro-lina." . k Questions of climatology and raJnA fall woro discussed by Mr. Brandon. burg, In charge of the weather bureau at Denver. |