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Show THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The Irrigation Age for August 1st comes out in a new coyer, in w hich irrigation ir-rigation is artistically represented as a j goddess pouring water from an urn, to j make prolific crops spring from the desert soil. Col. A. C. Fisk. of Color- j ado, is the subject of the portrait on! the cover. The leading feature of the j number is an illustiated description of ! the great works of ii ligation in the Pe-' coj Vallev. of New Mexico. Other I prominent articles are "Kansas Possi-1 bilities." by Col. A, C. Fisk; "Supers i- J sion of Public Waters," by Elvvooji Mead; "Fertile Suit Lake Vall-y," by I Joel Shoemaker; and "California's) New Boom," by T. S. Van Dyke. A f very useful new feature is a department on recent decisions of the courts on wa- ter rights. There are the usual full de- ( I partments of news from the various j states, new construction, irr. gated farms and orchards, etc. Altogether th s ! number of the .1 e is verv strong and i J j bright and suslains the high reputation w hieh this new journal so quickly acquired. ac-quired. All classes of the western pub-lie pub-lie should l e interested in this able and iTiditab.e western puid cation, j Bv th.- way, there is it congress of 1 1 pres.'iitatives from all the states and t n .tor es of the Union interested in j ; h - s Uject of irrigat on to ba held in j Sal; Lake ( ity ;n eptem.er. The fac: j that the congress is to be held in Utah s i capital is a .recognition of the j tV.et th .t Utah is conceded to I to he first and foremost in the matter j oi inigation. The pi mi truth is thai the development or Utah has demonstrated demon-strated the giand p'-ssibili! ies i'f iiri-gation. iiri-gation. Th na.ion now is interested and propose to endeavor to have our government take the matter in hand and invest some of the public money in this direction with the view of adding ad-ding to the resources of oar glorious commonwealth, by put ting under cultivation the thousands thous-ands upon thousands of acres of rich land that are now lying idle. The wor!i of the congress will result advantageous to Utah. This county should be represented there that we may receive our full quota of the benefits. bene-fits. The beneficial results will flot only arise from the work actually done by the congress, but the fact of the congress meeting will be an advertisement advertise-ment worth money to the territory. The Dispatch would suggest that the Provo Chamber of Commerce and C i ty Council act con jointly on this matter and see to it that a good committee com-mittee composed of Utah county's best and most public spirited and representative repre-sentative men be appointed to attend that congress. |