Show MANY PLANNING TO VISIT BOISE Montie B Gwinn Gwin Pred Predicts Rec Attendance at Irrigation Congress dill WELLS ELLS OF ENTERTAINMENT T TIPS WILL BE MADE TO T SCENES J Ji t OF ENTERPRISES One of the busiest men in two t o states a L this time is the chairman of the ex ox exE E tive committee of the fourteenth session of the tho national Irrigation congress Montie B Gwinn who was in InS Bait S Lake yesterday Mr DoIr Gwinn is the thee executive e manager of the session and his work extends not only over two states but throughout the length and breadth of the country The opening of tf the session is scheduled for next Mon Monday Monday Monday day in Boise Ida at 10 a m in and Mr Gwinn says that judging from the rate at which acceptances acceptance acc are coming in inthe inthe Inthe the attendance attend nce will far and away sur surpass ur pass that of any other session since the inception of the congress Mr Ir Gwinn spent a few ew hours in the city yesterday a guest at the Commer Commercial cia cial club and to a lL representative r of The Herald talked of the congress and its work The official program has not yet been entirely completed co but is pro progressing progressing progressing j gressing as rapidly as We expect to have an attendance ch will discount all previous ef of efforts efforts forts said Mr Gwinn Nothing has been neglected to insure the comfort rt of ot the visiting guests and we believe bellevo our cur ur accommodations are equal to the strain no DO matter how large the attendance may be The adjoining towns of Idaho and Oregon will of course contribute largely but in order that the visitor from a distance may be sure euro of quarters quarters we have arranged for special trains leaving Boise oise each evening for points within a hundred miles mUes or so of tho the city and returning the following morn morning mornIng ing inS By this means we expect to avoid anything approaching the usual con congestion attendant upon large gather gatherings gatherings gatherIngs ings of this kind as the people from the nearby towns will then be able to return etUIn to their own homes each night during the session v V Attendance to Reach Thousands r Regarding the number of people we expect to attend while it is 15 perhaps a little early to speak definitely I am Satisfied that these will run well into the thousands Of course they will not k I all ajl be delegates or members of delegations delegations but they are none the less wel welcome welcome welcome come on that account I The congress will hold its opening meeting at 10 sharp sharI Monday morning Tho The list of speakers will In Include clude dude tho the leading scientific men of the world and the lectures and speeches speech s swill will be illustrated by b means of stere stereopticon stereopticon stereopticon views vies showing the results of water on Oll various classes of land and upon the crops produced from this land The loading leading irrigation projects of the world will Avill be discussed and explained and the experiences of men who have mule made life liCe studies of irrigation and kin kindred kindred kindred dred subjects will be listened to and ana au recorded Vice President C W IV V Fairbanks will arrive in time for the opening session and already acceptances from about t Jn n members of or the United States son s n nato ate ato have hae been received re elved About as many congressmen are listed as having ex cx expressed pressed their willingness to say sa noth nothing nothIng nothIng ing of such men as Governor Toole of Montana Governor Sparks of Nevada Governor McDonald of Colorado Gov Governor Governor Governor Chamberlain of or Oregon Governor Gooding of ot Idaho and Governor Cutler of Utah Governor Pardee president of oC the tho congress will of or course be on hand and each and all will arrive in a special train provided for the purpose together with their friends and the del agates from torn their immediate sections Speeches will be in order from many of these In addition to which letters and addresses on the tho subject of irrigation Irrl will be read road from various foreign min ministers mm Many Going From Utah The attendance from Utah will un undoubtedly undoubtedly be large and in this connection connection connection tion I should like to suggest that all those who expect to go notify Fisher Harris at the Commercial club so that arrangements may be made for their accommodation in the tho special train leaving here Sunday night and an which arrives in Boise in time for breakfast Monday morning should they desire to avail themselves of it The work of the congress will be di dl divided vided Into about fifteen departments 4 which will be presided over by such ft q men as F H head of the geo geological geological geor r I logical department at Washington Pinchot chief of ot the tho forestry division at Washington and many others whose names are equally well wen known The work of the congress will afford the most thorough lesson on ir irrigation irrigation and everything that pertains to it Which has ever been offered the American public and the good results Which will be accomplished towards educating the people to the ties growing out of a systematic irrigation irrigation tion of the many square miles of arid land of many western states are Visits to Sec See Actual Work Our aim has been to provide a study of or the situation not only z iong scion scientific title In a practical sense as aswell aswell well and on this account the last three days of the session will be given Elven up to toa toa toI I a tour of much of the reclaimable land landof landor landof of or the state Minidoka with its mam niam mammoth mammoth moth government dam by b r means of f which water is brought to hundreds of ot square miles mUes of ot country which other otherwise wise would be as worthless as the des desert desert desert ert will wIn be visited as will Twin Falls where yet et another gigantic reservoir Is Js In process s of construction The smaller towns many of or which exist as asa asa asa a direct result of the work of irrigating which w has already been done will also Q me in for a no share of or attention Ru Rupert Rupert Rupert pert Burley and other thriving towns 7 Where there less than a year ago not a single house was as in sight will be visited and anddie the die situation studied On the main line of the Oregon Short Line Welter Weiser Pay Payette Pa otto ette Caldwell Nampa as well as Poca Pocatello Pocatello tello Idaho Falls Blackfoot and St StAnthony SC Anthony will be stopped at and practical practical practical demonstrations of the many ben benefits of ot irrigation will UI be given glen While the tho th principal efforts of or the congress will be devoted to a study of conditions in Idaho the th results re of or their investigations will apply to every sec section section tion of ot the country where arid land landI I constitutes a problem for national at attention attention Utah as a state has every rea rca A 1 Fon n to fer pl l the tho very keenest interest in inthe inthe 1 J the development ment of Idaho as it is un f a 3 fact that fully 60 per cent of the th business bu done by Utah jobbers is done dono in that state This is well known to the jobbers themselves and is isone isone isone one of the tho reasons why wh WP we look for such a large attendance from Utah Next Year It May Be Washington Mr Gwinn left en cn a late train yes yesterday yesterday yesterday for the Idaho capital which win will willbe be the scene of his best efforts from now until the end of the congress The fact tact that a concerted effort is to be he made by those delegates from Salt Lake and other Utah points to have the next session called for Washington D Ii DC DC C is not unknown to Mr Gwinn Glnn It has been pointed out that Utah is near nearly nearly nearly ly as much interested in irrigation mat matters matters matters as Is Idaho and it is generally felt that Washington would another year be of all places the best for the purpose The holding of the session there would mean that many congress congressmen men and an representatives would also be delegates w h fact alone would in insure insure insure sure a knowledge of the work of the congress in legislative circles which could hardly fail faU to Drove of or value in inthe inthe inthe the long Ions run |