Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1900-11-11 | Page 1 | Call to Business Men to Reclaim Arid, Lands

CAll TO MEff n iO 0 Denver D nver Colo Cob Nov ov 10 loThe The Denver chamber of commerce ha has called cali d a mass iua meeting til g of business men for Monda Monday fan fa the f purpose Of df considering thc irrigation lITi tion storage question questionS S The Nations liTigation Irrigation congress Is to meet m et in Chicago Chic go on Nov Noy O 21 and the question of securing government gover aid in in building The last session of i iI storage stora e reservoir in n the west is 15 to come up and number rG of f ti I C congress appropriated to make surveys su eys a plans will be ready r d when congress meets in December Thew St c cis with a request for an appropriation is Is in favor of or going to congress Denver will ill to send a abig big tion of 1 5 as asa a starter and try boom this idea The business men raen meil of f delegation d to Chicago to the east are already aready awake it is claimed and will join hands with ith the business men of the west in ju seeing that a big appropriation appropriationS ir iris is is made to t s tart start rt the work S The idea is to have the government conserve the waters the heads of streams and leave the distribution to private capital The engineers claim th that t an expenditure of 1 will vilt not flot only provide water for reclaiming all the irrigable land in the th w west l st t but will put an l lem furnish homes for at least more people end em to the disastrous spring floods that devastate the Mississippi and aue Missouri valleys every year and an will render unnecessary the expenditure of large laige sums anlu annually ally b by the government building buil ling levees The movement is to be a movement of business men men in inthe i ithe the interest of building up th the west est and snaking making homes for a larger population George EL H Maxwell ifa w nt chairman of the National Irrigation gation association will wiH be l here Monday londay to address the meet t fu