Show IRRIGATION CONGRESS ENDS ITS SESSION Will Meet Next ext Year at Colorado Springs and an in Buffalo T R F Walsh Chosen President Thomas L I Cannon Gannon Tells Advantages of Arid Land Laud Reclamation Reclamation Reclamation tion from Business Mans Standpoint Chicago Nov 24 The ninth Nation National al Irrigation congress today decided to hold two congresses next year ar the first at Colorado Springs Cob Colo either just before or just after the sippi congress at Cripple Creek and the second at Buffalo in October during the exposition in that city Thomas F P Val of Colorado the new president made an address in which he urged urge that th the size of farms farina be reduced educed and that the wor ingmen be given opportunity to obtain homes home 8 The principal address of the tb evening was made W V H Dayton of the I United geological survey sury who spoke e on The Water Yater Supply of ol the Great Plains Congressman Congre man Newlands of Nevada spoke on Possibilities of Irrigation and George H Maxwell chairman of the National Irrigation congress talked of o Labor Land and 1 Water Tater i iThe The congress was late in to order today owing to the dl l ns in the committee on OR resolutions resolution While waiting for tor the committee E to report the convention listened to Colonel el John JohnS S Cooper of Chicago j pre president re ident of the National Park association who read rend an extensive paper on The Proposed Na National National National Minnesota Park Ask Congress to Act When Colonel Cooper had concluded c I the committee on resolutions reported l the following We hail with W ith satisfaction that both bothof of the great political parties ties of the I nation in their platforms in the last campaign declared dec red in favor vor of the Ute re no reclamation t of arid America in order that settlers might build homes on the public domain and to that end we urge upon congress that national appropriations commensurate with tha magni magnitude magnitude tude ude of the problem should be he made for forthe the preservation of the forest and the of the denudated area I as natural storage reservoirs lr and for forthe forthe forthe the construction by the national nal gov gay government government as a part of its policy of Internal in internal i storage reservoirs and other works for hood flood protections and to save cave for use in aid of navigation and mn irrigation irrigation gation the waters which now run to waste and for the development d of ot ar artesian artesian and subterranean sources of wa water water water ter supplies The water of all 11 streams should forever remain subject to the public control and ta tha use of for or orin r rin I in the land Irrigated and nd beneficial use be tle basis the measure and the limit of the right We commend the efficient work of the various bureaus of the national government in the investigation of the physical and legal problems and were I conditions relating to irrigation and in promoting the adoption ado tion of more effect effective effective ive lye laws Ians customs and methods of ef f ir irrigated irrigated agriculture and urge upon congress the necessity of providing liberal appropriations for this import important important ant work vork t The work of building the reservoirs necessary to store stor the floods should be Tae bedone bedone done directly by the government under existing statutes relating to the em employment employment of labor and hours of f work and under laws that will give to all 41 American citizens a fair and equal op opportunity opportunity opportunity to get first employment and th n a home on the laud land Cannon and Others Talk The afternoon session was devoted to addresses Those who ho spoke were wee Tom L Cannon secretary of the St Louis Manufacturers association 8 Charles Truax Elliott Durand and B G Chan Chandler dier the latter three discussing the Industrial and Commercial Import Importance Importance ance of Irrigation Mr Cannon said in part The reclamation of arid America is isa isa a question of such importance us is to be I passed by the unthinking or ap approached approached preached with fear by the timid We I might as well Hell w ll face fae a proposition fairly as men and not evade any of or its phases phaeS Notwithstanding estimates by ex experts experts experts in my opinion should be spent in the irrigation of rfd lands of the United States This m at glance seems a tremendous outlay y upon 1 what is considered an experiment to today today today day dayTo To carry the interest on at 2 3 1 per cent means an increased tax on the people of the United States amounting to annually This appears gigantic and again a vast per percentage percentage percentage of the people of f the United States oppose any kind of ot increased taxation To state one oe side of a 8 proposition prop I as a debt incurred by the nation and I Inot not to state the credits to set opposite that debt is an unthinking way though frequently adopted The government of the United States owns the arid and land of America If that land was irrigated it would give homes to people and It the enormous sum of 90 so o spent was wan never paid it would simply cost costus costus costus us not quite a year to give homes to our people How Money Would Come Back The average loss by floods caused cau d largely by the thawing of the snows in the mountains tilling filling the O and anti smaller rivers then the larger rivers river to the gulf or the ocean causes the people of the United States Sta to lose Joae more than a year The loss 1088 of deep deepwater water for transportation r tation in the navigable streams of the United States S tes because of the tte Jack Jack of water in pie of the United States in fright ht rates through lack Ia k of competition more than dlan a year m in excess of what those rates would be if we had ht I water competition It is unfair to that these thede bone bene benefits fits arc are local to the water courses and l that the tax t is i general The same claim can be made by every improve improvement ment meat in the United States the locality received the tIte benefit bene At the people In gen general general eral oral pay the cost All AH federal intern l improvements bear the exact relation to taxation that this Improvement does The land reclaimed and put into cul cut cultivation cultivation increases the th oa on of the United Ste y more than the entire cot coat Of t tie the coiT co I of the storage reservoirs re for Irrigation purposes The land reclaimed through irrigation would produce an annually annuallY annually to the people of c the United States a 8 profit equal to the Interest m rest on op the entire amount of The consumptive capacity of or those people thus given homes through h irrigation Irrigation gation would pay into the pockets of the people in sections of the country a profit on manufactured prod products products products equal to the in t on the bonds necessary to construct the reservoirs for irrigation purposes I believe in internal improvement provement i as asI asI asI I do in the forms torms of republican govern government government ment I believe in the federal government govern government ment improving its own property for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of the people composing the government I believe in the equal tax taxation atlon of all properties and the money distributed among all so collected being sections On Same Sante Basis as Harbors If it is right for the federal govern goern government ment meat to build harbors along alon c the sea e coast and great waterway different sections it is right for the federal government to improve that great American Amerlean desert and reclaim arid America through irrigation It was Thomas Ben Benton ton who said that to the tile west of us lies the east our oUtS future markets We e are rolling west where our supply of land is limited our eur ur population is itt increasing We Ve must look for territory to annex to the Unit United ed otT 1 States but that should come after we have annexed anne d arid America ad d made It a part pert of the productive terri territory territory tory of this thi Union I believe in expansion in its broad broadest broadest est eat sense It is a good old Democratic doctrine in the interest of the people I believe in making the United States the garden spot of the world and pro producing producing for all other countries their foodstuffs I believe in the of or manufacturing establishments to convert raw materials into finished products and offer in the markets of the world in competition with the gen genius genIus for ius lus of the world those products sale sate F vors Big Merchant Marine I believe in the federal government providing for a merchant marine sec see second second ond to no power on earth for the con conveyance conveyance of the products of this coun country country try to other countries and the bringing of the products we need there to this country I believe in a navy floating the flag of the United States second to no navy in the world to protect that merchant marine and aud by so 50 doing to increase our business busin ss abroad and to increase our wealth at home homeI I believe beU ve in seeing the flag of this country floating In la the ports of every other country from the masts of our marine and from our war vessels when necessary If the food products of this coun country country country try are increased as nature intended ill tended they should be and to a large extent our raw materials converted Into fin finished finished finished manufactured products the bal bat balance balance ance of the trade of the United States would be on the right side of our com corn commercial commercial mercial ledger I believe in making this country not only the greatest agricultural country in the world and aId the greatest manu manufacturing manufacturing country in the world but butI I 1 believe bIeve In making it the seat of finan financial cial empire and becoming a creditor of all an nations instead of a debtor Great Objects Attained These things are closely allied with the work of this convention today If we build storage reservoirs In the mountains of the west and control the water supply there her first for f irrigation at n purposes sands and clays of arid America ulti mat y going out into the smaller I streams then into the larger arger ones and flowing on into the gulfs and oceans I we do three things in one first we give ghe homes to people and re reclaim reclaim reclaim claim a territory greater than a Eu European European European monarchy next we ve give water to fill nil our streams in dry weather veather by controlling the surplus in wet et weather and thus give competitive tire tive with rail and secure cheaper freight rates for our products next we protect that vast rich body of land in inthe inthe Inthe the lowlands where the people suffer from overflows because we control the water and use it as we w need it These rhese are the first three steps to take There are others We Wf increase our productive capacity and our con consumptive capacity we supply the mar markets markets of the world and sustain that merchant marine so 80 necessary sary to our foreign commerce we increase the wealth of this country and make it far greater gradually coming to a point where this becomes the seat of finan financial cial empire 1 Delay Is Costly I think k that every day delayed in securing Heuring the passage of a law carry carrying carrying ing lag with wit it a sufficient appropriation to put in a complete and thorough system system tem tern of storage reservoirs re and irrigation Irrigation tion plants is a delay that is costing us far more than the tb most sanguine man rn n here bere present thinks of I believe in irrigation as u I believe in IIi any other internal improvement It Itis ItIs Itis is not an experiment exp when taken in hand band by a power so great as liB this gov goy government Appeals Appeal to the East I 1 appeal to all aU here present pre ent to unite their efforts and to write to their con connections connections all aU through this country urging urging ing lug that the congress of the United States pass this appropriation bill cre create create ate a law for irrigation and put this law into effect I appeal to the people of the east who have had their rivers and harbors improved at public ex expense expense pense pease who today enjoy great buildings built bunt from the treasury tr who call upon us for tor revenue to sup supply supply ply the government and men and arms armsto armsto armsto to defend it to join in this great west western ern ein question of overflows and do the Work ork as it should have been done by I our ancestors ance tors I believe that we e will ultimately succeed but ft Jt is going to take hard and persistent work to overcome a spirit opposed to what is termed the local feature of this movement It is no time to consider petty details Strike at the root and keep this going on until we win success which I believe we will wili ultimately do doAt doAt dot At t 5 p m in the congress adjourned till tUl ch tit night session es fon The meeting came to a close ClORe tonight only a small number of delegates being I present I |