| Show I IRI IN IS S AIDED I f fI t Recent Congress Great Help to 0 the Cause t EAST IS INTERESTED 0 VAST VAT POSSIBILITIES OF OP PLAN ARE ABE OPENED TIP UP AE OPEN U UCh Chicago Ch go Nov 86 The delegates to the ninth annual nual convention of the na national national irrigation congress which closed here last lat Saturday unanimously de declared declare dared clare that that greater geater interest in the Irrl irrigation Irrigation lands of the United gation gaton of the arid States Stat had been ben reached by b this convention con convention venton than than any previously held We believe that the Chicago con convention bleve of ff the national irrigation con congress conge th gross gress venton has accomplished a great geat object said ge George H Maxwell Maxwel chairman of sid executive committee It fl has the I placed before the people of ot the whole I United States the importance of the problem of national nat onal irrigation and has particularly brought it i to the attention of the people of the east in a manner not otherwise possible A genuine in interest Interest Interest to have terest in the subject seems been awakened So much good would of the result from the carrying caring out the national government and policy by result in so many different ways was that people who have no interest in jn irrigation irrig Irrigation tion itself are being attracted to the idea ide It would accomplish the colonization I tion of the West wet and the creation creaton of a great market for manufacturing it would geat result reul in the te employment of la Ia labor hoc bor the development of mining in as assistance assistance assistance br to navigation to the prevention prevention tion of floods fods and in relief for the con congested congested congested ton condition of our cities cites in sup supplying plying material for thousands of 0 small smal rural Work By Correspondence Last year continued Sir Mr rr Maxwell Chicago was fixed upon as the meet meeting meeting ing lag place ws for this years yeas congress and the Na National National work was at once begun by wa Irrigation association to bring tonal the subject before the people of the east eat through their commercial organ organizations oIn organizations The merchants of Los An Angeles AnGele Angeles geles Gele began the work by correspond correspondence pond ence enee with wih bg several thousand of the east eastern eat ern em merchants and manufacturers who find a market for their goods in that city a a city which is such a magnificent marvelous cent object lesson of the transformation that water will wi work I In the west The merchants of St Paul Pauland Pauland Pauland and Omaha wet next took up the work ork of through similar corre correspondence correspondence organization and finally a large number of merchants and manufacturers of Chicago extended to the movement their strong influence and support and likewise took tk up un the matter by corre other eastern mer merchants merchant merchants chants and manufacturers As a re result resul suit sult chant sul of this work the membership of the National Irrigation association now comprises comprise nearly 1000 of the leading mercantile firms and manufacturing concerns of the United States and has hasa ha I a membership extending from fro fr Califor California California nia to Maine and from Minnesota to Texas Agricultural commercial hor horticultural Ai and labor organizations organIzatIon from one end of the country to the other have strongly endorsed endorsed the irrigation movement by resolutions and given to it their earnest aid and cooperation co East Is I In Sympathy Have not the eastern people how however however however ever been inclined to consider the proposition wholly a western w stern one he hea was a asked 0 We have heard much of eastern opposition op opposition position pos said Id d Mr lr but I 1 have ton yet to find a single eastern eater busi business with the ness man not In hearty accord movement nes as soon as a it is explained to t him nim The active cooperation cooperton of the labor organizations bears this out The movement has finally crystallized into a sentiment which Is essentially na national national in its it broadest sense and the tonal objections that are ar now enlisting In Inthe inthe inthe the national irrigation movement are not promoting from any local or sec see sectional tonal point of view but from a convie conviction tion ton that the planting of American civilization cV of homes for and ad the building new citizens under the Amer American American Amerlean ican lean flag in plaices places pl ces which are now waste wate and desolate is a a national purpose which demands support from every ever ever citizen in every ever section of the country because the and wide widespread widespread widespread spread benefits from the reclamation of this vast vat area of virgin territory would create a national prosperity In which all al would share Interest Not Political Are politics likely to enter into the question to any extent 0 I queston The great geat political parties of lie the country in the last campaign both en it i and hence the movement in no sense partisan or political I Irises I It rises to the highest and the purest patriotism and the motto moto of the move movement ment Save the forests and store the floods sIs is one which can be subscribed to fo by every eve citizen of the United States east and west west The The great stimulation of business and production geat incident to the coloni cotoni colonization colonization of the middle west we t where men went yent out and took look up from 16 to acres each and made homes for them themselves themselves themselves I selves would be small smal compared with what would occur If i acres of arid ard land which would be inex inexhaustibly Inex inexhaustibly fertile fertie Is given water ater and divided into ten and ana tw high highly ly Iy cultivated farms fars These facts fact the Chicago Chica o irrigation congress has pre presented presented I to the people of the east and they are studying them thern |
