| Show MUCH INTEREST TEREST I IS BEING TAKEN 0 Many Noted Men Will Attend ir lr irrigation Irrigation Congress CongressI I HIGHEST MINDS ATTRACTED I 4 COMMUNICATION FROM A PROM FROM PROMINENT LA LAWYER I SPRINGS Colo Cob Sept COLORADO 30 The committees In charge of ot orthe 0 the arrangements for tor the tenth national irrigation congress which convenes here bere Oct 6 have received en encouraging encouraging encouraging reports which promise a large attendance of ot noted men from all aU parts of ot the country Large delesa delegations delegations from the commercial clubs of ot Omaha and St Paul will come in private private private 0 vate cars care New Mexico Texas Wyo Wyoming Wyoming ming Ing Kansas and Nebraska cities will wUl also send large delegations The sub subjects subjects to be handled affecting as they I do 40 the proper expenditure of ot I of public money now available and the i proceeds from future land sales for tor the I reclamation of ot millions of ot arid acres I antI and the making of ot homes for tor millions of or people now crowded in the cities r I have attracted the highest minds of ot the nation from captains of ot industry to the leaders of or the labor organizations organizations II Letters of or endorsement of or the possibilities of ot the thc congress are pouring in every day from these people One notable communication was received I today front from John W V Ela the prominent l lw wyer er and civil service apostle of ot Chicago In part It was waa as follows I No project of equal Importance has been bee munched launched fa n hed In fifty years The ac an action action antion tion of congress has transformed our dream of two years ago Into a concrete system The vital thing now is that I those who shall he be engaged in its exe execution execution cution ah shall B realize that the scheme Is Isnow isnow I now at its practical p eUcal stage and shall so manage mannge the work and apply the funds as to 10 justify the government in assum assuming I trig ing the responsibility at our request We Ve were once an agricultural country but for tor si six years rears now the farmers have ceased to be he of ot the population population population tion It Is an axiom In political econ omy om cm that a country Is at its best b st stage when agriculture Is Its dominant in industry IndUstry Anarchy starves in an agricultural agricultural tural country co So do most of or the evils evUs which threaten threater tb ten the perpetuity or r peace of or a community With new newt farmers t on farms lanns that will wUl not only be as fertile as anywhere in the world but whose fertility will be practically perpetual the agricultural character of ot this country countr will be fixed d for forwell well say another century |
