Show I I II I I FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 4 Prominent Men Will Wi Attend Na National National National Irrigation Congress t 4 WILL RESULT IN GREAT GOOD I INTEREST mST MANIFESTED SAID SA TO TOBE TOE TOBE BE E PHENOMENAL 4 DENVER D ENVER chairman Oct Oat Oct 1 L C E B E bf hi the executive eec com corn committee of ot the National Irrigation congress which meets meet in Colorado Springs next week says that the at attendance attendance will wU be b much larger large than was anticipated People are coming from all aU sections of the country countr said Mr to day There will be some of ot the most roost prominent men in the tho country countr there and the te Interest manifested is some thing phenomenal phenomena I believe beHave that this congress will wi be by far tar the largest and ad the most roost Interesting Interest g that has bas ever eer been held and that the result will be bean b bean an Immense amount of or good goo for the west west Among the notable men who are ex cx expected to attend the session of or the con congress contress tress gress gess are ae Charles Charle Francis Adams of ot Boston who ho is Js heavily interested In industrial projects both in the east eat and m west General Granville M Dodge now tow of New York and one of or the pio plo i neer leer railroad builders bunders in Colorado Colordo I D ODonnell Billings Mont one of or the I great farmers farmer of ot the northwest John H Kirby the Texas lumberman J I J Hagerman formerly of ot Colorado Colordo Springs who owns the largest apple orchard in the te world near Rosewell N PJ M I on a section of oC country which ten Len I years ago was without water General Manager H H E E Mudge and industrial Commissioner Wesley Wesle Mer ritt ri of the Santa Fe system C c m mander nander Frederick of or the Salvation Army who hag been b n succors success ful lul In tn making garden spots out of ot sev eral era arid aId sections seton of or the west George H if Maxwell chairman of the executive committee I of ot the National Irrigation association United States Senator W A Clark of ot A Montana United States State s Senator T P M 3 Patterson Paterson and Congress man J F P of ot Colorado Colordo Hon James Jamea Wilson secretary ty of ot agriculture Charles Fitch chief In the field ted for fo r the western department of ot the Unit ed States hydrographic survey Uni Ell El wood Mead Irrigation expert In the th e employ of the government and John Joh n W V Springer president of ot the National l Irrigation association There will be wU discussions on future e changes in the land laws of ot the Unit ed States and on account of ot legis hegis radically changing state land and lan d and irrigation laws Jaws The abuse of ot the th e public domain will be fully tuly considered also the very ver Important and kindred kindre d subject to irrigationS Irrigation forestry Among the telegrams received today toda y announcing the attendance of or men of ot o f national reputation was wa one from Ben jamin F Beardsley secretary of ot the th e chamber of commerce of ot St St Paul who wh o announced that Congressmen Siemens Page Morris and Frank M 3 Eddy would woul d accompany Professor Protessor Thomas Shaw of ot o f the state agricultural college and Dan iel Ie id W Lawler one of or the famous s I orators of the northwest northwest These gen gee tiemen temen also come to induce the con gross gress to hold its It next session at St St Paul Congressman Reeder of or Kansas Kansa s and several others other from eastern eater states state s ss notified the committee today that they the y would be at Colorado Springs from Oct OcL Oc t 6 to 9 E A A Hitchcock secretary of ot the in tenor sends greeting to the congress s and says The passage of ot the national tion ton act Js is a matter mator of sincere congratulation congratulation and I can cn only assure you that tat so far as I am concerned nothing will wil wU l be left lett undone towards securing the th e prompt and effective consummation of ot o f the duties dut devolving upon this depart department department department ment by the act of congress believing as I do that no act of or greater Import Importance Importance ance has been passed by congress for tor fo r many years year Sterling Coo Cola where the first frt reser reservoir reservoIr reservoir voir site in the west under the urn aro ro visions of ot the new bill bU has been sur sun surveyed veed will wU send a delegation of ot twenty y of ot its It most prominent business men |