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Show THE CONGRESS TODAY. Thft twenty-third animal session of the TranstnississippJ Congress opens In the Assembly hall, this city, this morn; ing. All arrangements arc perfected for the comfort and picture of the guests in their stay duriug the session of the congress, The programme of exercises proposed is i omprchensive, embracing "Good Roads" and "See America First ' as prominent subjects, so much so as practically prac-tically tO be called the keynote- of the session. Transcontinental highways will nlso be urged; there will be ;i discussion dis-cussion on the "Conflict of Federal and State Laws Concerning irrigation and Water Rights," and n paper by Robert W. Bonynge of Denver on "Cur rency Reform'' will doubtless attract much attention. We had hoped that there would be strong presentations in this congress in favor of the control f the waters of the Mississippi and Mis SQuri river systems, the affluents of which are so largely in the territory represented bv delegates to tin con gress. We consider thai next o the construction of the Panama canal, the great work to be taken up bv the Federal Fed-eral Government is the improvement of the mighty water systems of the Mississippi valley. The Missouri river could be made navigable up in the Falls, and the water of that stream could be so handled as to prevent diSBB trous, floods, by impounding the flood waters, and the release ol those waters later oh in the season would be WeJ come for the reinforcement of the navi-gable navi-gable channel, and also i make s constant con-stant water power supply Bufficieol for all the Transmississippi region, with irrigation not neglected where practicable. The combination of stor age water, of the use of this water for power and irrigation purposes, and POt navigation, generally applies throughout through-out the region West f the Mississippi and that, great work successfully inaugurated, in-augurated, would so change the industrial indus-trial and commercial conditiond as to make practically a rebirth of commerce, com-merce, industry, nnd increase 'he comfort com-fort of living, in all the vast area concerned, con-cerned, There is a strong movement from the cities along the Mississippi for the transfer of the great dredges and power machinery thai bare been at use on the Panama canal to the Mis-; sissippi. for the purpose of dredging the river and so ensuring a good sta'ge of water at all seasons for navigation, and also for the use of the flood waters of the, Mississippi in its lower Sections precisely as the waters, of the Nile are used in the flood season of that great river. That is, that there shall be impregnable im-pregnable levees built, with opportunities opportuni-ties to take out the flood water which carries thousands of tons of rich sediment, sedi-ment, and allow tho water to overflow hundreds of square miles, leaving upon this overflooded area the. sediment, carried in the Waters. This would bo a continued yearly fertilizer, and would make all the lower Mississippi regions a veritable garden of the earth, excelling Egypt in fertility as much as it would excel that old laud in the -urea so enriched. en-riched. It is a tremendous subjoct, and worthily treated, would bo the great feature of the congress It cannot can-not be doubted but that the Transmis-sissippi Transmis-sissippi Congress will lend its great influence in-fluence and support to the grand work of controlling the waters of the Mississippi Missis-sippi and its tributaries. There will be opportunities presented in the framing of the resolutions, however, to indorse this mighty enterprise, which, we trust, will not bo neglected. The delegates that are to attend the congress are here. They arc here for the business of making their voices felt in great. National concerns. Salt Lake City feel:, it an honor to have these men with us, and the city will not fail to show to these delegates, who arc fine representatives of their different communities, the heartiest hospitality and the most open-handed welcome |