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Show Mill EXPERTS TO MEET OCTOBER 5 International Congress Will Meet at Calgary, Canada, for Five-day Session. According to an estimate made by L. Newman of Montana, a member of the board of governors of the International Irrigation congress, a total of 10,000 persons per-sons attended the opening ceremony of the congress in Salt Lake in 1912 and he expects the congresa which is to be held this year at Calgary, Canada, to break this record for attendance. The convention will open October 6 and con- , tinue for five days. The fact- that this congress is the first to be held outside the United States is creating much interest, says a letter received yesterday from Calgary. Among the delegates to the congress will be masters of capital, engineers Intrusted with the direction of great reclamation and Irrigation works, agriculturists who are making fertile fields of the hitherto unproductive plains and heads of great colonization enterprises. Referring to the plans of the committees already begun, the leiter says: Canadians are fully alive to the importance im-portance of the congress and ore planning plan-ning royallv to entertain the visitors and delegates while they are in Canada, Can-ada, as well as to provide for them a programme-of real educational val- ue. The programme committee is making preparation for the attend- I ance of all the best authorities on irrigation from the United States and Canada, .while delegates will he present pres-ent from all foreign countries where irrigation is well developed. ! One of the principal speakers expected ex-pected at this meeting will be Hon. A. A. Jones, assistant secretary of the interior of the United States. His word on irrigation problems is above controversy, as he has bean ; largely instrumental in the satisfactory satisfac-tory adjustment of many of the serious se-rious problems affecting the prosperity prosper-ity and welfare of the pioneer irri- j gationists In his country. One section of the programme will be devoted to community upbuilding 1 in the irrigation annd rural districts, j as it is recognized that farm life should be made more attractive to j the voting people. This Is a subject j in which great interest will be taken by those attending the congress in Calgary. |