Show PLANS COMPLETE FOR IRRIGATION CONGRESS COLORADO DO SPRINGS Colo Cob Oct 1 i.- i. Tho The committees In charge of arrangements arrangements for tho tenth or national Irrigation press gress which c convenes n hero October r has received reports which promise a IL large attendance of oC noted men men from all parts larts of Ar the tho country country Largo Large delegations from the tilO the commercial clubs ot of Omaha and St St. Paul will come In private prato cars New Mexico Texas S. S Kansas and Nebraska cities wilt will also aiso send Inn large e delegations The subjects to to-be to be handled affecting as at thc they do ilo the proper expenditure of ot c 00 of ot public money now available and 1 the tho proceeds from rom future land sales Bales for tor tho the reclamation of millions of ot arid acres and I the making m o homes for tor millions of ot people peo plO pIe now crowded in tho cities have havo at attracted attracted at- at tho the highest m minds In els of t tko tho 0 Notion Nation from captains of Industry to the tho leaders of oC the labor organizations Letters of or In indorsement In in- of the possibilities pos of oC the congress congress con con- hr gress s arc are pouring In ever every da day from these people One notable communication has lias be been n received c from John W W. Ela Elu the prominent lawyer and civil service apostle ui of ot Chicago In part It wa was as follows follows- No project 0 of equal Importance has been launched In fifty years ears The action of at Congress Congre s has hus transformed our dream of ot two yearn ago Into a concrete system The Tho vital Ital thing now Is la that these who ho shall be engaged ed in Us Its executive shall realize that thit the scheme Is IR now at Its practical stage and shall so manage the I work v and apply appl tho the funds as to Justify tho the In assuming the at al our request t Vc We 0 were once an agricultural country hut but for tor or six years now the farmers ha e cea ceased cd to be one half of or the population It Is an axiom In political political poli poli- economy economy that a country Is la at It Its best wh when stage c n agriculture Is Its domE domi nant mint Industry Anarchy starves In an a agricultural countr country So In tho the most of the tho evils lIs which threaten the perpetuity of peace of or a community With Ith 0 new farmer farmers on farms that will not nol only onto be as fertile ns lIlI anywhere In the world but whose fertility Ill T be practically perpetual the agricultural character of ot this country will be bo fixed for well for well another century sa say |