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Show UTAH WON GRAND PRIZE TOR HER FRUIT EXHIBIT Display at National Irrigation Congress Con-gress Awarded Silver Cup Against All Competitors. Ilolse, Ida. Utah won back on Wednesday tho siiprcnincy In fruits which It lost to Idaho nt Ogdcn threo years ago. The victory wni decisive nnd the unanimous decision of tho Judges was npproved by 05 per cent or more of Ilolse's Inhabitant's nnd visitors. vis-itors. Hour silver loving cups wero offered of-fered by tho congress. That for fruits was won by Utah; grains and grasses, Canyon county, Idaho; vegetables, Ada county, Idaho. Tho cup for sugar beeta has not been awarded. Tho Judges huvo examined tho displays nnd sent tho beets to tho, chemist of tho Nam pa sugar factory for a test as to sugar contents, on which the UccIbIoi. will bo based. At tho morning session of tho congress con-gress on Wednesday William K. McAllister Mc-Allister of Denver, tho first speaker, dealt with tho Immigration question nnd raised Issues that Involved the congress In most earnest discussion, Tho Coloradoan advocated foreign Immigration. Im-migration. John P. Irish of Callfornln asked tho congress If It would not be better to clone tho country's gates to tho moro thnn 1,000,000 of foreign Immigrants who were coming annually annual-ly nnd glvo tho youth of our own land a higher opportunity. Tho Callfnr-nlnn Callfnr-nlnn declared that tho Immigration todny waa not a patriotic Immigration, but n parasitic Immigration. C. W. Mott of St. Paul, general Immigration agent of tho Northern Pacific railroad, ngrecd with Colonel Irish. Tho morning session closed with nn oddress by W, II. Newell of tho reclamation recla-mation service on tho methods under which Irrigation projects nro con-tructed. con-tructed. At tho afternoon session discussion of "Laws Governing Wator Right and Methods of Appropriating Water by Different States" was Introduced by Dr. Elwood Mead of tho tvclamn-tlon tvclamn-tlon service. Stato engineers representing repre-senting ton stntes were present, but tho only spenkors wern John W. Lewis of Oregon nnd John W. Wnilo of Helena, Hel-ena, Mont, president of tho Stnto Engineers' En-gineers' association. Richard W. Young of Salt I.ake City read a paper on "Bugar Ileot Legislation." Legisla-tion." ills argument was against tho rreo admission of sugar from tho Philippines, Phil-ippines, as has been persistently advocated advo-cated before congress. Colonel Robert II. Harrington of tho Bouth Carolina delegation presented "Tho Drnlnago Needs of South Carolina." Caro-lina." , . , Questions of climatology and rainfall rain-fall were discussed by Mr. Ilranden-burg, Ilranden-burg, In chargo of the weather bureau at Denvor. |