Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 1 | Many to Attend Boise Meeting

MANY TO ATTEND BOISE MEETING Delegates Have Already Been Appointed, and the . Railroads Will Give Rates to Irrigation Congress. t i BOISE, July 27. The Fourteenth National Na-tional Irrigation congress, which meets at Boise- September S to 8, is the only meeting of national Importance to be held on the Pacific slope during the present pres-ent year. Chairman Eben E. MacLeod of the Western Passenger association has notified the executive committee that rates for the congress would-be determined deter-mined at the Minneapolis meeting of the association July JL On account of the fact that this Is the only opportunity for attracting travel to the great West, It is expected that the railroads will make unusual concessions for this occasion, . an,d that the rates given will be such that all who contemplated contem-plated making a Western trip will take advantage of this opportunity. The general Impression pre ailing in the East is that it requires large 1 )id holdings in the West to enable farmers to be prosperous. This was the case with the pioneers of the Middle Western States and it seems incredible to them that a twenty-acre irrigated farm is amply sufficient to provide a family with all the comforts of life, leaving a surplus sur-plus at the end of the year, and many-are many-are coming to Investigate and learn how it Is accomplished. Although more than a month will elapse before the Congress is to meet, delegates to the number of over 1000 have been appointed ap-pointed from different sections esst of the Rocky Mountains, and an average of 100 letters a day are being received at headquarters, asking for general Information Infor-mation concerning the congress.