| Show mam TODAY Choice for President the Congress Falls on Carey of Wyoming SIIUnTLIFF OFOGDEN A VICE PRESIDENT Imen Protected by Arel Illte 19 lope 0 a lit ItrlgUuu 1011 1od Lincoln Neb Sept 29Th National Irrigation Congress resum 1 Us see along In the college chapel today The attendance was fair The committee un credentials Loads a report after whlth thq following officers were electEd elect-Ed by Acclamation President Jos JI Carey Cheenne W > o WoJlrt vice 1rsldntB A Cohrlne South Dakota Second Vice PresIdentL W Shurt llff Ogden Utah Third Vice 1resldentS M Knox Princeton HI Becrelary Thomas n Prost Mln jopolls Minn Lending ClerkCol I D Maxson Beau Nov rife CleikP c Ihrlcson Nebraska Plains llfporlcrU J Culver Los Angle Cal The selection or treasurer will be le I its to the executive committee I SUNATOH CAlllJV SPEAKS Senator Carry vv is introduced l He itcptcd the gavel In I short speech pressing his thanks He soli his fill iie was not to dictate whit the con Hnlol ihould do but to help It He then spoke of the purposes ard alms I0 Ilrlus tile llrlgallun Intelcst Irlgalul InIOI Senator Carey extirtilated his wonder ul tho produc tlvcllcss of Vitbiaskn without Irrlga lion and wundcnd If Nebraska would lot produce about all that was needed vhen Its fields were fully Irrigated He laid that Western people had 1 right 10 be proud of what he had done In tilt Went Hit I fly uf Lincoln last year come neur capturIng the United States ltv peescntatllcs oC tile University or Nebra1 are seen all or the West arid 01 knours them n soon os he iss the i fur thilr knowldge crop out I In ther cunvsuol he olle do It know l the Novulth oC thepeoestern wtr part of the Vilified States Senator I Jaiey Ihen spoke In brief of the ro ouieeo tit the West ho far ashc this country Is eonceincd the people 1 I ale i A ilunja Ulead of the prophets of the future The people l uie lo be amlcul turists Thee Is I I lcd of sclentlllc I und practical men to old in the de velopment of this tea ritory 1 As to plans Senator CIT said that I the first Irt thing neeessnrs to fuels per fee development was to take tare of I water of the Rocky Mountain streams lo Prevent the Hoods und Ir11 10odo Ind conserve the execs Water fur Ihs dry ee munitions orov Log 0IOIS 11e ptoplc want that kind of Kg station that will Insure protection to capital Invested further Investment In Irrigation This will Insure I In ten ur tfeeleor Ihe people will nut be moved by a recital of their Ills They will be appealed lo by mention of their desire for advancement and their enthusiasm for lieu plujects Prut Mount of lAs Cruces N M read n thorough paper on The History of irrigation A telegram of < on rltulntln vous retied re-tied b the convention from Col W T Cods Duffaly lilll PROGRESS OF IIIUIGATION Ml r 1 Newell of the U S geological geologi-cal survey read n paper entitled fOo enlld Progress of Irrigation He said In part partDuring the past few yours there have been comparative few large Ir ligatlun systems constructed rite principal prin-cipal developments have been along the In oC Inc rease oC area cultivated under ditches already built I and the construction of small Irrigation works depending for the supply ot water up ou stoiugu reservoirs or wells A period of growth has been the result not only ot the pi ev ailing hard limes but am tile natural consequence oC the sptculatlve movement resulting In the i building of many great canals during the ycais ISSDlSia Nearly all the larger corporate enterprises begun at thai time are now in bankruptcy re ullng from one cAus or another the principal one being that of the dllllculty of disposing of lands and M atr rlRhl ul remunerative figures In the study of the development of Irrigation and of the utilization of the v thLialklp v aclt Iuble land one of the striking facts to he noted Is t the difference In results heten those nt Inlnd by small and by largo Irrlgal lon work Nearly all of the Individual 01 partnership ditches have bon suc 1sCul and have ylIId large I ellrs whie the rvec 10 enorol the Came fill the corpu rate enlprlThe mal otms of water Supply have boeen built lit the least possible cost ny men 1 hn last ected to ue them In the cultivation culti-vation of their farms and whu have had lr fgard not to possible ProfIts prof-Its from the handling ot the uler rights bul to the In efd productiverars of the soil 1Ih man has been individually concerned fit securing economy In construction con-struction oDd operation Ditches have beef bu lit tu car water only to lands 1 which It wa Intended to cultivate Im Tedlately little or no expense being Incurred In bringing wilier to arena ImmedUtelv needed for the not ImmedlltI production pro-duction ut crops Thus every dollar Invested whether In labor or cash has aided In Increasing the value of the harvest of each year In striking contlnst the conflation project was conceived less ruin the point of a pel mononl and beneficial Invistnient than thai oC nbTutytn make quick returns from tile ell oC stocks old bona orbeol schemes ere oC course doumed to failure from the Rift for the active energetic mu ho villa vtro pushing them immediately last all Interest the moment they had made A bale or find obtained a h1 Y mortgage and left tile wreck 10 drift helplessly on 10 b me Imased by n fluctuating majority oC the creditors TIC IDEAL METHOD The Ideal mi thod of operation rf Ihesw Urge virls would be to carryout carry-out on a larger si ale the principles through whlili tilt mailer ditches have been ucceaul that each Irrigator Irri-gator should be 1 proportional owner In the whole evastoan and peisonail eneorneo In the patina Ital administration md pome al t oC each Irons snare oC th expense This hal hn iiltemlld by the croon loa of Irrigation 419ullts In which each properly owner bears his hoC h-oC tho expense the amounts due being collected In the ue mlnnr as school taxes The state of IICnrnla lead In tile magnitude oC theme entesprisoeit n considerable number oC districts hov Inc been orglnlzd a few oC Ithich have ben successful and olelnly those In which the debts Incurred were where the smallest funds were for the most part furnished by rest I p dents Interested In the success of tha project OOVIHNMINT MUST HELP The vast public lands ot the United States are among the most fertile of file world they are needed for homes for I lie people and Iherp are Cow It 1113IPinces IN here the nan without ron slderable I Capital can successfully make tlrctv luud A That0rp UtP1 V must first he provided The oppultunities for doing OIIulullle this Iy I Individual effort or by torpor MILAN on n Emi I atal Lat are 11 rallied I nearly all uf thom Ill I tills time have punned out of the hands of the govcrn melt rh rmolnln opportullt gvrn I IUIO vior I on 0 lalace scale the dam nlng of grt nt 1 poem unit the construe 101 of canals requIring tile highest ear clnoln I ol < Iand lur than the cardl nlr Italian uI Ihlt I Wo been Cound that orport corntIlltion Int riot been financially due ccs ful onl 1 UK Inger I the systems arc and the eiealel theJI ILlc hlpolone the less I Is I the likelihood that the cnl INIft11 Ito r11 mno turn n fair Inl 01 I 1Itelt 1 theme grat works hete aary to pro Vide i homes foi the peupbj ot to b < I I built no us lo 1 furnish l l tho best oppor tunities to the largest numbr It must Iu Iuno b 1 tat or national InterCe uce T ho tnl1 ultimately It re Ultmolcly celv back Its 1 up n ell nffoid to Ir itlcit I tile quest j of Internet I the Investment or can Ile contest wih a return far less than that demlndo by InveUnria I If w > > lr 10 slo the writer supply rf the 1Id regional fully I uplo d Ion the valet fertile tracts And them iitlllzod to their extent It I will l > only h 0 1M qulon oC Immediate prom Are lot olilC nerount Where fill IS I file main object the result must Ih A yo he that tile choicest ptunl ties onlY Ir conldle d And Ionals built wh Arli ee will pay the best ITo spcctlvo of UK destruction of opcllu ootrnelon oppor tunities for target and better develop srfr inputs and for providing the maximum I nlmbe uC homes for Ih future povu Litton OTiitiu nusiNisa A paper by I Secretory r Hclntz of Cal fort lot Ila lIOtI Mr Helnlz Sold he vott Ill not oconp thl line or tile eoragream fill full retailing oC Ills papr as I would be Painted In the ger moA I A Wright oC 1lueoln In a 10 lose on Artificial rainfall being slightly advanced Ideas on old Iheurl oC rain making A L Kellogg of Colorado called up the mate of etcclng n permanent organ I zathan arid the adoption if a constitution and b5lams and on o lon the ehlirmin 11polntoJ I com Lattice composed ot Mr Kellogg C I llooth of California and Klvvood Mead of Wyoming lo Prepare plan for ef fecllng such an association |
