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Show , marient organization. At the meeting lat ' i.'yht John Knry Smith deUvered an au- ! Jtn upon TJtrb. while C. W. Panroee j ci LeHxif of t;tah, responded to the ad- ' ' dress of welcome. '-' '-' The Utah deleatlm yesterday Tlsite4 I the grave of Ap"sii Woodruff. About tw- ' talr-ls ft the Utah de'eeatlon t prr . lng to make a trip to th City of Maajcv' taturday morning. - ROOSEVELT WRITES TO IRRIGATION CONGRESS j EL PASO, Tex., Xov. 17. Aside from :he technical information brought out at the National Irrigation congress yesterday, yes-terday, it was devoid of unusual Interest, but all the delegates paid clo?e attention atten-tion to the meeting ln the various section sec-tion halls and the meeting Is proving very profitable. The Mexican delegates are enthusiastic over the prospect of being officially recognized by the con- ventlon. It Is understood that they will return to organize a congress for Mexico, but they want affiliation with ihis congress1, also. in the Department of Agriculture. The following letter from President Hoose-velt Hoose-velt was read, and aroused much enthusiasm: en-thusiasm: Washington, D. C, Nov. 10. To -ho National Irrigation Congress: It is a pleasure to send my greeting to you, both as President of the United States ind'as a man who has lived in the West and Is eager for its prosperity. Whatever, dny man or body of men may believe as to any question in political controversy, fte may all unite in the great duty of international in-ternational improvement, the duty of making every foot of soil, every stream, and every other resource of natural or human origin, contribute to the very utmost ut-most to the permanent prosperity of our country. I congratulate you because you are no longer striving fur what once seemed a distant hope; you are no longer engaged in a campaign of education lor th passage pas-sage of a reclamation act. On the contrary, con-trary, your first great object is achieved. You have yet to consider what has been lone and what Is being done under that act by the reclamation service, to consider con-sider means to give It its largest and Aldest results, and to dimcuss the broad problems of Irrigation methods, and practices. prac-tices. It was through your efforts snd those of men like you, that the people of the I'nited States, as a nation, undertook to attack the desert and to do away with it, not only so far as there is water now for .hat purpose but to the fullest extent for .vhlch water may be developed hereafter, auch an attack can be successful only -hin basd on accurate knowledge. When the reclamation act was passed, the essential facts as to stream flow had beer! ascertained in many parts of the United States and the scientific basis for national reclamation, which otherwise would have taken years to accumulate, was alreadv ln a large part at hand. The fact that so much progress has already 1 been made by the reclamation service. Is a striking example of the advantage of 4 scientific- Investigation by the general Government. It may be true that, to the men whoee Interest is limited by Immediate results, the admirable work of the reclamation service at times seems slow, but we are building for a great future, and it is1 far more important that the v. orks built should be permanent and successful than that they should be completed in haste. There will be no unwise hurry; neither will there be any unnecessary delay. I Most of the great problems of organization organiza-tion and methods have now been solved, and progress ln construction and settlement settle-ment ln being made with lncr'.'aing rapidity. rapid-ity. The pnusajre of the reclamation law was a great tep toward realizing the best uses to produce water for Irrigation. I'-ut always, and in every place, the best t:se of public lands ts their use by the man who has come to stay. There are, unfortunately, ln every part of our country a few men whose Interests are purely tumnorary. who are eager to skim the cream End ko. Instead of using the forests conservatively, thy would, for example, abuse and destroy the natural reservoirs upon which national nation-al Irrigation depends, to the permanent 1 sa of every agency which makes for the true development snd lasting greatness of the irrigatable States. Such interests cannot be allowed to control. Now that your first great object has been accomplished In the nassage of the teclimatlon law. you should make your-lves your-lves the pttardians of the future, and the unrelenting and watchful enemies of every attempt to waste any of the great resources ln the forestry, grazing and mineral wealth, the foundation stone of the newer and greater West; for Irrigation Irriga-tion and every other Interest which you represont. the period of cxclusivencss is past. The stock Interests are no longer independent inde-pendent of the mining Interests, nor either of them Independent of the Irrigator. A closer Interweaving than ever before is at hand among all the great intrpsta of the whole country." One cannot prosper without the other. So the future growth and greatness of the other Western States will depend, in the first degree, upon the development of Irrigation, and the development devel-opment of Irrigation will depend upon the protection and wise use of the existing forests and the creation of new ones, and the prooer control of the grazing. Your work for the good of one Interest. is for the srood of all. Senator Newlands of Nevada and Gov. Pardee of Ctllfornia are the most-taiked-of men for the next president ot the con grefs. The Utahns who are here, about 25 In number, are pushed to the front. Major H. W. Young Is chairman of the committee com-mittee on credentials, Thomas Malonev of Cgden Is also on that committee. C W. Penrose Is chairman of the committee on resolutions, and Roger Farrar of Pro-vo Pro-vo Is chairman of the committee u per- |