Show ADVANTAGES Of CHICAGO AS HOST Of IRRIGATION CONGRESS CHICAGO III April n 19 For For all the elements tha that combine to make an irrigation irrigation Irrl- Irrl gation or drainage project t complete completo- engineers money settlers machinery the necessaries of ot lifer life practically everything everything everything every every- every every- thing in fact aside from the tho land and the water there water there Is no other source of supply In the tho United States Stales which h can I compare with Chicago Chicago centrally located is logically the distributing center for everything c pertaining to irrigation and farm land de development do- do In lu three directions direction at least and with its financial and various other facilities facUlties the tho city is naturally the great clearing house for alt all tho the enormous interests In Interests In- In Involved north west and south I and ands east to no small extent apparent at first i With Ith these there facts facia glance glanco to tho the most ordinary observer Itis It Itis I is 18 generally conceded that tho the queen city of the lakes with lakes with people of her I Ion own o and with len times time as roan many more I within tho the scope of oC a n. ten hour Journey Journe on a n railway railway railway-Is Is o of such Importance as a n. nation center that tho the national irrigation congress IH 15 especially fortunate to be bo tier gue guest t this year oar That the nineteenth I sessions of the which are to beheld bo he held here in December r. r will constitute tho the greatest gathering of the tho kind 1 over ever witnessed ed In this country is no unfounded boast based n merely on preliminary en en cn Right no now Chicago's advantages advantage f lr farm land development throughout the entire country are nt at their best hest In 1900 1909 and during a part of 1910 1010 the atmosphere In the tho middle western cst portion of or tho the countr country country coun coun- tr try was surcharged with land lint t ment Hundreds of or thousands of In Inquiries In- In for Information cent conce farm opportunities in this thin state or nr that were directed ct to the railways to banks h and land concerns nc ml newspaper 1 offices and to the government so Statistics complied compiled later indicated d that a r rIAr large e percentage e of these inquirers were more curious than d determined This excitement ha has hag now non no died out almost completely and the tha rule now ls Is It it Js J reported generally that I when an Inquiry n appears it usually cornea comes from front a n. man of ot means whose request for Information l is followed In most ca cares cacs b by byan byan an actual purchase of a farm home Railway Rahway immigration men in Chicago O are jubilant over o the tho situation and e eo ex express pr press u themselves generally en rally as of or the tho opinion ion ton that the coming te y ars will mark the greatest rel agricultural advancement ad In inthe the history llor of tho the nation Officials Official of lin lines s penetrating Uns the west are aro looking forward for to a greater ter movement mo of colonists colonists colon colon- during 1511 1911 than took place last year Important as ft that year ear was as Down in Dixie DIxit and aM in the southwest tho the rall railway wa opinion 1 Is that th the tide UdA o of immigration will exceed this year tar the record made madela la last t year r e for increased lIld population and nd the reasons reason for this optimism aro are logical once on s A forcible forcible forc Illustration of the th stability of the middle western movement mo for Instance in In- In n stance 1 Is found In th the thA development dl which took place or Is indicated an as soon loon to take place because of the tho Influx of land settlers In the state plate of ot Utah in February Feb rusty During Durin this th one month ftC acres S o of lands were taken under the provisions pro- pro rl visions lons of ot the hom homestead teAd law The United United Unit Unit- ed td States State land and office at Salt Fait lt I Lake Inko ako City reports this acTa acreage as ilK the largest b by 50 SO r cent for the business for one month Er in n the the history history of or the office Recently rom a r om excursion AR s operated perit ed from Chicago to w western tern Texas Tim The col- col represented twenty different states I These are some of tho the more potent contentions contentions con con- of or Chicago business men In their predictions concerning the success that will mark tho work of the Irrigation congress congress con con- gress in Chicago this year Chicago o is the time one American center and source of distribution most moat logically logical a. a adequate to tn the enormity of nf the development movement movement move move- ment ment as a D. whole and nd the city is naturally the most advantageous host hORt this year for forthe forthe the tho congress and for the exhibits exhibit's of farm products which are to be repeated here this fall tall |