| Show meff IN ZION delegates to the trans tram missouri dry farming congress talk 1 kings icings coytr at annual session governor brooks of wyoming chosen as ai next president of association which Is expected to mater lally ally aid agricultural industry salt lako lake city about ROO delo dele gates were wednesday mom moin ing at the opening session ot of the trims trans url dry IRr farming MIng con gross gress a gathering of notable men who are interested in tho the reclamation of the arid lands landa of th west and who ex hect by these meetings to be enabled to gain much pinc know knowledge ledge that will be of value to the tamor farmer who must depend upon the mo moisture lature that fal falla 1 aiom the sky to bring hla his barvest y yearly early 1 harvest to a successful fruition the congress was waa culled to order by 13 0 buffum of wyoming at 10 0 clock in tb e forenoon governor cut let lei of utah was chosen to preside and C it II root of denver was made secretary the invocation was waa delia ered by the rev P A simpkin gov arnor J C cutler delivered an ad dress of welcome follo following ang an ad dress by mior john S bransford Bran stord the governor gave J F mcdonald former governor the credit for sug aug gesting the ile Q paid a tribute to clarria i the ing pies president ident W I 1 halloran president of the C commercial am mercial club and of the jurers and merchants mei chants association welcomed the visitors in a pleasing address the co contention mention hall Is decorated with dry farm exhibits and many sug cestive banners have haa been placed i upon tho the wall among tho the speakers at the opening BOB filon lon was F D B linfield of boseman mont who reported that I 1 there are in montana 20 maybe 30 acres susceptible to tion and the conditions condl tlona are favor able speaking from the viewpoint of a much aluch very much ot of the land to la only 2 or 2 feet in elevation J W speaking for utah said eald there has been a great increase in the area of arid lands placed under cultivation to the extent of acres there tire are now in cultivation the annual wheat product of this athla system amounts to 1500 bushels to say bay nothing of the value of the other grains potatoes cin be successfully gro grown groan an tho the state of wyoming I 1 said bald W 3 rowell now has under cultivation 1500 acres of arid lands alti ulti the hope hopa la Is that there will be 10 are acres mr nowell said the total area susceptible of cultivation la is A letter from 11 W I 1 loch governor of kansas was read la in I 1 it t aliu g gov oy arnor stated slated his regret at hla his inability to attend secretary of the interior james wilson pledged the support of the do de part apartment ment to the arid farming fanning secie tary wilson walson dwelt upon the success which had been achieved in texas arid and discussed the alms alma of the gov govern ern ment in bringing in seeds from tor for sign eign countries and breeding new plants here salt lake city the delegates to tho the trails missouri dry farming con gress greas on thursday selected off officers leers for tho next year as follows prest dent Gov governor einor D 13 drooks 09 00 wyo ming arst vice president lieutenant governor ill 13 A baliell of idaho see sec prid vice president it II NV campbl Camp liell l 0 of f nebraska thaid vice president governor george cuiry ot of new maix aiex eco and an executive committee con elating of one member aiom each state represented A resolution introduced by depre senta tentative tive tolton of deaver utah in dorsing the bill of senator smoot known as a senito seata bill 1511 which in creases the number of acres in a homestead in the arid region from to acres was passed and the officers of the he congress were directed to notify the congress of the united states of the action taken it wai giai unanimously agreed by reso lution that the elev securing the next congress must make at a guarantee of entertainment fund even as Is re quiren by the american mining con gross gress the national irrig don Q so clathon and oth other e r similar bodies W M jardine assistant cereal lat in tho cince of grain investigation of i the department of agil culture reid 9 paper on the various kinds of grains that were best beat to be |
