Show co Portland Oregonian The Th Irrigation congress M at 1 El m i Paso Palo I Is one on of ot time the most Important organizations Bone lonK now no b before the public We have all heard of ot tho the conferred on mankind by b time the benefactor who makes two to blades of o grass grow Where hele only one has hns grown More before but the time Irrig ROW till still farther tart her and makes numerous blades prow grow where nono none have haxo grown before Lila Ills work stork has done dene toward reducing fanning to a n Honce than then else elo In IOn UOn with the Tl time West t 1 lh le ere nr lir millions of oC acre n or of land of ot wonderful that only he the application of ot Water to snake It tire the th In time the hands of the tho Irrigation lets Ila this land soon become more valuable value ibis able than then that which Is le 01 ou he time II whims of ot torture nature for Cor ICan Kansa City City star HI lit le lI have haxe beta b m tile iw posed ed to urge urKe that the groat scheme would b bt be deplorably wasteful because necessarily experimental rl mental The ime seems e m to hats hav hn grasped any nn real reul tell 1 dangers that lie 11 In Inthis Inthis this direction to have foreseen that ew special s cial might endeavor to secure control central of 01 certain developments and to tn understand fully tully that Irrigation mutt must b lie be carried forward reference to lu Its benefits to t all Interests rather than to 10 special ones one Ills loiter letter which was wall received with much by IJ the tho seems 1111 to 10 voiced the limo very el sentiment nUmen of ot those most mat ed tel In to the time work It inn be accepted In advance that the will be especially of 01 of thin this work oik for Cor which he h Is IB no moo largely sponsor rind and tint hat It II will trill be performed carefully and lna nil with reference e to the broadest 1 na lie national national lions Import I Anaconda heroin Kroin time the reports received of no III work of oC the twelfth annual of ot the National Irrigation l It ap Up islets that much good was waR ed I by hJ th the Uti noting meeting and that the Irrigation Irrigation tion people arras RI a 1 unit In their purpose and In their plans plane for tor currying It out There were some come diversions diversion provided for tor the entertainment anti and recreation of or the one of oC the th more mora inno innocent Innocent cent of 01 these thaw the WON was a bull hull light fight In Mexico It 11 Is III not ui nt at this distance that tits feature had Imd any particular bearing upon Ulan the subject of ot Irrigation Name Han o Cull Call Heretofore fe Its 1111 consideration of at the Iho subject has hae been een too loo academic It Is le noticed In III the time ud lid of ot Got Oo Pardee Is le lenot not treated from nn nil academic Ic but n practical point Holm of at view Time The Irrigation experts perta of the lit agricultural department nt also enlarged much touch practical In III Information ins formation salts Hull of ot water titer and nature of crops Tho The I nt deals In tho the lIme practice Use tice e and not tho time poetry of ot Irrigation and It Is le fortunate for Cor tho time arid re re glop that It ft hits this steadying to offset the lime i treatment of oC oCth the th question llon Los Lon Angeles Angele nelu Times Time Another point witch which the time president lont emphasizes Is the thoe for protecting the forests the tte groat which must bo be 10 de dos depended II upon to 10 furnish tho the waters lIe ife l led l for Cor The Ih great re no of oC forestry grazing and mineral stealth CRith he ho as RS the tho foundation stones of at tho the newer newel mad greater west weRt For Irrigation timid and every other Interest which you OU represent sent ont adds the She he president the period nf of is s past Tho Tha Th stock tock Interests ore IN no longer Independent of or orthe the tho mining Interests Interest nor either olther of oC them Independent of the Irrigator A closer than ever eor before Is nt at hand among till nil the tho great Interests of ot the whole country |