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Show PASS THE BILL. We think the taxpayers of the state would be glad to see Dr. Condon's bill calling for an appropriation appro-priation of $6,000 (conditioned on the raising by citizens of Ogden of $3,000 more) for expenses of the executive committee of the eleventh Irrigation Congress, become a law. The vrhole state has a direct interest in the matter. The people of the east are just beginning to understand that Irrlga- !lrtM tion ought to be almost as essential to the farmers If 1& Hf of the east as to thosein the arid west. This m tll change of sentiment is more due to the work of 'W ''W the Irrigation Congress during the past ten years B Hl than to any other one cause. This state is hoping bhIS that a good proportion of the money set aside by jfc , HfMf congress for establishing reservoirs in the arid S' KM region, will come to Utah and a favorable oxpres- B'iH sion by the Congress to meet in Ogden next sum- fi I III mer will be worth a great deal. Then Utah's pride jMi ought to be aroused to make the Congress a great It, i? success. It was in Utah that the first irrigation by &! f H white men began in the United States, and Utah i'SBHl' men should show the faith that half a century's lififlr work has given them. It will be an Important llit9' gathering. Shrewd men from probably twenty- MmwtM five outside states will be in attendance; they will n9i receive their impressions of Utah and the way SIKHI Utah does things, and will advertise those impres- ff 13H1 slons when they go away, hence they should be ftiM generously received and thoughtfully cared for. BlH The bill ought to pass. wlH |