Show SAt SALT T LAKE WANTS NEXT NOT CONGRESS T. T H. H Fitzgerald Says West Should Go After Irrigation Convention S IRRIGATION NOT DRAINAGE T j r Washington b D 01 C C. C Declared i 1 Bad Place for Meeting Meeting- Commercial Club Session T That Thai lal Salt 1011 Lake Lak ha has more than an ann even n ch c to o co n the convention of oC th the National Irrigation congress for I Is the belief helle of or r T. H. H Fitzgerald chairman of oC the Commercial club gotten to 10 llio fifteenth annual conventi convention conven n tl ti tion n recently held In Sacramento Cal Mr fr Fitzgerald l made this statement n at a a. a meeting of oC the hoard board or of director o othe of oftIe the tIe Commercial club held Iteld Wednesday ny noon Mr tIr Ir Fitzgerald pointed out timit that tim It would bo he the wiser viter move mo to iii c tho convention con held In th the West r rather than In D. D C. C an anil that salt Halt It Lake 1111 I Is 14 the tho logical RI ell city oi of ot tho the mountain intermountain country for the th hl big meeting n Street r ur or ir lieu Me J J. J II n. Lament president A. A H. H Burt Hurt business luInes n ar ager J J. A A. A and J.D. J.D. J.D. J. J D. D McCarty members of or the tilO l c board of ot tIme the Amalgamated Association of ot f Street and Railroad Km- Km plo of oC were wr present and alced th the privilege or of the Commercial club building for or their national conen convention con con- en in 10 1909 In Tn addressing the thc trustees Mr 11 Fitzgerald FIt Fitz gerald said aIl the he Utah delegation had been royall ond then pro pro- I 1 ted feel cl Is la of or great grent importance tl thai nt the tho cO convention of or 1508 1908 should holl he be beheld held in iii the thc ell city of oC Salt all Luke Lake In Instead tead of or Washington D. D C. C us Its s n ml many many of or the time representatives R desire It Is 1 I the he opinion ion tIC some one om of or the delegates e especially from rom the Eastern at rn stOLes states that the tho Na Irrigation cOn congress has hns ser served d Its purpose ns as a 1 purely purll Irrl irrigation atlon congress con con- gress reSA anc and that t l In 10 the Iho near future this congress will h he hf hanged changed and the thc matter matter mat mat- 1 ter r or of drainage p will wll receive I Its Us first consideration on the thor theory that enough Interest has been heen aroused on the subject t t o of Irrigation and that allor all nil of or the Hie lands which are 8 1 susceptible to Irrigation he taken up lip and managed man- man that thal this aged U by private parties congress in to the time future will h be he used wINI for the purpose of or draining the h. h vast ncr acreage of oC swamp lands in the middle anti southern states stales I Irrigation II However owe ower r this may h he we regard it n as Important that this thie eon congress devote devoe tho the major part art of or Its time to Irrigation tion Lion that being the purpose for tor which It wan organized an and that we ns citizens citizens citi citi- zens of Utah In th the midst of this Arid country which so o needs neds irrigation should not JI permit the Interest In nn any manner to wane and that It Is our duty duly d ll as ic citizens l of or Utah and time the In- In tx i f pun f-pun foundry an i rv to iMS 1 n i fr n p Il PS org P mn r pose pos a and being h held In iii th the humid dis- dis JAnd Arill I further recommend that every er effort fort should be u. u used ed h by all nil citizens and organizations of oC tho the district to lo hold holmi the convention of or 1908 in Salt Lake Inke In preference to Washing a ton D D. Coo C. Cor or nn any oth other othet l' l astern Kastern city as b by some of the delegates ates this heln being the home of or Irrigation and tho the purposes of or thi this organization was wa originally e established taLlIsh for time Iho reclamation tion of or till this arid arll district I |