Show heralded as attraction of the irrigation congress portland ore july 19 C B boothe ot los angeles chairman of the executive committee 0 the national irrigation congress which con renes in portland august 21 to 24 inclusive and having charge ot ar range ments for that session has arrived here to confer with local officials today a conference will ba held at which gov george C pardee at california president of the congress A H deveres vice chairman at the executive committee A M brannack Brann lck and A king ahson will lake up various details with sir booth concerning the approaching meeting mr boothe said the thirteenth annual session ot the irrigation congress will be the most important that has ever been held I 1 have just come from washington and can say that president roosevelt will send a personal representative senta tive and that secretary shaw ot the treasury department secretary allson ot the agricultural department and secretary Met calt ot the department ot commerce and labor will all probably attend and other cabinet officers will send representatives prince yang yu wei ot china will be present and tell ot the effect irrigation has had upon dynast lea ot china during the period since B C president joseph smith 0 the mormon church rill be among those on the program this afternoon I 1 am in receipt ot a communication from fred J klesel chairman of the utah committee stating that arrangements have been concluded for bringing the mormon tabernacle choir ot voices to sing an irrigation ode this was a feature of the convention two years ago at ogden and will attract interest throughout the northwest |