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Show UTAH WOH GRA11D PRIZE i FOR HER FRUIT EXHIBIT 1 Display at National Irrigation Congress Con-gress Awarded Silver Cup Agslnst All Competitors. Holse Ida Utah won back on Wednesday the supremacy In fruits which It lost to Idsho at Ogden three years ago The victory was decisive and the unanimous decision ot the Judges was approved by 5 per cent or more of llolse's Inhabitant and visitors vis-itors Four sliver loving cups were offered of-fered by the congress That for fruits was won by Utah, grains and grasses. Canyon county, Idaho; vegetables, Ada county, Idaho The cup for sugar beets has not been awarded Tho Judges have examined Iho displays and sent tho beets to tho chemist nf tho Nampa sugar factory for n test aa to sugar contents, on which the declsloi. will be based At tho morning session of the con gress on Wednesday William K. McAllister Mc-Allister of Denver, tho first speaker, dealt with tho Immigration question nnd raised laaues that Involved the congress In most earnest discussion Tho Coloradnan advocated foreign Immigration Im-migration John P Irish of California asked tho congress If It would not bo better to clnso the country's gates to the tnoro than 1,000.000 nf fnrelgn Immigrants who wero coming: -tnnu-tl-ly nnd give tho youth if our own land n higher opportunity Tho Callfor-nlnn Callfor-nlnn declared that thn Immigration today wna not n patriotic Immigration, but a parasitic Immigration. C. W Mott of St l'nul, general Immigration agent ot tho Northern Pacific railroad, agreed with Colonol Irish Tho morning session closed with an address by W II Newell of the reclamation recla-mation service on the methods under which Irrigation projects nre con-traded. con-traded. At the afternoon session discussion nf -Ijtws flnrernlnif Water tlli-htii oi ljiws lioverning vvaior itignie and Methoda of Appropriating Water by Different States" was Introduced by Dr Rlwood Mead of the reclamation reclama-tion service Btato engineers representing repre-senting ten stntea were present hut the only speakers wero John W. I.cwls of Oregon nnd John W Wadn of Helena, Hel-ena, Mont,, president ot tho State Engineers' En-gineers' association Richard W Young of Bait Lake City read n pnper on "Sugar Hect legislation." legisla-tion." Ills nrgument was against the free admission of sugar from the Philippines, Phil-ippines, na has been persistently advocated advo-cated beforo congress. Colonel Robert II Harrington of the Bouth Carolina delegation presented "Tho Drainage Needs of South Carolina." Caro-lina." Questions of climatology and rainfall rain-fall wero discussed by Mr. llranden-burg. llranden-burg. In chnrgo of the weather bureau at Denver. |