Show I SCHEME EME IS TO TOBE TOBE BE ENCOURAGED n Ii P Cross secretary of the Land and Irrigation Exposition to he be held in Chicago in November I In Ogden for the purpose of stirring up tip Interest In tho exposition lie should meet with local 1 as the object of the tho Chicago gathering Is to draw attention to the develop development ment of the agricultural resources of the West cst and to direct the flow Jow or of immigration t lie tho Irrigated lands Chicago has hns seen the necessity of opening to the tilo minds of the lie poor of that city of oC a hope for sonic some thing Jolter better than the they have With the possibilities of lie tho boundless west held out to them as within their heir reach and grasp gras the tho very poor pOOl are richer for the thought and 1 better citizens because of the worthy worth kindled within them leading men have havo realized realize that there must be something more morG offered the people o of the tho slums than is to be offered in the struggle o of a great city and the hope killing congestion of the tenement districts and to supply that broader vision and to lo lift from their lower classes the oppressiveness of a hope hopeless loss less contest the Chicagoans have pointed to the West and now they have Invited the West Wesl to carl carry to proof that hint what has been bce toM told o of this magnificent land of prom promise Iso Is neither exaggeration ion nor misrepresentation It Is a good thing for Chicago and anda a mighty big bib thing lhing for the West |