Show I AMPLE fUNS FUND fUN ASKED S ED fOR Issue of for Arid Lands Spokane Aug to lo Ute tile National Irrigation congress set about aboul to relieve I the he arid lands situation to toda tolay da lay when resolutions beginning with witha a request for ample funds and m one end lug with one tot for a fund of The Tho resolution asking for a three per cent hand bond of was intro h 1 the tho secretary of the hoard board of control of Spokane It Is proposed ee to use this fund In iii fi five 0 portions as follows Ono One billion for drainage out billion for water vater ways a s one billion for good and one billion for fOI forest preservation lIon While hUe there was no discussion of the resolution there thore was much indicating that thal there ho bo considerable consider able support of such a movement It Itin in 16 that thal a committee present the request to 10 congress A resolution also was Introduced planning that thul where settlers of arid lands haw have been heen of the tho right t tto to reclaim theil t hiel i lands b by tho action of the reclamation service In 0 off water rights such settlers may gain the right to thou lands b by the tho reclamation of one acre In their tracts b by means of a L vohl J N Teal of Oregon created some hr by tho of a resolution condemning the of oC the plumage or of birds for the tho decoration of headgear and aud asking fur further titer ther protection of birds In the vest wesl where their activities are arc a relief from the ravages of Insects lu In the tho forests George Otis Smith director of the United States geological survey on the classification of public lands Irli atlon In South Sonth Dakota was dis discussed cussed h ity S lI H Lea state engineer of oC South Sonth Dakota Elliot president L of oC the tho Northern Pacific railroad spoke on the thc opportunities In the West Yost Mi with a of bitterness In his voice oice said that while the rail railway railway way Is second only to the farmer as asa asa a of tile the nations resources A Abul but bul few fow arise to Lo say ay WeB done dono thou good and fait faithful L Thi settlement of the railway lems is not hot to Loo be round found In the tho for passengers should ho bo three e cents a hilL bitt In a population which will take tAko o of natural resources anti and not nol le he afraid of more than eight hours labor a day lie lIo commended President Taft TaCt for or his de demand mantl mand for e among government employs and nd ed that In the west thore Is no success s for or the man who wants eight hours labor and lots or of liol i days s Mr Elliott Elliot l said ho he believed the an wor to too problem of oC keeping tho thio youth on farm lies In the tue Irrigation projects of oC the Pt |