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Show TO INTEREST UTAH IN 'NORTHWEST IRRIGATION SEATTLE. May 27. A sub-committee, representative of tho joint committee com-mittee appointed by the Seattle. Ta-coma, Ta-coma, Portland and Spokane chambers cham-bers of commerce, will visit Boise, Salt Lake City and Helena, to Interest Idaho, Ida-ho, Utah and Montana officials In the proposed irrigation and development congress to be held In Seattle September Septem-ber 13 and 14, it was announced today. Tho meeting will bo for tho pur-poso pur-poso of encouraging the reclamation of arid lands of the Pacific northwest, and particularly the Columbia basin project, which covqrs approximately two million acres John Barton Payne, secretary of tle interior, and E. T. Meredith, secretary of agriculture, will be invited to at-tond at-tond tho congress. |