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Show The Irrigation Congress The 1912 session of the Irrigation Congress which convenes at Salt Lake city for a four day session on September 30th will be the anniversary annivers-ary of two important events. First it will be the twenty-first birthday of the Congress itself and in addition it will celebrate the sixty- fifth anniversary an-niversary of the inception of Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon irrigation. Oddly enough both of these anniversaries will be celebrated cele-brated at the very place where they originated for it was at Salt Lake City that the National Irrigation Congress first sprang into being and at the same place the first water was turned onto the land for irrigation irriga-tion purposes by Anglo-Saxons. j It will not be upon its historic significance sig-nificance that the coming session of the Congress will depend for force or popularity. Its usefulness has long ago been firmly established and the foremost questions in connection with irrigation have been throughly discussed in open session with the result that its deliberations have have shaped the actions not only of our own but of Foreign governments. govern-ments. In spite of its past accomplish- (Continued on Lasi l'age) Irrigation Congress (Continued from Front Puse) m?nts the coming Congress will have an opportunity to deal with some of the greatest questions ever presented pre-sented for consideration ranging all the way from state righls to waters flowing through its territory down to the best means of building a hedge .of safety around irrigation finance and the surest methods of shutting out "wild cat' 'and ' 'get rich quick" operators from Irrigation speculation. These important subjects ! will j be handled by the greatest minds' in America and their studies along these lines will be presented for the benefit of irrigationists at large. The interest already shown for-tells for-tells a larger gathering of delegates than has marked any former Congress Con-gress and Salt Lake City is preparing prepar-ing a most unique plan of entertainment entertain-ment which will be specially emblematic em-blematic of the Inter-mountain Empire. Em-pire. These plans include an opening open-ing session filled with magnificient music including a rendition of the famous Ode to Irrigation by a chor-ous chor-ous of four hundred accompanied by the historic Tabernacle organ and orchestra of fifty pieces. Then there will be a mammoth electric pageant led by the Queen of irrigation Miss Lucille May Francke, the Wizard of the Wasatch and their attendant suites, the four days of enjoyment ending with a grand ball at Hotel Utah. ,, i : -1 |