Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — IRRIGATION CONGRESS MEETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IRRIGATION CONGRESS MEETS.

Judge Best of Washington Represented the Administration. The sixth annual national irrigation congress conVened Tuesday in Lincoln, Neb. When President C. B. Booth of

Los Angeles called the convention to order in University Hall, 121 delegates, representing thirteen States, responded to the call for their credentials. Gov. Holcomb delivered an address of welcome, which was followed by the president’s annual address. Among those seated there were: J ames A. Davis, Chicago;

Commander Booth-Tucker, New York; Judge Emery F. Best, Washington; F. 11. N’ewal, Washington; Dr. Clarke Gapen, Chicago; C. C. Wright, Los Angeles, Cal.; John E. Frost, Kansas, and Senator Carey of Wyoming. Judge Best was there as the representative of the Federal Government to submit a plan of donating all arid lands to the various States in which they are located in return for their reclamation. This will wipe out the account of the Government with the arid lands, and it is said the Government thinks this desirable. W. J. Bryan addressed the delegates on the agricultural situation.

S. A. HOLCOMB.