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Vol. XX.II, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, Tuesday, July 18, 1903. XO. r : IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The Thirteenth National Irriga tion Congress in Portland Aug. 21-4, 1905. The official call for this great congress has been sent out and it is to be hoped that matters may be arranged so that Benton may have a respectable representation present. This is really a matter of great importance and in order to give an idea of its magnitude we quote a part of Chief Engin eer Newell's letter to Torn Rich ardson the latter is manager of the Portland Commercial Club. The letter in part is as follows: "la connection with the call for the Trans-Mississippi Com mercial Congress, held here August 16 to 19 inclusive, and the National Irrigation Congress, to be held here August 21-24, 1905, I desire to suggest that you extend a cordial invitation to all persons to visit the Irrigation Ex hibit of the Reclamation Service. This is located in the Forestry and Irrigation Building, near the main ' Government Building on the Island. A special building was erected for the joint occu pancy of the Forestry Service and the Reclamation Service, and in this are placed models, photographs and other exhibits, showing not merely the intimate relation of forestry and irriga tion, but bringing out the magni tude of the work undertaken by the Government in both of these lines. This is the first attempt made by the Government to ex hibit its operations under the Re clamation Act of June 17, 1902. In the three years which have elapsed since the passage of this act the Reclamation Service has been organized, consisting of up wards of 400 engineers, assistants and experts in various lines; each man carefully selected through competative civil service exam ination. At the same time sur veys have been carried on in all parts of the West, and the relaT tive merits of various projects compared. Construction has been pusned iorwara on tne most im portant of these projects and con tracts involving the expenditure of manv million dollars have been entered into. 'There is now available in the Reclamation Fund the sum of nearly $30,000,000. Plans have been made for the expenditure of this amount in fourteen Western States and three Territories. The work is greatly scattered, each project being usually hundreds of miles from any other project, hence great responsibility .has been put upon the local engin eers in charge. In the three years which have elapsed the great questions of policy have been outlined and works have been designed whose construction will require at least ten years. "On the Seventeenth of June, the third anniversary of-the Re clamation Act, occurred the for mal opening of the first Govern ment project constructed under this law, the Truckee-Carson Project, by which 250,000 acres of desert will be brought under ditch. It is expected that oh each succeeding, anniversary of the Act at least one large project will be completed and lands open ed to public settlement and cul tivation. 1 'The undertakings alreadyout lined, while not as expensive as the Panama Canal, involves as great, if not greater, questions of engineering and business judg ment. The law requires not merely that irrigation works shall be built, more than this, the country reclaimed must be set tled in small tracts and the cost of the work ultimately returned in ten annual installments. There is probably no undertaking in . the United States upon which the future of the nation so much . depends. The successful execu tion of the Reclaimation Act means not merely creating thou sands of homes, but more than this, it results in upbuilding great home markets for manufactured products and greatly increases the value of all the transporta tion and other industries of the entire country. "The exhibit arranged at Port land is intended to bring out some of the great features, and at the same time show in detail how the work is planned and ex ecuted. One of the most nota ble engineers of the Reclamation Service, Mr. Edmund T. Perkins, has been elected to supervise the exhibit. At the time of the holding of the Trans-Mississippi Congress and the National Irri- gational Congress in Portland, he will, with various assistants, give personal attention to ex plaining to tne delegates tne ex hibit and will be prepared to fur nish additional facts as to the Reclaimation Services and its plans." The official call for this meet ing is as follows and explains all about how many delegates the various states, counties, cities and societies are entitled to send as representatives: The Thirteenth National Irri gation Congress is hereby to be called to meet in Portland. Ore gon, August 2 1st to 24th, inclu sive, 1905, convening in the Auditorium, Lewis and Clark Exposition Grounds.' All who are interested in de veloping the great natural resour ces of the country, extending the habitable area, and increasing the products of the land, insur ing greater stability and more prosperous conditions, making oc cupancy upon the land more at tractive, tne extension or the in ternal trade and commerce, and the - dissemination of a wider knowledge of the great economic movement which has for its ulti mate object the upbuilding of an empire within the borders of a great nation, are invited to attend this Congress The organization of the Con gress is as follows: , The permanent officers of the Congress, including the Chair man of the Sections. '. Members of the United States Seriate and House of Representa tives. Governors of States and Terri tories. Embassadors, Ministers and other representalives of foreign nations and colonies. Members of State and .Terri torial Irrigation Commissions, and State Commissioners of Ag riculture and Horticulture. Fifteen delegates to be appoint ed by the Governor of each State and Territory. Ten delegates to be appointed by the Mayor of each city of more than 25,000 population. Five delegates to be appointed by the Mayor of each city of less than 25,000 population. Five delegates to be appointed by the Chairman of the govern ing boaid of each County. ' Two delegates, each duly ac credited by the Chamber of Com merce, Board of Trade, Commer cial Club or other commercial body. Two delegates, each duly ac credited by any organized irriga tion, agricultural or horticultur al society. Two delegates, each duly ac credited by any regularly organ ized Society of Engineers. Two delegates, each duly ac credited by any agricultural col lege or college or university hav ing a chair of hydraulic engineer ing, forestry or other subject re lating to the general purpose of the congress. It is respectfully suggested that in the appointment of delegates, persons should be selected who are sincerely interested in and purpose attending the Congress, and that appointments be made as early as possible. The work of the congress has been so greatly enlarged through the increased interest in matters pertaining to irrigation, that the Concluded on Second Page. THOSE RESOLUTIONS. Matters Resolved at the Good Roads Convention. Considerable discussion has oc curred since the meeting of the National Good Roads Associa tion in this city on the Fourth of July as to the import of the reso lutions passed. In order that all may know just what these resolu tions are, we hereby submit them: Be it resolved that we recom mend that the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College of Oregon, located at Corvallis, shall take into consideration the establishment of a thorough de paitment of Engineering which shall comprehend a special course in educating the students how to construct, scientifically, earth, gravel, macadam and oiled roads. We further recommend that the next State Legislature shall make a special appropriation to eq-up the Agricultural College with sufficient and necessary funds to establish a complete engineering department, that the branches of road, culvert and bridge con struction may be thoroughly and successfully taught; be it further Resolved, That .we commend the attention of State, County and City officials to the necessity of utilizing the labor of all able bodied, defective classes, who are known as tramps and vagrants. We believe all such unfortun ates should not drift at will from county to county and state to state and live in idleness and neggary- .We further believe that municipal, county and slate laws should be speedily enacted (where such action has not already been taken)to arrest this itiner ant class under the vagrancy laws and put them to wcrk upon the public streets and roads. We further recommend that the con victs in the penitentiary should be used in preparing material for road building: and when it seems feasible to the warden and Prison Board the convicts shall be used in constructing roads, thus re moving the labor of con victs from the least known competition with free labor. Twelve southern states and some northern states have adopted this method of util izing convict labor. We find those states are building sub stantial roads, economically and to gicat advaritage. We espt cial ly commend the cowrse of the siates of California, Illinois, North and South Carolina, Tex as and other states, in using con vict labor in preparing material and placing it upon the public highways. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Benton County Good Roads Convention: Your committee on resolutions respect fully submit the following: be it Resolved, That the citizensof Corvallis and community fully appreciate the courtesy and hon or conferred on them by the offi cers of the National Good Roads Association in the selection of this city as the place for holding a .National liooa Koaos Associa tion convention and the able ef forts of the officers of the asso ciation in presenting the. cause of good roads to our people; be it further . Resolved, Inat this conven tion extend its hearty thanks to the Commercial Club, the City Council, the Ciic Club, the may or and other citizens of the city and county for ananging for and carrying out' the details of this convention; be it further Resolved, That we heartily thank the railway companies of the west for the assistance they have already given to the good roads movement, and we real ze and appreciate their disposition toco-operate with us in the pro motion of the cause of good r'ds upon which we are now enter ing; be it Resolved, That the citizens of Corvallis and Benton county rep resented in this convention fuily appreciate the value and import ance of good roads to the moral, educational and material progress of our people; and realize that the time is ripe for the general adop tioT of a policy of construction of hard roads throughout this coun ty. We endorse the idea of good reads and of the education of the people to the importance of good roads and to the construction of such roads as rapidly as the means of our people will permit; be it further ' Resolved, That we believe that any experimental work car ried on in this state by practical demonstration will be of primary 'and substantial value to the im provement of the highways of this state and ' will consequently enhance the value of all our, prop erty, rural and urban alike; be it further Resolved, That we recom mend to the careful attention of the city council of Corvallis, the board of Supervisors of Btnton county, and to the highway com missioners, the suggestions made in this convention as to the pur chase and use of road machinery in the construction of roads, and the building of bridges and cul verts of a more substantial type; be it further . - Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the city of Corvallis and Benton county should be represented at the Na tional Good Roads Convention to be held in St.- Louis, Mo., the third Wednesday of November next, and to that end we recom mend that the Benton County Good Roads Association appoint one delegate, and that the Com mercial Club appoint one dele gate, and that the expenses of these delegates, so far as practi cable, be borne by these various organizations; be it further Resolved, That the thanks i-f this convention be extended to the various speakers who have addressed the convention. 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