. Conservation. Forests and forestry. IPOWES WATC SOILS AND K^ilf im. I?R1^ Vol. XV JULY, 1909 No. 7 IRRIGATION IN THE INLAND EMPIRE IRRIGATION by Government proj- ects covering more than ,000 acres of lands in the West, and by private projects covering some ii,- 000,000; possibilities under intensive cultivation and the advantages of com- munity life in localities where orchards, fields, and gardens are watered by artifi- cial means, and problems of forestry, deep waterways, reclamation of swamp lands, good roads, conservation of re- sources and home-building, all will be brought promine
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. IPOWES WATC SOILS AND K^ilf im. I?R1^ Vol. XV JULY, 1909 No. 7 IRRIGATION IN THE INLAND EMPIRE IRRIGATION by Government proj- ects covering more than ,000 acres of lands in the West, and by private projects covering some ii,- 000,000; possibilities under intensive cultivation and the advantages of com- munity life in localities where orchards, fields, and gardens are watered by artifi- cial means, and problems of forestry, deep waterways, reclamation of swamp lands, good roads, conservation of re- sources and home-building, all will be brought prominently to the fore during the seventeenth sessions of the National Irrigation Congress. This meeting will be held in Spokane, August 9 to 14, when between 4,000 and 5,000 accredited del- egates and representative business men of the United States and Canada, Eu- rope, the Latin republics, China, and Japan will meet under the presidency of George Eames Barstow of Texas. The board of control, through its ex- ecutive committee, headed by R. lu- singer, is arranging a comprehensive program, including addresses by states- men, scientists, bankers, and experts in their various lines of endeavor, and dis- cussions by delegates^. In addition. there will be demonstrations by officials of the United States Reclamation Serv- ice of the scientific application of moist- ure. These will take place in the state armory, where the congress meets. There will also be parades of prog- ress, showing the development of the Northwest, and a march in review by the industrial and irrigation army of 10,000 men, representing the various districts in which intensified farming is practised. The thoroughfares and buildings in the city will be decorated and illuminated by myriads of electric lights, and there will be massed exhibits of the resources of the country, the un- furling of the colors of the nations, patriotic airs by massed bands, the sing- ing of the irrigation ode by a large chorus of trained sing
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