"We extend our hearty and sincerethanks to the people of Idaho and par-ticularly to the people of Boise fortheir splendid welcome, kindly courte-sy and marked hospitality and we shallcarry to our respective homes themost pleasant recollections of our visitto this state and its capital city.1

'

"Our thanks are tendered to Hon.L. W. Shurtliff, Senator Thomas H.Carter and Governors Chamberlain andMead for the able and impartial man-ner in which they have presided overour deliberations. We also extendour thanks to Hon. Montle B. Gwlnnand to the other executive officers fortheir untiring work and efforts In mak-

ing this one of the most interestingand instructive sessions in the historyof irrigation congresses.

"We extend thanks to the localpress and the press in general for itsgenerous notice and fair consideration.

"We thoroughly appreciate the in-terest shown by President Roosevelt in

irrigation, as evidenced by his letter tothis congress, and extend to him ourthanks, for his untiring support of na-

tional reclamation of the arid and semiarid lands; and we express our heartyappreciation of the patriotic address ofVice President Fairbanks, wherein asa broad-minded American he so un-qualifiedly indorsed the purposes ofthis congress, and having in view thebest Interests of our entire nation soforcibly urged the merit of the recla-mation of arid lands.

LOTS OF THANKS

"Therefore, We prorest against anyfurther legislation favoring Philippine

sugar and urge that legislative agitationand attacks on the sugar production ofthis country cease, that this great in-dustry of arid America may be fullydeveloped.

"Inasmuch as the sugar beet indus-try in irrigated America returns to thefarmers an annual revenue of over $20,-000,000, and as the production ,athome of the sugar we now import fromthe tropics would afford our farmers anadditional market for beets amountingto $100,000,000. and as it has beenurged that the United States congress

further stimulate the sugar industry ofthe Philippine islands to produce all ora portion of the sugar we of arid Amer-ica had hoped to produce.

CONCERNING SUGAR BEETS

••We recommend that the congressof the United States consider the ex-tension of the jurisdiction of the UnitedStates courts to provide for the judicialdetermination of water rights on Inter-state streams.

dorslng Zea Maize as the national floralemblem.

'•Therefore, We rescind said reso-lution.

El Centro Bakery and Meat MarketThe bakery and meat market is now

completed and we invite all to call inand see us. Special attention will begiven to the cantaloupe packers andgrowers to call on us and get yoursupply of bread and meat and if you

want a pie we have it. Don't forgetthe place, back of the Franklin hotel.

"This committee shall have thepower to appoint a secretary at a sal-ary of not to exceed $25 per month,

and to incur an expense of not to ex-

ceed the sum of $200 for stamps andIncidentals, including stationery, whichsums shall be paid as other expenses

of this congress are paid and said com-mittee shall make a fullreport of its

<work at the session of this congress for

„ 1907.

"We recommend that the presidentof this congress appolir a committeeconsisting of five members of this con-gress, whose duty it shall be to securethe widest publicity of scientific infor-mation concerning irrigation, with theview of educating the new settler on

irrigated lands in the proper use ofwater, stimulating the older users ofwater to a fullappreciation of the valueof Improved methods, and to securethe publication throughout the UnitedStates of such information as willserveto inculcate a fulj recognition of theadvantages of irrigated agriculture.'

FOR SECURING INFORMATION

"Whereas, the building of irrigationworks is but a means to an end, sincethe ultimate success of all irrigationenterprises, whether public or private,depends on the intelligence, skill andindustry of those who settle on thelands, and

"Whereas, The organization offarmers' clubs, the holding of farmers'Institutes, the establishment of agricul-tural and industrial high schools, thecarrying on of practical "experiments

for the benefit of the farmer, and thetraining given by the agricultural col-leges and experiment stations are allvaluable agencies in the industrial up-building of rural communities in irri-

gated districts:"We heartily commend and Indorse

the work of these various agencies, andurge upon the legislatures of all west-ern states and territories the granting

of Increased appropriations for the pur-poses.

INDORSE FARMERS' CLUBS

"The congress desires to express itshigh appreciation of the national irri-gation law, and hails with pleasure theopportunities afforded under its benefi-cient provisions for home- making andhopes that the several governmentalenterprises now under contemplation,as well as under construction, will bepushed to a speedy and successfulcompletion.

"We heartily approve the efficientand thorough work of the reclamationservice in carrying on the work of na-tional reclamation where works have

been commenced and are now beingexecuted and have the fullest confi-dence in the honesty and ability of that

service."We recommend that the reclama-

tion service and its representatives co-

operate withstate officers in mattersaffecting the states' landed Interests.

••This congress Indorses and com-

mends the earnest and efficient workoi the United States weather bureau ofthe department of agriculture in estab-lishing a highly useful climatologicalservice in each state which work hasproven of great benefit to the irriga-tion development of the west.

"We heartily commend the excellentwork being carried forward by the irri-gation and drainage investigations ofthe office of the experiment stations,

United States department of agricul-ture, and recommend the continuanceand extension of this work and urge

upon the United States congress thecontinuance of the appropriations forthis service upon a liberal basis as an

essential feature of the thorough devel-opment of the arid west.

Following are the resolutions rec-

ommended by the committee on reso-

lutions of the fourteenth National Irri-gation congress, which closed its ses-sion Thursday, as adopted by the con-gress:

"We recommend the enactment of

a federal law providing penalties forunlawful interference with federal head-gates and other federal irrigation works.

"Whereas, the eleventh NationalIrrigation congress, inSeptember, 1903,

Inadvertently adopted a resolution ir\-

"Therefore, we heartily indorse theInvestigations along these lines by the

department of agriculture and recom-mend the dissemination of informationas to better methods of soil agricul-ture, supplemented by the establish-ment cf experimental stations and mod-el farms in the newly developing dis-tricts of the arid and semi-arid regions.

"Whereas, The same principles willenable successful cultivation by dryfarming of immense areas, the tillageof which is now precarious or imprac-ticable;

"Whereas, the Intelligent conserva-tion of soil moisture will promote anincreased duty of water under projectsalready developed and its extension to

additional lands adjacent thereto, and

RECOMMEND HARMONY4 Believing that too much capital,

public and private, cannot and will notbe invested in the reclamation of aridlands, it is the sense of this congressthat government as well as private en-terprise should not unnecessarily inter-fere with nor prevent government en-terprises from constructing reservoirsor other works for reclaiming aridlands.

••Section 2—

The right of selectionas herein provided shall apply to landsrelinquished within reservoir sites to beconstructed under the reclamation actand in such cases the right of selectionmay be exercised whenever deemedadvisable by the secretary of the Interi-or.

"That subject to rules and. regula-tions to be prescribed by the secretaryof the interior; the owner, in fee sm-ple, or a claimant under any general

or special law of the United States, ofany land included within the limits of areservoir site, now or hereafter approv-ed by the secretary of the interior un-der the provisions of the act of con-gress entitled, *An Act to Amend theTimber Culture Laws, and for OtherPurposes,' approved March 3, 1891,

and acts amendatory thereof, may, atthe option of such owner or claimant,relinquish or convey such land, so in-cluded in an approved reservoir site, tothe United States and upon the com-pletion of the reservoir so approved,

personally select in lieu of the land sorelinquished or conveyed an equal area,

as nearly as possible, in compact form

of the unappropriated non-timberedpublic domain of the United Statessubject to homestead entry and notwithdrawn under the reclamation act,

in the same state or territory, and thesecretary of the interior shall, by dueand appropriate muniments of title,place such owner or claimant in the

same relation as to the United Statesto the title,possession and right of pos-session of the lieu land thus selectedas such owner or claimant sustained tothe land relinquished at the time therelinqulshment was made.

"We favor the passage of senatebill No. 4624, last session, 59th con-gress, as herein amended, said amend-ed bill being as follows:

"We regard the conservation ofground waters for irrigation as a mat-ter of so much importance as to callfor protective legislation.

"We pledge our earnest support to

the United States forest service In itsefforts to maintain and improve ourwater sheds, where irrigation is neces-sary, on the streams affected, by re-newing and protecting the forests uponthem. We also indorse the practical

policy of forest protection through rea-sonable use, adopted by the forest ser-vice.

TO SUPPORT FOREST SERVICE

"We urge upon the United. Statesgovernment the immediate necessityof solving the various problems nowpending inconnection with the opera-tion of the reclamation act, relatingto the use of international streams.

Use of International StreamsRESOLUTIONSAdepted by the fourteenth Irrigation

Congress

Meat MarketW. W. Masten has madearrangements to supplymeat to customers fromthe Hotel Franklin for thetime being. Ameat shopwillbe arrange for shortlyby Mr.Masten.Fresh meat always on handat the

Hotel Franklin,El Centro, Cal.

HEDDEN & HULL

*T*TJ Cement WorkEstimates FurnishedOn Application

IMPERIAL- - -

CALIFORNIA

OFFICE OF

L. M. LYONRepresenting

THE LYON BROS. CO., H. O. COQQINS CO..New YorkCity Pittsburgh Pa.

California and Colorado Cantaloupe DistributorsSelling and Distributing Agents for the

Brawley Cantaloupe Growers' AssociationBrawley, California

Holtville Cantaloupe Growers' AssociationHoltville,California

El Centro Cantaloupe Growers' AssociationEl Centro, California

We have agents in every city in the United States that can handleand sell satisfactory car lots of cantaloupes and these sub-agents dis-tribute to reach all smaller points accessible.

We aie the original distributors of the Rocky Ford, Colorado, can-taloupes, and opened up and established them on allEastern markets.

We have contracted with the old originalRocky Ford Associationof Rocky Ford, Colorado, to distribute their crop of 1906, making theBth season" we have been appointed by unanimous vote, their sellingand distributing agents. We also have contracts with Manzanola,Weitzer, Newdale, Fairmount, La Junta, Granada, Amity and Holly,making NINE Associations, covering the original territory, comprisingthe Rocky Ford Cantaloupe District of Colorado.

NOTE—

Our Mr. L.M.Lyon will take personal charge of theBrawley office on May 10 and remain during the shipping season, anduntilMay 1 his address willbe 830 Washington Street, New YorkCity.

Mr. Peter P. Hovely is in charge of the Brawley office until Mr.Lyon arrives.

ICEThe Holton

Power ComrnyAT THEIR CE MANUFACTURING

PLANT AT

ElCentro, Cal.IS PREPARED TO FURNISH

ICE AND

REFRIGERATIONIn any quantity and at reasonable* rates

Ice will be delivered in thetowns of Brawley, Holtville,Imperial, El Centro and Cal=exico inany quantity desiredand for less prices than ischarged by anyone else.

For information and prices, address

HOLTON POWERCOfIPANY

El Centro, California