The Anaconda Standard

THE JANUARY CONVENTION
The state irrigation convention is to be held in the city of Helena on Thursday, January 7. The object is to have action taken in behalf of the state on the plan for irrigation which was favored by resolutions adopted at the convention lately held in Salt Lake. If the Salt Lake resolution finds favor with the delegates in the Helena convention, Montana will be expected to join in a request to congress for legislation agreeable to its terms.
It will be remembered that, in the Salt Lake convention, the resolution in question was not adopted until the debate had been exhaustive—its terms were not satisfactory to all the delegates. The plan is that all lands now a part of the public domain, except mineral lands, be granted in trust, upon such conditions as may serve the public interest, to the separate states and territories, for the purpose of irrigation. In a general way, this is the plan which appears to be in favor in the land office at Washington.
The question is one which, in an especial way, merits attention in this state. The delegates to the convention have been named by the commissioners of the sixteen counties, and if the response is what it ought to be there will be nearly two hundred men in attendance when the hour for organization comes. It is hoped that those who have been named to sit in this convention will make it a point to attend.