EDITORIAL. S 



is SO much money expended for pumping water for irrigation. Some 

 of the pumps are said to be raising- 30,000,000 gallons of water per day 

 from a depth of 500 feet, using coal that costs $10 a ton. The expense 

 of irrigating in some cases reaches as high as $125 per acre annually. 

 Preliminary reports will be rendered by Professor Knapp and Dr. 

 Stubbs early in September, in order that the necessary steps may be 

 taken for inaugurating the work as far as the appropriations for this 

 year will allow, and the estimates made for another year. Detailed 

 reports will be presented later in the fall. It is hoped that these 

 reports, by two men so well qualified to judge of the situation, will 

 enable the Department to institute station work in these new posses- 

 sions on a basis which will secure the greatest direct benetit to their 

 agriculture. 



