THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Frank Robbins, of San Diego, was elected secretary 

 of the commission. 



THE COLORADO COMMISSION. 



Committeeman Rocho is to be congratulated on the 

 character of the commission he has selected for the 

 great State of Colorado. It consists of L. J. Carpen- 

 ter, Platt Rogers, J. Sire Greene and W. S. Carpenter. 

 It would be difficult to improve on these names. 

 Prof. Carpenter is the head of the department of ir- 

 rigation engineering in the State Agricultural College 

 at Fort Collins and a man of large ability and expe- 

 rience. He enjoys a national reputation among the 

 friends of irrigation. Platt Rogers, ex-mayor of 

 Denver, is probably the ablest irrigation lawyer in 

 Colorado. J. Sire Greene is the former State engi- 

 neer and made a great record in that office. He stands 

 at the top of his profession. W. S. Carpenter lives 

 at Cortez and is a very good representative of his 

 section. Wonderful results are to be confidently an- 

 ticipated from the work of the Colorado Commission. 



NEW MEXICO AND MONTANA. 



Committeeman Downing, of New Mexico, has 

 named his commission, as follows: Frank S. Coolidge 

 of Olio, C. B. Eddy of Eddy, O. H. Hadley of 

 Watrous, W. S. Hopewell of Hillsborough. 



Committeeman Burton, of Montana, has named the 

 following gentlemen for his commission: A. C. Bot- 

 kin of Helena, Paris Gibson of Great Falls, W. H. 

 Sutherlin of White Sulphur Springs, W. A. Clark of 

 Butte. 



Both of these commissions are full of good timber. 

 C. B. Eddy, of New Mexico, is the head of the large 

 enterprise in the Pecos Valley. Col. Botkin, of 

 Helena, is a lawyer of great ability and the author of 

 the memorial to congress, prepared under the in- 

 structions of the Salt Lake convention. W. A. Clark, 

 of Butte, was for two years Montana's member of the 

 National Executive Committee. He is one of the 

 foremost men of his State. 



PROFESSOR BOGGS RESIGNS. 



THE AGE regrets to announce the resignation of 

 Professor Edward M. Boggs, as vice chairman of 

 the National Committee, and member for Arizona. 

 He assigns as a reason the fact that his work as a 

 member of the faculty of the University of Arizona, 

 in connection with private cases, will absorb all his 

 time. The resignation is a real loss to the work. 

 Ex-Governor R. C. Powers, of Phcenix, is suggested 

 as a man who would vigorously represent the impor- 

 tant "State of Arizona." 



HURRY UP THE COMMISSIONS. 



Beside Arizona, commissions remain to be ap- 

 pointed for Kansas, Texas, Utah and Washington up 

 to this writing. Irrigation is a comparatively new 

 interest in Texas, and in Washington Dr. N. G. 



Blalock has just had notice of his appointment. In 

 Kansas the State Association is covering the field so 

 thoroughly as to render less important the immediate 

 choice of the commission. In Utah, however, the de- 

 lay is deplorable. That territory has an enormous 

 interest in the irrigation policies that will be adopted, 

 and its long and successful experience renders it par- 

 ticularly able to enlighten the next Congress through 

 the report of its commission. Governor Thomas is 

 capable of selecting a very able commission and his 

 action is awaited with the utmost interest. 



THE NEBRASKA CONVENTION. 



The irrigation convention held at North Platte, 

 Neb., Dec. 19 and 20, was attended by about 400 dele- 

 gates, representing the States from the Missouri river 

 to the Wyoming line. Dr. S. D. Mercer, of Omaha, a 

 gentleman of such prominence in political and finan- 

 cial circles as to render his attendance a significant 

 evidence of the extent of public interest in the sub- 

 ject, was elected chairman. 



The committee on organization, R. B. Howell, of 

 Omaha, chairman, reported in favor of a permanent 

 association being formed to cooperate with those of 

 other States, to meet in December of each year, the 

 officers of which for the ensuing year shall be: I. A, 

 Fort, Lincoln county, president; J. G. P. Hildebrand, 

 Lancaster county, secretary; P. Montensen, Valley 

 county, treasurer; and an executive committee, con- 

 sisting of the president, Martin Gering of Scott's 

 Bluff, R. B. Howell of Douglas, D. Zimmerman of 

 Dundy, D. H. Cronin of Holt, E. M. Searles of Keith, 

 together with a vice-president from each county. 

 This report was unanimously adopted. 



Among the prominent persons present were: Gov- 

 ernor Crounse, E. R. Moses, president, and J. L. 

 Bristow, secretary of the Kansas State Irrigation As- 

 sociation; Martin Mohler, secretary of the Kansas 

 State Board of Agriculture; Judge J. S. Emery, To- 

 peka, lecturer for the National Irrigation Association, 

 and Donald W. Campbell, the well-known irrigation 

 engineering authority of Colorado. 



Judge Emery, D. W. Campbell and J. L. Bristow 

 delivered addresses, all of which were practical, en- 

 thusiastic and yet fair statements of the problems in- 

 volved. Government aid was favored for surveying 

 and laying out districts, which shall properly combine 

 water sheds and basins, give an intelligent idea of 

 available water on and under the ground, and in gen- 

 eral demonstrate the practicability of irrigation. Also 

 aid for the establishment of experimental stations was 

 advocated, storm water storage, pumping water by 

 electricity or wind power, small farms, collection of 

 farmers of irrigation districts into villages, and the 

 advantages of the whole system of irrigation were 

 eloquently set forth in these addresses. 



