PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. | 



LEADING DELEGATES AT THE CONVENTION. 



E. R. MOSES, OF KANSAS, 



Chairman of the National Executive 



Committee. 



THE election of 

 E. R. Moses, 

 of Great Bend, 

 Kan., as chairman 

 of the Executive 

 Committee at the 

 recent Fourth Na- 

 tional Irrigation 

 Congress, was a 

 tribute to the grow- 

 ing importance of 

 the great plains 

 country. Mr. Moses 

 has long been one 

 of the foremost rep- 

 resentatives of irri- 

 gation in Kansas, 

 but his field of work 

 is now broadened 

 and there is every 

 reason to believe 

 that in his hands 

 the work of the 

 propaganda will be 

 carried forward 

 on a scale commen- 

 surate with the 



merits of the irrigation cause. Being thoroughly famil- 

 iar with the irrigation problems which confront the 

 friends of irrigation in the semi-arid region it is natu- 

 rally expected that these will first receive his attention, 

 but no section of the Great West will be overlooked in 

 the campaign plans which Mr. Moses is now formulat- 

 ing. In this work he will be ably assisted by his friend, 

 Judge J. S. Emery, the National Lecturer and the 

 other members of the National Committee. 



AMONG the many warm 

 friends of irrigation 

 holding official positions 

 on the Western railroads, 

 John E. Frost stands in the 

 front rank. Early recogni- 

 zing the great importance of 

 the subject he has steadily 

 and persistently advocated 

 the settling and developing 

 of the Western country under 

 a practical system of irriga- 

 tion. Being a man of large 

 ideas and with the energy 

 and perseverance to carry 

 them out to the fullest ex- 

 tent he has attained con- 

 JOHNE. FROST, siderable prominence and as 

 President of the Congress pvnrPHsVnn nf thp pstPAm 

 and Land Commissioner of aa expression ol tne esteem 

 the A. T. & S. F. R. R. in which he is held he was 



unanimously elected president of the Fourth Na- 

 tional Irrigation Congress, over which he presided 

 with ability and dignity. 



JOHN E. SAINT, 

 of Albuquerque, Chairman of 

 Local Committee. 



ON every side are heard 

 the praises of the work 

 accomplished by the 

 Entertainment Committee of 

 the recent Congress, of which 

 John E. Saint was chairman. 

 The hospitality was dis- 

 pensed in true Western style 

 and delegates and represen- 

 tatives were pleased and grat- 

 ified at the manner in which 

 they were received and cared 

 for during their visit. Mr. 

 Saint and the other members 

 of the committee were un- 

 tiring in their efforts to ac- 

 commodate and entertain the 

 large number of visitors. 



THOS. M. KNIGHT, 



of Missouri. 



Member of the National Ex- 

 ecutive Committee. 



EMINENT among the 

 members of the 

 engineering pro- 

 fession who devote their 

 time to the solution of ir- 

 rigation problems is Thos. 

 M. Knight of Kansas 

 City. An authority on all 

 matters relating to the 

 particular branch of the 

 profession in which he is 

 interested, his services 

 are always in demand. 

 At the present time he is 

 the chief engineer of a 

 large enterprise and the 

 consulting engineer of 

 several others. At the 

 Albuquerque Congress he 

 was re-elected as Mis- 

 souri's representative on 

 the National Committee. 



J. F. MUELLER. 



Editor of the Milling 

 Magazine 



THE genial editor of the 

 Milling Magazine has be- 

 come a convert to irriga- 

 tion and is now preaching the 

 small irrigated farm idea through 

 the columns of his journal. He 

 believes that the millers will 

 benefit by the practice of irriga- 

 tion for several reasons. The 

 grain grown will be of a better 

 quality, and the yield per acre 

 will be greatly increased. The 

 farms will be reduced in area 

 and clustered around the village 

 and therefore the distance from 

 the farm to the mill will not be 



so great, thus saving much of the farmers' time. 



