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THE EDITOR'S DRAWER 



A CHICAGO combination will reclaim 

 10,000 acres of land in Idaho. 



BLOOMING UTAH, the forty-fifth star, is 

 welcome as the flowers in June. 



COLORADO has a great opportunity just 

 now to market her agricultural lands. 



CHICAGO is becoming the mining center 

 of the whole North and West iron as well 

 as the precious metals. 



CONNECTICUT leads New England in re- 

 sorting to irrigation and all the other 

 States are falling into line. 



THIS Congress will possibly submit its 

 differences on tariff and silver to arbitra- 

 tion arbitration at the polls. 



THE great salt springs and salt beds of 

 Wyoming are abandoned because of the 

 cheap imported Liverpool salt. 



ONE sure way of securing new settlers 

 is to secure new railroads and railroad ex- 

 tensions, and through connections. 



SECRETARY MORTON opposes the use of 

 public money in solving irrigation prob- 

 lems in the West. But that gentleman 

 will not be in office forever. 



THE great growth of manufactures in 

 the far Western and Southwestern States 

 within a year past is astonishing. Not- 

 withstanding the tariff insanity, even 

 woolen mills are among the industries. 



ALL through the central Western States 

 and the East and South, and also in 

 Canada, the agricultural press has taken 

 up the subject of irrigation, a fact that is 

 most flattering to THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WHICH State or Territory wants the 

 printers' colony? The many printers (or 

 ex- printers) conferred with seem to pre- 

 fer New Mexico. They will make good 

 citizens and, with their intelligence, must 

 become scientific farmers. 



WASHINGTON and South Dakota have al- 

 ready followed out the plan of the North- 

 western Immigration Bureau and organ- 

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ized State bureaus, with branches in each 

 county, and the other States in the north- 

 western organization will do likewise. 



IT is now suggested that Wyoming, 

 Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, 

 organize a great immigration bureau after 

 the style of the one organized at St. Paul. 



THE Illinois Farmers' Institute urges 

 the farmers of the State to make a special 

 effort to secure the election of such mem- 

 bers of the Legislature as will make laws 

 to equalize taxes on farm property with 

 those on other property. 



H. V. HINCKLEY, Mem. Am. Soc. C. E., 

 has been appointed by the commissioners 

 of Shawnee county, Kansas, to have 

 charge of the Melan bridge to be built in 

 the City of Topeka. It will be the larg- 

 est Melan bridge on the American Conti- 

 nent. 



HON. F. D. COBURN was re-elected secre- 

 tary of the Kansas State Board of Agri 

 culture by a rising vote, a compliment 

 well deserved. The farmers of the State, 

 and people in all occupations, well know 

 and duly appreciate Mr. Coburn's great 

 services. 



IT is a question whether the Standard 

 Oil Company has gobbled up the Kansas 

 oil fields or vice versa. Anyway, opera- 

 tions have begun and it is predicted that 

 the exciting scenes of Oil City, Pa., and 

 thereabouts are to be repeated in South- 

 eastern Kansas. 



THE fact of the possibility of snch an 

 association of associations such a federa 

 tion of interests as the National Associa- 

 tion of Manufacturers of the United States 

 is in itself one of the signs of the times. 

 Congress will never be allowed in the 

 future to disturb and injure the business 

 of the whole country. 



As EXECUTIVE committee of the South 

 Dakota State Immigration Board, the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were elected: F. W. 

 Morris of Tripp; T. H. Brown, of Sioux 

 Falls; S. N. Narregang, of Aberdeen; J. 



