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RUSSIAN IRRIGATION. 



AMONG the numerous visitors who 

 were brought to America during the 

 World's Fair, many were those who were 

 interested in irrigation. Among them 

 were visitors from Australia, France, Ger- 

 many, Russia, Finland, and elsewhere. 

 Several of them have since written de- 

 scriptions of their trips through the West. 

 Professor D. N. Golovneen, of Russia, 

 Member of the American Society of Irri- 

 gation Engineers, has embodied the re- 

 sults of his trip in a volume of 100 pages 

 with numerous illustrations, which has re- 

 cently been issued. It is an extension of 

 an article which he delivered before the 

 Institute of Ways and Communication in 

 St. Petersburg in which he is adjunct pro- 

 fessor of hydraulic engineering. 



Professor Golovneen expresses the con- 

 servative conclusion, "that in conse- 

 quence of the energetic activity of the 

 government and private men, accompanied 

 with the development of irrigation science 

 among the farmers, American irrigation 

 will not remain in its present, though very 

 high, state of development, but promises 

 a further increase and financial success." 



In a private letter to Professor L. G. 

 Carpenter, of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Colorado, he states that private ir- 

 rigation enterprises in Russia are few. 

 Large government undertakings are pro- 

 jected and are being studied by commis- 

 sions from the Ministry of Agriculture. 

 Though not having new irrigation works, 

 Russia has many ancient ones in her 

 Asiatic dominions, some dating from the 

 earliest times. The areas devoted to irri- 

 gation are very great. Some of the ca- 

 nals are very large, and irrigate extensive 

 tracts of country. There are many traces 

 of ancient canals of great magnitude, now 

 abandoned from the encroachment of the 

 sands, or from lack of water, and from 

 stormy times in the past. 



Professor Golovneen promises Professor 

 Carpenter that in the future he will pre- 

 pare a paper on the conditions of irriga- 

 tion in Russia. 



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I. N. PEPPER, 



of Stockton, Kansas, author of article on " Books 

 County Irrigation," in this number. 



RIO GRANDE IRRIGATION AND LAND 

 COMPANY. 



WE learn from a private and reliable 

 source that the capital for this con- 

 cern was actually subscribed in London 

 last month. 



The object of the company is to build a 

 dam on the Rio Grande river opposite 

 Engle, New Mexico, and thence irrigate 

 the whole of the Rio Grande valley as far 

 down as Fort Quitman, Texas. Within 

 this district about 50,000 acres are al- 

 ready under ditch and the proposed irri- 

 gation works will bring 180,000 acres 

 more of valley land and 300,000 acres of 

 mesa lands under cultivation. 



The capital already allotted consists of 

 $2,000,000 in ordinary shares. 



500,000 in 8 per cent preference shares 

 250,000 in 5 per cent debenture bonds 

 while $500,000 of ordinary shares and 



