THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NOTES ON THE CONGRESS. 



President Carey is to have full power 

 to appoint a committee to go to Washing- 

 ton and try to secure irrigation legislation. 



The number of delegates from outside 

 the state limits presentatthe Lincoln con- 

 gress according to the list published in 

 Lincoln Journal was sixty-two. 



Elwood Mead, the able state engineer of 

 Wyoming, was present and exerted a great 

 influence in restraining the congress from 

 running after wild theories and illusions. 



There seems to have been nothing said 

 about state commissions to make local in- 

 vestigations. The commission system was 

 one of the best things ever adopted at an 

 irrigation congress and it seems a pity to 

 allow it to fall into disuse. 



The old officers of the irrigation congress 

 struck their proper gait when they made as 

 a leading feature of the congress an ad- 

 dress on locating underground water by 

 magnetic influence in order to enable an 

 inventor to sell some alleged ''magnetic 

 machines" and made as another feature a 

 paper on the exploded theory of "rain- 

 making." 



Chairman Moses' annual address teemed 

 with allusions to the "grasping East" the 

 "Solid South" the "Frigid North"andthe 

 "Wild and Woolly- West" which he said 

 would soon only be known in the history 

 of the past as the country would be bound 

 together in the bonds of irrigation, and 

 closed with a grand peroration in favor of 

 governmental aid for everything in sight. 



The following comment is from the pen 

 of Lute Wilcox the editor of the Denver 

 Field and Farm: 



"The irrigation congress last week was a 

 beautiful failure and when the meeting was 

 taken to Lincoln it came near being its 

 uneral. The delegates did not enthuse, 

 as no one had any faith in the corn husker's 

 ideas of irrigation, entertainment or pur- 

 pose, if they had ever had any. The old 

 officers made such a bad mess of the whole 

 thing that a new set of thoroughly west- 

 ern men had to be elected to save the 



movement from absolute wreck and Judge 

 Carey, of Wyoming, is the one man Moses 

 who can lead the tribe out of the wilder- 

 ness into which they drifted while follow- 

 ing the corn planters. 



VANDYKE'S BOOK ON IRRIGATION. 



The Art of Irrigation, the exhaustive 

 treatise on the practical handling of wa- 

 ter on the ground, published in THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE has been entirely rewritten 

 by the author T. S. Van Dyke of Cali- 

 fornia. It has been enlarged in its scope 

 by adding some very important informa- 

 tion on the selection of the means of irriga- 

 tion. It has been condensed by the re- 

 jection of almost every superfluous word 

 and it has been subheaded at every 150 or 

 200 words so that any one can in a minute 

 put his finger on any portion he wishes. 



The whole is now in what is called gal- 

 ley proof and is exactly as it will appear 

 in book form. But the piiblication in 

 book form is delayed by the difficulty of 

 getting proper photographs to illustrate 

 the many fine points the author wishes to 

 bring out and he finds that he will have 

 to take most of them himself. It is now 

 in perfect shape to paste in a scrap book 

 for use until the book form comes out. 



The title has been changed to the Mys- 

 tery and Mastery of Irrigation, or the 

 Puzzling Details of Artificial Watering. 

 The old title was not sufficiently sugges- 

 tive of the difficulties encounteredjjby the 

 novice but the substance of most of the 

 book is the same with those improvements 

 that come from rewriting anything how- 

 ever good it may be. 



It now makes a book of about forty 

 thousand words and will be mailed to any- 

 one in galley proof form on receipt of one 

 dollar and fifty cents by the editor of THE 

 AGE. A copy of the book in book form 

 will be sent without further charge to the 

 same address when issued but those who 

 wish to study the subject in time for the 

 next irrigating season had better not wait. 

 There is no difference except in looks and 

 convenience and if the next season should 



