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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The 



Engineers 

 Meet 



Wheatland, two new reservoirs which will 

 add 25,000 acres to the 60,000 acres now 

 under irrigation. The improvements will 

 be completed this year. 



The Montana Society of En- 

 gineers held theirannual meet- 

 ing at Butte. Montana, the session closing 

 Jan. 8. Many interesting papers on engi- 

 neering subjects were read, one by the re- 

 tiring president, Mr. C. W. Goodale, and 

 others of especial interest were those of 

 T. M. Ripley, regarding the practicability 

 of damming the Missouri river to afford 

 power to Helena and vicinity, and of Mr. 

 Eugene Carroll on the irrigation project. 

 The society elected officers for the coming 

 year and of course had a banquet, this 

 being the proper closing of all meetings. 

 Elsewhere in the AGE will be found a 

 more complete account of the meeting. 

 Quite Grover Clevelamd's private life 



YOU Know resembles very much that of an 

 English land owner. He recently pur- 

 chased 85 acres of wild land, near his 

 home in New Jersey, which he intends to 

 stock with wild game for hunting purposes. 

 He expects to have his game preserve 

 ready by the fall hunting season, to afford 

 sport for himself and guests. 

 A Good A committee has been appoint- 



idea ed by the International Mining 



Congress to present a bill to the legisla- 

 ture in February, asking that there be a 

 new department provided for in the cabi- 

 net, which shall have charge of the inter- 

 ests of mines and mining. This seems 

 indeed a reasonable request and one that 

 should be granted, for as the congress 

 pointed out at their last convention, "where 

 hundreds of millions of dollars was repre- 

 sented in every branch of the mining in- 

 dustry, it should so interest the state and 

 the government that an independent cabi- 

 net officer should look after statistics con- 

 nected with coal, gold, silver, copper, iron, 

 oil and the other important minerals." It 

 does seem strange that while we have in 

 the cabinet a Secretary of Agriculture and 

 a Secretary of the Navy, the mining indus- 

 ry, one of the most importantof ourcoun- 



try, should be neglected. Over $100,000,- 

 000 worth of coal alone was mined in 1896, 

 to say nothing of other minerals. At their 

 last convention the International Mining 

 Congress, which was then known as the 

 Gold Miner's Convention, met at Denver 

 and was attended by almost 1000 delegates, 

 representing every state in the union and 

 nine foreign governments. The meeting 

 this year is to be held at Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, next July, and it is expected that 

 between three and four thousand delegates 

 will be present. W. D. Johnson is chair- 

 man of the executive committee of the 

 congress and Irwin Mahon is the secretary 

 of the organization. Both gentlemen are 

 working earnestly to get their bill sup- 

 ported in congress. 



The The Lodge immigration bill 



Passed ' passed the senate Jan. 18, by a 

 vote of 45 to 28. Two amendments were 

 offered by Spooner, of Wisconsin, and ac- 

 cepted. The bill as passed provides that 

 all immigrants physically capable and over 

 16 years of age shall be able to read or 

 write the English language, or some other 

 language; but a person not able to read or 

 write, who is over 50 years of age, and is 

 the parent or grandparent of a qualified 

 immigrant over 21 years of age and capable 

 of supporting such a parent or grandpar- 

 ent, may accompany the immigrant, or the 

 parent or grandparent may be sent for and 

 come to join the family of the child or 

 grandchild over 21 years of age qualified 

 under the law; and wife or minor child not 

 able to read or write may accompany or be 

 sent for and come to join the husband or 

 parent who is qualified. The act does not 

 apply to persons coming to the United 

 States from the island of Cuba during the 

 continuance of present disorders there who 

 have heretofore been inhabitants of that 

 island. 



The Passing The meeting of Jan. 27th of 

 Buffalo the National Stock-Growers 



Convention at Denver, will be a memora- 

 ble one on account of the barbecue, if for 

 no other reason. This will probably be 

 the last time in America where wild buffa- 



