THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XII. 



NO. 7. 



THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN SMERICH 



Our War with Qe f the greatest drawbacks 

 Spain. to Spain in a naval encounter 



with the United States is the fact 

 that the country has and no coal 

 of its own and no coaling station nearer 

 our shores than the Canary Islands. Tor- 

 pedo boats are practically useless at any 

 great distance from their supplies as they 

 have no cruising capacity in their coal 

 bunkers. At this time anything of a mil- 

 tary nature statistics or otherwise is of 

 interest to the people, and this fact led a 

 Washington newspaper correspondent to 

 give the following in regard to the mem- 

 bership of congress. 



"Out of a total of ninety men ^in the 

 United States senate, more than one-third 

 or thirty-two are veterans of the civil 

 war, which ended a full generation ago; 

 while two of these thirty-two, who are to- 

 day actively engaged in solving a new war 

 problem, were participants in the struggle 

 with Mexico more than half a centnry ago. 

 The house, too, despite the lapse of time 

 and the advancement of young men in po- 

 litical life, has a large percentage of men 

 who were active in the rebellion. This is 

 a record of American vigor of which the 

 country may well be proud." 



irrigation Mr. Joel Shomaker who, in 

 states. addition to being a journalist 



and writer, is also a practical farmer, is a 

 contributor to the AGE. With this num- 

 ber he begins the first of a series of articles 

 on western irrgation, this one being 



"American Irrigation." "Irrigation in 

 Utah" will appear in the May issue, and 

 will be followed by others of equal interest. 

 Mr. Shomaker is now making a western 

 trip for the purpose of gaining, from per- 

 sonal observation, an idea of the various 

 methods of irrigation in different sections. 

 Don't fail to read his articles. 



A Sign of the At a recent meeting of the 

 Times. bank presidents of Waco, 



Texas, it was resolved to lend money to 

 the government without interest, in the 

 event of a war with Spain. When we con- 

 sider that every banker but one had served 

 in the Confederate army, we will get an 

 idea of how united all sections of the 

 Union are in this great National crisis. It 

 has done away with party and sectional 

 lines; there is now "no north, no south, no 

 east, no west," but all one great nation, 

 united in loyalty and patriotism. 



Don't Leave 

 the Farm. 



David Starr Jordan once said, 

 in speaking of the rush to the 

 cities of the young men from the farm: 

 "Do not go to the city unless you 

 are sure the city needs you. If you go 

 there with nothing to give that the city 

 cares for, you will find yourself cast aside. 

 Brains the city wants and will pay for and 

 devour. Loyalty of service will be recog- 

 nized and valued in this world or any other 

 Handwork pure and simple, without skill 

 or pride in it commands no price in the 

 markets. There is no chance about this. 

 The results are as ?ure as fate. If you do 



