THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XII. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1898. NO. 12. 



THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN SMERICfl. 



The End of This, the September number, 

 Vol XII. completes volume XII of the 



IRRIGATION AGE and marks the close of 

 the first year under the present manage- 

 ment. We have "got our hand in" and 

 intend making volume XIII testify to the 

 fact by being better than its predecessors. 

 Irrigation is one of the vital questions of 

 the hour, and never was there more need 

 of a journal devoted to its interests. We 

 want to make the AGE a practical journal, 

 and we need your help to do it; we want 

 pictures of your fine cattle, your home- 

 steads, your choice fruits: we want hints 

 as to the best methods of farming, garden- 

 ing, fruit raising: if you have discovered 

 any new device to assist in your work, 

 anything that tends to make life more 

 "worth living," let us hear about it; write 

 and tell us about your home-made irrigat- 

 ing devices. The man with plenty of 

 money can go to a competent irrigation 

 engineer and hire him to put in an irri- 

 gating plant. But we want to help the 

 small farmer the one who has to make a 

 dollar go the farthest to help himself, by 

 giving him an insight into new and im- 

 proved methods. 



Among the contributors to Vol. XII 

 have been such well known men as Geo. 

 Maxwell, T. S. Van Dyke, Joel Shomaker, 

 Dr. Clarke Gapin, and others who are 

 posted in the mysteries of irrigation and 

 the coming numbers of the AGE will be 

 but a continuation of "good things." 

 Don't be afraid to subscribe for fear the 

 journal is dead, for fear it will not come 

 out regularly; the AGE is on a firmer basis 

 ever and will come out every month 



promptly on time, as it has done every 

 month since last October. Subscription 

 price $1.00 per year; single copies lOc. 

 The Dove Bv y i rtue of the protocol, 



Returns, signed August 12, President 

 McKinley ordered a suspension of hostili- 

 ties. It was 114 days from the formal declar- 

 tion of war until the issuance of the above 

 order, which practically marks the close 

 of the war, for though the protocol is but 

 the preliminary document, there is no 

 doubt but what Spain will gladly sign the 

 treaty of peace which is to be prepared not 

 later than October 1, by the commission- 

 ers who are to meet at Paris. Knowing 

 Spain's proclivity for postponement it was 

 thought best to fix a hard and fast date to 

 avoid any delay in the peace negotiations. 

 At Ihe beginning of hostilities this coun- 

 try demanded that Spain abandon Cuba. 

 This demand was refused, and now by the 

 articles of the protocol, agreed to by M . 

 Cambon, the French ambassador at 

 Washington, acting for Spain, and Mr. 

 W. R. Day, Secretary of State, acting for 

 the United States, Spain is required to 

 give up Cuba, Porto Rico, and all her 

 other possessions in the West Indies, one 

 of the islands of the Ladrone group, the 

 city, harbor, and bay of Manila and to 

 evacuate them at once and to submit to 

 such other actions as may be decreed by a 

 joint commission. 



What to do with the volunteer regi- 

 ments, is the next question. There is 

 some protest against retaining the volun- 

 teers for garrison duty in Cuba and Porto 

 Rico, now that the war is over, some 

 claiming that the goverment has no right 



