THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XIII. 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1898. 



NO 



THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN flMERICH 



Our This number of the AGE being 1 



pi., *|^ 



for 1899. the last one for the year 1898, 

 it is fitting that in it we should give a brief 

 outline of our plans for the coming year. 



In 1897 a party was sent out through 

 Wyoming to investigate the question of the 

 construction of reservoirs in arid regions 

 through the agency of the general govern- 

 ment. Among the members of this party 

 were Prof. Elwood Mead, Capt. Chitten- 

 den, Col. Nettleton and Mr. Johnson. We 

 will have the good fortune to present to 

 our readers during the coming year, the 

 results of -their investigations in a series 

 of papers written by the above named gen- 

 tlemen and published under the general 

 heading of ''The Irrigation Problems and 

 Possibilities of Northern Wyoming: A 

 Symposium." This will be illustrated by 

 views of different points visited, which 

 will add to the interest of the article. The 

 first article in the series, that of Elwood 

 Mead, State Engineer of Wyoming, en- 

 titled "Some of the Agricultural Problems 

 and Possibilities of Northern Wyoming," 

 will be given in the January issue. 



Joel Shomaker contemplates writing for 

 us a series of articles on Co-operative Irri- 

 gation Colonies, Corporation Irrigation 

 Communities, and Individual Irrigation 

 Enterprises, in response to a demand for 

 more knowledge regarding these subjects. 

 The first of these articles will appear in 

 the January number. 



Anothe" who will contribute during the 

 year is Lodian Lodian, of Paris, France, a 

 civil engineer whose profession has taken 

 him to many portions of the globe, and 



whose first contribution will be regarding 

 the "Waste Lands in Europe." 



While we cannot positively assure our 

 readers of the continuance of T. S. Van 

 Dyke's articles, we hope he will favor us 

 in the future as in the past with witty and 

 instructive writings. 



Papers read at the Kansas State Horti- 

 cultural Society meeting, and from differ- 

 ent writers throughout the west and south- 

 west will appear during the coming year, 

 together with the usual number of agri- 

 cultural, editorial and general news arti- 

 cles. We intend giving more illustrations 

 than heretofore and contemplate other 

 changes that shall add to its attractive- 

 ness. 



Hoping that we may retain our old 

 friends and gain new ones during the com- 

 ing year, we will wish all our readers a 

 very Merry Christmas and a Happy New 

 Year. 



T. S. 

 Van Dyke 



"An impetuous writer, a 

 prince of sportsmen, and the 

 most picturesque recorder of the California 

 of 'Boom' days," is the description the 

 Land of Sunshine gives of T. S. Van Dyke. 

 Among the books which have brought 

 him prominently to notice are "Southern 

 California," which so good an authority as 

 Charles Dudley Warner considered the 

 best book on that theme at the time it ap- 

 peared; "Still Hunter," "Game Birds at 

 Home" and "Millionaires of a Day," the 

 latter being "an inside history of the Great 

 Southern California Boom." An author- 

 ity on irrigation matters.and a writer who 

 is appreciated by AGE readers, we give 



