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PULSE OF THE 



ELWOOD MEAD RESIGNS. 

 State Engineer Mead will resign his 

 office at the close of the present fiscal year 

 and will have charge of the work to be 

 carried on under the appropriation of 

 $35,000 to enable the secretary of agricul- 

 ture to investigate and report upon the 

 laws and institutions relating to irrigation 

 and upon the use of irrigation waters, 

 with special suggestions of better methods 

 for utilization of irrigation waters in agri- 

 culture than those in common use. Prof. 

 Mead will aid the state irrigation authori- 

 ties in the arid land states in the work of 

 framing and enforcing laws for the uni- 

 form distribution of the waters of the 

 streams by collecting facts, bearing upon 

 the problems of irrigation, and making 

 the same public through the medium of 

 regular bulletins. Chejenne Tribune. 



A NEW PLACE. 



The proposition to put in a portable 

 pumping plant to use in the different wells 

 about here is being worked up says the 

 Chino (Cal.) Champion. It is believed 

 that an air lift, with condenser and gas- 

 oline engine, can be made to work success- 

 fully in wells where water stands near the 

 surface, and can be moved readily from 

 place to place. There are probably half a 

 hundred wells on the Chino ranch which 

 might be pumped to great advantage, and 

 the portable pumping plant could be used 

 on enough of them to keep it busy through- 

 out the summer. There are many pieces 

 of land here which will produce nothing 

 this year unless they are irrigated: there 

 are wells either on them or from which 

 they can be reached: yet the individual 

 owners do not feel able to put in a perma- 

 nent pumping plant. An irrigation stream 

 could be pumped from one of these wells, 

 then the outfit moved to another and the 

 operation repeated. 



It is expected to fit up such a plant and 



make a test of it. If it works successfully 

 it will be purchased. There are wells 

 enough on the Chino ranch to keep a 

 number of such pumps busy all the time: 

 and it is believed that they will be a pay- 

 ing investment, for hundreds of acres of 

 land can in that way be made productive 

 which will otherwise remain idle. An 

 experiment of this kind will be .watched 

 with interest, for if successful in its re- 

 sults it will be a boon to the farmer who 

 cannot afford to buy an irrigating outfit. 



KEEP THE RESERVATIONS CLOSED. 

 Sheep men are making a strong effort in 

 Central California to have the forest reser- 

 vations opened for their bands this sum- 

 mer. They set up a pitiful wail and, in- 

 deed, their case is a hard one, but a deaf 

 ear should be turned against their appeals. 

 The interests of the thousands of irriga- 

 tors, who depend on the supply of moun- 

 tain water, far outweigh the intetests of 

 the few sheep herders. And it must be 

 remembered that the damage done by the 

 sheep in one year takes ten or more to 

 efface. Sheep men should understand 

 that the day of grazing thousands of head 

 of sheep on the public domain, at no cost 

 beyond the herders' wages, is passed in 

 this state forever. The sheep herder 

 must become the sheep farmer. He must 

 graze his sheep on his own land, as is 

 profitably done in all parts of the east. 

 2he Citrograph. 



ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY 

 where for "The Story of the Philippines," by 

 Murat Halstead, commissioned by the Govern- 

 ment as Official Historian to the War Depart- 

 ment. The book was written in army camps at 

 San Francisco, on the Pacific with General 

 Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolulu, in Hong 

 Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in 

 the insurgents camps with Aguinaldo. on the 

 deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the 

 roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza 

 for agents. Brimful of original pictures taken 

 by government photographers on the spot. 

 Large book. Low prices. Big proffts. Freight 

 paid. Credit given. Drop all trashy uuofficia, 

 war books. Outfit free. Address, H. L, Barberl 

 Gen. Mngr., 356 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



