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THE 1RRIGA TION A GE 



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We are in receipt of the 1896-7 

 Recshei 

 With report of the United States 



Thanks. Geological Survey, under the 

 direction of Chas. D. Wolcott. These 

 books give the geological researches and 

 work in this country and are interesting 

 as well as being valuable for reference. 

 The plates illustrating the text are espec- 

 ially fin. j . 



Saturday, June 3, saw the 



Meeting , . , ., 



nt Wichita, closing of the meeting of the 



Trans-Mississippi Congress at 

 Wichita, Kansas. After a hard fight 

 between the National Irrigation Congress 

 and the Trans-Mississippi Congress, a 

 compromise was made by inserting the 

 cession of arid land clause in the reso- 

 lutions. The resolution passed was not, as 

 has been claimed, an altogether unquali- 

 fied endorsement of the storage reservoir 

 plan, "owing to the many restrictions im- 

 posed. On the closing day of the meeting 

 there were many additional resolutions 

 passed as follows: 



For the government construction and 

 ownership of a Nicaraguan canal; opening 

 of southwest pass, Mississippi Delta; has- 

 tening of deep water work at Houston, 

 Tex.; fostering beet sugar industry by 

 Congress; re-enactment of the original 

 homestead act, prohibiting coolie or other 

 contract labor; recognizing the prowess of 

 the army and navy in the war with Spain. 



The National Irrigation association, 

 organized with Joseph M. Carey of 

 Wyoming, author of the Carey, act, as 

 President, George H. Maxwell of Califor- 

 nia, chairman of the Executive committee, 

 and Henry Michaelsen of Colorado as 

 secretary, in order to secure increased 



membership and f ands with which to urge 

 its claims. 



We are fortunate in bsing able to 

 present in another part of this number, 

 one of the papers read at the meeting 

 that of F. H. Newell, Hydrographer of 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



The celebrated International 



Decided . 



at Last. Dam case, which has occas- 

 ioned so much controversy and 

 been before the public for so long, came to 

 a final decision the latter part of May, 

 1899, the judge of the Supreme Court at 

 Washington has sustained the injunction 

 gotten out to prevent the building of a 

 dam above El Paso, Texas. The case has 

 been remanded to the Lower Court with 

 instructions that an official investigation 

 be made as to the points covered by the 

 injunction. We have an article by Mr. 

 i. A. Barnes, of El Paso, giving full par- 

 ticulars as to the decision, which we will 

 give in our July number, it being t >o late 

 to have the illustrations m.ide for this 

 issue. 



How much of romance there is 

 Romance . . . 



and Reality, in the lives of the most com- 

 mon place people and how 

 much personal appearance has to do with 

 our judgment of a case. It is quite 

 natural to imagine a romantic episode in 

 the history of the tall, slight creature 

 who gazes at you with a soulful look in 

 her big childish eyes, and when you see 

 her in a dainty hat and crisp shirt waist 

 you are quite ready to believe that some 

 man's life was spoiled by her refusal, or 

 you may lancy you can trace "disap- 

 pointed hopes" in the pathetic droop to 

 her mouth. In reality that pathetic droop 

 may be merely ill temper caused by her 

 dress maker having disappointed her, and 

 though she looks so slight and fragile, it 

 would be wise to charge a good round 

 sum for her board. 



You cannot connect romance with the 

 stout middle aged woman who is vainly 

 trying to induce the grocer to let her have 

 a peck of apples for thirty-five instead of 

 forty cents, and yet pe haps it is for love of 

 some man she thus bargains. It is hard 

 for you to believe that she once attempted 

 suicide because she thought her worthless 

 husband cared no more for her. Yet such 

 #is the fact We still cling to chi'dish 



