The 



A NEW METHOD. 



Covina (Cal.) Argus gives an 



account of a uew sub-irrigation system 

 that is to be used by F. M. Chapman, of 

 Palmetto ranch, in his fifteen acre grove. 

 " In distinction to all other systems the 

 pipes have no openings or perforations," 

 says the Argus, "but at regular distances 

 between the trees are placed receivers or 

 miniature reservoirs constructed of a 

 20-inch cement pipe with a top, turned on 

 end, into which water is conducted by 

 means of a 2-inch pipe, and when this is 

 filled it passed out through a pipe in the 

 other side, into the next receiver, and so 

 on until it reaches the end of the row. 

 Mr. Chapman believes that in this system 

 the clogging of the pipes by roots, to which 

 has been due the failure of all former sys- 

 tem, has been overcome. If this system 

 proves successful it will revolutionize irri- 

 gation in Southern California. 



This system is said to be entirely ori- 

 ginal with Mr. Chapman and a patent is 

 pending. 



A LARGER APPROPRIATION NEXT 

 YEAR. 



Encouraging news comes from Wash- 

 ington to those who have been fighting 

 the battle for national ii'rigation of the 

 arid lands owned by the government. 

 Both houses of Congress have agreed 

 to an item in the Sunday Civil 

 service bill appropriating $100,000 for 

 irrigation surveys during the coming 

 year. It is true that the amount is not 

 large. The amount oi $50,000 had been 

 allowed by the House, which sum was 

 increased to $250,000 in the Senate, and 

 amount appropriated was a compromise 

 between the two figures. This is twice as 



much as was allowed last year, and the 

 encouraging statemement is made by the 

 Washington correspondent of The Times 

 that throughout the controversy " no man 

 appeared and objected to the appropria- 

 tion in toto." The correspondent adds : 



" There is every indication that a much 

 larger appropriation can be secured next 

 session if the western folks who are vitally 

 interested in the matter will make them- 

 selves felt in the proper way in Washing- 

 ton. Eastern opposition to western irri- 

 gation is gradually wearing away through 

 the influence of the National Irrigation 

 Association, which has its membership 

 largely in the East. " 



The statement in regard to the member- 

 ship of the National Irrigation Association 

 is in line with one made a few days ago in 

 these columns, when it was mentioned as 

 a regrettable fact that eastern business 

 men are actually taking more interest in 

 this movement than are citizens of the 

 Southwest, who are so vitally interested. 

 This is not as it should be. With " a 

 strong pull, a long pull and a pull all 

 together," national irrigation may within 

 a few years become an accomplished fact, 

 when not only will Uncle Sam once more 

 be able to give all his boys a good farm, 

 but a great stimulus will also be given to 

 our commere and manufacturers. Los 

 Angeles Times. 



SAFEGUARDS. 



Congress will one day wake up to the 

 fact that the empire in the West needs 

 but little attention from the government 

 less than the rivers and harbors 

 get to be transformed from desert 

 wastes into prosperous small farms and to 

 contain a dense population aa upbuil d 



