THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1902. 



NO. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Judge Clev son S. Kinney, In 1896 Judge Cles- 

 Salt Lake City. son g Kinney of Salt 



Lake City, prepared an article for the ed- 

 itor of Wind and Water, which was duly 

 published in that magazine. Subsequently 

 a portrait of Judge Kinney was secured 

 for publication, but owing to the suspen- 

 sion of the publication it did not appear 

 and we are now re publishing the article, en- 

 titled "History of Ancient Irrigation in 

 Various Countries," and reproduce his por- 

 trait as a frontispiece. We trust that it 

 may be possible to induce Judge Kinney 

 to prepare an article for some future is- 

 sue of THE IRRIGATION AGE on the im- 

 portance of irrigation to Civilization in 

 .modern times. Judge Kinney is good au- 



thority on all matters pertaining to irriga 

 tion and anything from his pen will be 

 highly interesting. 



Cuban Sugar. 



No class of people are 

 more interested in the 

 Cuban Tariff legislation than the ; 'irriga- 

 tors." The proposed tariff reduction on 

 the Cuban sugars means a death blow to 

 the exceedingly thriving and very profit- 

 able beet sugar industry everywhere in the 

 United States. The inevitable result of 

 expansion is already shown in the admis- 

 sion of the sugar fields of Porto Rico and 

 Hawaii within the protected limits, and 

 the product of sugar cane from these 

 points will come on the market without 

 any tariff charge. It is well to know, as 

 has been definitely ascertained, that the 

 production of sugar cane from these two 

 points is so limited and the possibilities 

 of increasing it are so well defined, that 

 there is no serious danger of any disturb- 

 ance of the market from this source. 

 With Cuba it is different. In five years 

 Cuba could produce a supply of sugar for 

 the whole of the United States. This 

 statement seems to be exaggerated, but it 

 is based on the report of the United 

 States department of agriculture. There 

 seems to be no limit to the possibilities of 

 increasing the cane sugar product from 

 Cuba, once the tariff wall is lowered. 



The beet sugar industry of the United 

 States is yet in its infancy and without 

 protection will be at the mercy of the 



