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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



the harmony of the meeting should have 

 been disturbed by a discussion of matters 

 of minor importance, and that earnest 

 men, whose time has been spent in this 

 great work, should have been, to a certain 

 extent, put in the back-ground, while the 

 fore-part of the stage was occupied by one 

 whose chief bid for consideration was his 

 fluent speech and ready tongue, rather 

 then any direct work done for the good of 

 the cause. 



another irrigation congress, may we also' 

 be able to chronicle great achievements, 

 and may the^work done justify the hopes 

 of its friend*?. 



For November. I" ur November issue of 

 this Journal we will pre- 

 sent to our readers an article written espe- 

 cially for the IRRIGATION AGE, by Edwyn 

 H. Pargiter, of Delhi, India. Mr. Par- 

 giter, is prominent in irrigation work, in 

 his Majesty's service in India and his 



IF THIS BE TREASON MAKE THE MOST OF IT. 



If, in the blood of the Martyrs be found the seed 

 of the Church, then in the slaughter of the proposition 

 to amalgamate the Irrigation Congress with theTrans- 

 "Mississippi," will be found the inevitable perpetua- 

 tion of the former body as an independent and national 

 organization. Shoulder to shoulder, sparing no effort, 

 neglecting no precaution, will the opponents of the 

 merger now feel it incumbent upon them to prove the 

 strength and consistency of their position. They have 

 builded better than they knew, and in the next session 

 of the Congress at Ogden will be seen the wisdom of 

 their policy. 



The enemies of irrigation men of the 

 east, who regard the Irrigation Act as 

 one of sectional favoritism; an effort to 

 benefit the west at the expense of the 

 east will watch eagerly for an opportun- 

 ity to exclain "I told you so," and it is 

 hoped the appropriation made by congress 

 will be so judiciously expended, as to give 

 the enemies of the cause no chance to 

 cavil. It is of great moment that no sus- 

 picion of personal gain should be connec- 

 ted with the work. The reservoir sites 

 should be carefully selected and where 

 they would be of the most immediate use, 

 not where it would be most advantageous 

 for any syndicate or co-operation to have 

 them. By the time another year rolls 

 around, and we have occasion to chronicle 



wide experience and thorough knowledge 

 of the subject, will make this contribu- 

 tion from his pen of unusual interest and 

 value. His recent visit to this country 

 familiarized him with the system of irriga- 

 tion in use here. We will publish his 

 portrait in connection with the article. 



H 



and Farm. had presumedthe preroga- 



tive of running things in the National Ir- 

 rigation Congress, was so completely 

 squelched at Colorado Springs last week 

 that he ought to sneak off and lose him- 

 self for all time to come. He tried to 

 hamstring the congress by merging it into 

 some trans-Mississippi organization in 

 which the irrigationists had no interest 



