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a bill authorizing the appointment of a chief engineer 

 of the Eeclamation Service at $10,000 per year, their 

 intention being to create this office, and fill it with 

 some "good politician" who would lord it over Chief 

 Engineer Newell and the present reclamation force. 

 But the bill failed. The men who were behind that 

 measure are gloating over the appointment of Mr. 

 Grunsky, for they look upon his selection as a rebuke 

 to Mr. Newell. But their assumption is incorrect. Mr. 

 Grunsky is to be what his title implies, a consult- 

 ing engineer. Mr. Newell will continue as chief en- 

 gineer and will be at the head of the Reclamation 

 Service." 



It will be noted that the Secretary of the Interior 

 ranks third in classification with Newell and Walcott. 



CARL EWALD GRUNSKY, C. E. 



Mr. Walter 

 H. Graves. 



, 



We are presenting herewith a half-tone 

 photo of Mr. W. H. Graves, a prominent 

 civil engineer of Boise, Idaho. Mr. 

 Graves is one of the best known irrigation 

 engineers in the United States and is recognized as 

 authority on irrigation subjects throughout the world. 

 We are pleased to be able to state 

 that arrangements have been made 

 with Mr. Graves to contribute regu- 

 larly to the editorial columns of THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE and it is our impres- 

 sion that with his assistance we will 

 be able to make the paper much 

 stronger than ever before. 



Mr. Graves will furnish illustra- 

 tions to accompany his articles, which 

 will be . so comprehensive that our readers will be 

 able to surmount engineering difficulties along irri- 

 gation lines. 



We have asked Mr. Graces to prepare for us a 

 lot of short articles, properly illustrated, showing the 

 construction of head gates, flumes, etc., etc. This sort 

 of matter will be exceedingly interesting and instructive. 

 We hope to begin the publication of articles by Mr. 

 Graves in our issue of June. 



The Great Falls, Mont., Tribune of February 20 

 has the following bit of irrigation news: 



T. E. Lowery, the local agent of the Fairbanks- 

 Morse Company, states that the largest irrigation pump- 

 ing plant in northern Montana is that of Lohr Brothers, 

 at Tampico, about twelve miles west of Glasgow, which 

 consists of a 60-horsepower boiler, a 50-horsepower 

 automatic steam engine, and a 12-inch centrifugal 

 pump, its capacity being about 5,000 gallons per min- 

 ute. On a test run of sixty-six hours it covered 143 

 acres to a depth of five inches, the cost of the run, with 

 wood valued at $2.00 per cord, and wages for engineer 

 and other help, being at the rate of sixty-five cents 

 per acre. With proper ditching the plant is calculated 

 to irrigate about 800 acres, flooding that area twice 

 during the season. 



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 1 year, and The Primer of Irrigation 



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ADVISOR TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES GEO- 

 LOGICAL SURVEY. 



Mr. Carl Ewald Grunsky, who was recently ap- 

 pointed consulting engineer and advisor to the director 

 of the United States Geological Survey, was born in 

 San Joaquin County, Cal., on April 4, 1855. He at- 

 tended the public schools of Stockton, being the only 

 male member of the first class graduated from the 

 Stockton high school in 1870. 



After teaching school for a year as principal of 

 South school in Stockton, he determined to acquire a 

 professional education in Germany. Accordingly he 

 spent nearly six years in Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, as a 

 student in the "Real-Schulc," and in the Polytechnic 



CARL EWALD OUUN8KY, C. E. 



Institute, from which he was graduated as civil engi- 

 neer at the head of his class in 1877. 



His first professional employment was as topog- 

 rapher with a river surveying party of the State Engi- 

 neering Department of California in 1878. He was 

 made assistant state engineer in charge of computations 

 and office work relating to stream gaging in 1879, and 

 was advanced to chief assistant in 1882, continuing 

 as such till 1887. 



From 1887 to 1899 he was in private practice at 

 Sacramento and in San Francisco, also serving during 

 1889 and 1890 as a member of the examining commis- 

 sion on rivers and harbors for California. In 1892-93 

 he was one of the engineers selected to design a sewer 

 system for San Francisco and served on the sewerage 

 board of that city. In 1893-94 he again served the 

 State of California as a consulting engineer to the 



