THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1905. 



No. 11 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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This issue of THE IRRIGATION AGE is 

 Notice, being sent forward to all delegates to the 



Thirteenth National Congress, regardless 

 of whether they are paid subscribers or not. If you are 

 not a regular subscriber and care to keep posted on 

 irrigation development and wish to learn all the truth 

 about Government work along this line, send one dollar 

 and THE AGE will be mailed to you regularly for one 

 year. During that time all of the important papers 

 delievered at the Congress will be published, along with 

 portraits of the prominent speakers. 



Beginning with our October issue will ap- 

 Billing-s, pear a series of finely illustrated articles 



Montana. descriptive of the irrigation development 



around Billings, Montana. 



The city of Billings is already known the country 

 over- as one of the bustling, wide awake points in the 

 West and her citizens are deservedly credited with being 

 broad minded and resourceful, using every effort to 

 extend her trade and increase the productiveness of the 

 surrounding country. Our readers will be much in- 

 terested in the storv of Billings. 



The treatment received by George H. 

 That Maxwell and his association, known as 



Resolution, the National Irrigation Association, at 



the hands of the Xational Irrigation Con- 

 gress was exactly what was expected by all who were 

 acquainted with the situation. 



It only remained necessary for a sufficient number 

 of members of the Congress to unite on a suitable ex- 

 pression which could be embodied in a resolution. After 

 that only one result was expected. 



The truth of the matter is that the Maxwell-Boothe 

 band could have easily avoided their present dilemma 

 had they been far sighted enough to have published a 

 financial statement of their association at any time be- 

 fore the recent Congress. This statement would have 

 contained strange information, to be sure, but it would 

 in any event hare forestalled the action of the Congress. 



The Thirteenth Xational Congress has 

 Irrigation come and gone into history. It was in 

 Congress. all respects a notable gathering and taken 



all in all was one of the most successful 

 meetings ever held by that body. The papers read by 

 prominent men before the different sections will in 

 time be published and thereby add much to irrigation 

 literature and knowledge. 



This Congress, like the one held at El Paso a year 

 ago, demonstrated the fact that the sectional meetings 

 should not interfere with holding daily open meetings 

 of the Congress and a wise ruling was made permitting 

 the holding hereafter of am open Congress in the morn- 

 ing and continuing the section meeting arrangement in 

 the afternoon. This will permit of more general dis- 

 cussion, which is, in fact, the main distributing feature^ 

 the life blood of the Congress. This arrangement will 

 not in any way detract from the good to be derived from 

 papers read in the sections and will, it is expected, 

 prove more satisfactory to all. 



A trip through the Dakotas, Montana-, 

 Astounding Washington and Oregon completed late in 

 Information. August by the editor of THE IRRIGATION 



AGE revealed the remarkably prosperous 

 condition of all interested in agriculture by irrigation. 



