THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1905. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 



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Duty of 

 Water. 



We are presenting in this issue an article 

 by Mr. Frank Adams, of the office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, taken from Water 

 and Forest, San Francisco. The illustrations used in 

 connection therewith are presented through the courtesy 

 of that journal. 



Mr. Nicholas Sinelnicow, an agricultural 

 Visitor From 'engineer of note and special representative 

 Russia. of the Minister of Agriculture of Russia, 



is at present in this country studying irri- 

 gation development and agricultural conditions for his 

 government. Professor Sinelnicow traveled throughout 

 the irrigated West with the editor of THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE and was an interested visitor at the 13th National 

 Irrigation Congress recently held in Portland, Ore. 

 While in Portland he met many men of prominence con- 

 nected with the Reclamation Service and spent several 

 days in the company of Chief Engineer of the Reclama- 

 tion Service Newell, visiting the more important gov- 

 ernment projects in Idaho. Professor Sinelnicow also 

 spent some time in Colorado and Utah, as well as North 

 Dakota. Montana and Washington. He later visited 

 California and Nevada and will return to Russia well 

 supplied with data concerning this wonderful country. 

 All who met the gentleman expressed admiration for 

 him and his ability as an engineer. Professor Sinelni- 

 cow will probably write a story of his trip which will be 

 brought out in book form later on. While on the trip 

 west he secured about one hundred fine photograph* of 



irrigation scenes which will be used to illustrate his 

 story. 



Mr. G. L. Shumway of Scottsbluff, Neb., 

 Strange sends us a communication concerning the 



Attituie. attitude of Mr. Newell when he was 



called before the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions of the 13th National Congress, which is pre- 

 sented on another page. He also explains his motive 

 in presenting Resolution No. 1, which seemed to give 

 Mr. Newell and his assistants, as well as his superior 

 officers, considerable anxiety. The fact of the matter 

 was thai Mr. Newell made strange admissions before 

 the Committee and brought in the names of the Presi- 

 dent, ex-Secretary of War Morton and others in such a 

 way as to leave the' impression that when his department 

 is criticised he immediately calls on those higher in 

 authority before answering or forming a decision. That, 

 to be sure, is his privilege, but it is doubtful if the 

 President or ex- Secretary Morton expect him to defend 

 himself by quoting what they would naturally expect to 

 be private conversation. To a bystander; it appears that 

 Mr. Newell tried to detract attention from his depart- 

 ment and forestall action on the resolution by pulling 

 in the President, ex-Secretary Morton and a private 

 citizen of Nebraska who was not present and had no 

 representative on hand to defend him. Mr. Shumway, 

 as stated in his communication, withdrew the resolution 

 rather than injure an innocent individual by urging its 

 passage under the misapprehension caused by Mr. New- 

 ell's reference to the President and ex-Secretary Morton. 

 Mr. Newell may rest assured, however, that he will hear 

 more of thi= matter in the future. 



