THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XVIII. 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 190-J. 



No. 1. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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 the exponent ot IrnigaltoB and its kindrtd industiies. It is the pioneer 

 journal of its kind in the world, and has no r val >n ha f a continent. It 

 advocates the mineral development and the industrial growth of the West. 



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irrigators and large irrigation corporations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and has readers in all parts of the world. 

 The Irrigation Age is 18 years old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



For the convenience of the large number of 

 Notice. iib raT i e s an d other institutions that regularly 

 bind the. different volumes of THE IRRIGATION AGE we 

 are beginning Volume 18 with the present (November) 

 issue. This is done so that it may not be necessary to 

 bind two different sizes in one volume. 



Mr. L. G. C. Mayer, Agent and ex- 

 L. (j. C. Mayer : . , , , . 



pert, pumping and tanning machin- 

 ery investigations, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, called on the IRRIGATION AGE recently and 

 explained the object of his work, which appears in de- 

 tailed form in another column. It is hoped that manu- 

 facturers generally will give such aid as they can to the 

 department in its new line of study and research. 



Have'You? 



If any of the readers of THE IRRIGATION 



AGE who are members of the National 

 Irrigation Association have been notified of annual meet- 

 ings, and have on hand any report of the meetings, 

 giving full proceedings, election of officers, etc., etc., 

 they will confer a- favor by sending same to this office. 



Interesting. 



Our readers will find the articles reprinted 

 in this issue from the Denver Eepublican 

 of October 10th a very fair description of the standing 

 of Geo. H. Maxwell among the people who have kept 



track of him in the west. The reply of Prof. Elwood 

 Mead, of the department of agriculture, to the attack 

 made on the department by Mr. Maxwell will also prove 

 interesting reading. 



Personal and In a circular headed "Personal and 

 Confidential. Confidential" issued by Geo. H. Max- 

 well, late last year, appears the following paragraph: 



"A fund of $100,000 a year could be expended 

 wisely and to advantage in carrying on the necessary 

 educational campaign, in printing and circulating liter- 

 ature and pamphlets, in conducting a wide correspond- 

 ence with thousands of leading men throughout the 

 country to awaken their interest, in publishing an illus- 

 trated monthly magazine and a weekly journal as the 

 organ of the movement ... in the support of 

 a lecture bureau and in holding an annual irrigation 

 congress." 



The above was signed by Mr. Maxwell as Executive 

 Chairman and sounds strange to one who heard his 

 harangue about killing off the National Congress by 

 merging it with the Trans-Mississippi Congress. 



To Whom is Our old friend Wm. 0. O'Neill., who was 

 C*edit Due? killed at San Juan Hill, was the first 

 to push the subject of National Aid, and the Editor 

 of the AGE has the original manuscript of articles 

 written on that subject long before Geo. H. Maxwell 

 ever attended a National Irrigation Congress. In fact 

 some of the matter on the subject of National Aid was 

 published in "Wind and Water" long before The Con- 

 gress held at Phoenix, Arizona, in 1896, which, as we 

 understand it, was the first National Congress that 

 was honored by the presence of Mr. Maxwell, and if the 

 memory of the writer serves him right, that gentleman 



