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THE IKEIGATION AGE. 



as was shown at Colorado Springs when the National 

 Association representative tried to kill the Congress by 

 merging it with the Trans-Mississippi Congress. 



An Arizona In a recent letter from one of the friends 

 Opinion. of the Irrigation Congress whose home is 



Arizona we quote the following : "Mean- 

 while I think your little editorial in which you announce 

 that he (Maxwell), has refused to give the names of 

 the rnemhors in his association is one of the strongest 

 things brought against him, and I hope in your nexf, 

 'ssue you will reiterate that inquiry. Maxwell is posing 

 as the representative of 2,000 members and is attacking 

 the Department of Agriculture as the representative of 

 those men. In that case we want the list of member; 

 we want to know the receipts and disbursements of thid 

 association; we want to know when Mr. Maxwell was 

 ever authorized to carry on this warface. Any associa- 

 tion which claims to be public and to attack public 

 officials, should make all these matters public. 



San Francisco The San Francisco Call, in comment- 

 Call. ing on Mr. Geo. H. Maxwell and his 



ambition in an editorial in a recent is- 

 sue, has the following as a finishing paragraph : 



"This brief review of the work to be done, and of 

 the compensative accommodations that will be necessary 

 negatives at once the ambitious aspiration that Mr. Max- 

 well's or any other private association may have to 

 take to itself the expenditure of the twenty million 

 dollars or more that will be devoted to irrigation under 

 the law. It must be a Government concern. The com- 

 pensation of those whose lands will be disused and whose 

 irrigation systems will be destroyed, must, of necessity, 

 come out of the irrigation fund, and in that aspect alone 

 it is evident that only the Government can be permitted 

 to deal with that phase of the problem. A glance at the 

 rest of the work suffices to convince any reasonable man 

 that only the Government has the competent facilities 

 to deal with the whole question." 



tjt r- r -an- Mr - C - G - Elliott, C. E., formerly 



Mr. C. G. Elliott. , , ,. , . ' . 



owner and publisher of the Dram- 

 age Journal, which has been merged with the IRRIGATION 

 AGE, contributes an interesting article on Irrigation 

 and Drainage in the Fresno district, California, which 

 appears in this issue with illustrations. Mr. Elliott has 

 been called by the government to act as expert in drain- 

 age investigations for the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington. The selection of Mr. Elliott for this work 

 reflects credit on the department officials, as Mr. Elliott 

 is eminently qualified to perform this work. It will be 

 Mr. Elliott's duty to answer all inquiries and give ad- 

 vice upon the subject of drainage of farm and public 

 lands. This is a new position made necessary by tho 

 great number of inquiries for information coming to 

 the Department of Agriculture and as well by the call 



for drainage investigations in the irrigated territory of 

 the country. 



This appointment necessitated the sale of the Drain*. 

 age Journal, which had been built up to a commanding 

 position by Mr. Elliott and that journal was absorbed 

 by the IRRIGATION AGE. A regular drainage department 

 will be maintained by this publication, to which Mr. 

 Elliott will be a regular contributor. 



Colorado 

 River. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE received a call in De 

 cember from Mr. F. H. Newell, chief hydrog- 



rapher, IT. S. Geological Survey, who was 

 on his way West to look after work being done on the 

 Colorado river preliminary to the gigantic reservoir sys- 

 tems contemplated along that stream, whereby at least 

 one million acres will be reclaimed between The Needles 

 and Yuma, or the international boundary. This will be 

 the largest project of the kind ever undertaken in the 

 United States and will, with other work contemplated 

 along that stream, be equal in magnitude to the famous 

 Assouan dam recently completed by the British Gov- 

 ernment on the Nile. Mr. Newell states that his depart- 

 ment have about one hundred engineers now at work 

 on both sides of the river below The Needles, both in 

 California and Arizona, and that he wall start in at 

 the first mentioned point and drift down as far as 

 Yuma, studying conditions along the route. The en- 

 gineers engaged in -the work will investigate dam sites, 

 going down to bed rock at such points as may seem 

 available for that purpose. THE IRRIGATION AGE will 

 regularly post its readers on the work being done in 

 that section. In this connection it may be well to say 

 that there is now in course of preparation an extended 

 article on the Assouan dam in Egypt by the pen of 

 Prof. Clarence T. Johnston, assistant chief, Irrigation 

 Investigations U. S. Department of Agriculture. This 

 article will be splendidly illustrated and will be the most 

 complete description of this project ever published. 



Three of Many, many years ago, or perhaps it was 

 Them. not so many, there lived in Philadelphia a 

 man, ,T. Wilford Hall by name. One day 

 Wilford discovered that the essential hypotheses upon 

 which modern physical science is based are all wrong. 

 So he began forthwith to publish a magazine in order 

 that the world might be set right. And this magazine, 

 in honor of himself, he called Wilford's Microcosm. 



After Wilford had run his course and had sub- 

 sided, the world had a weary wait of several years 

 before it enjoyed another such a treat. Then came, 

 not two years distant from our own time, H. Gaylord 

 Wilshire, a young man whose worldly possessions were 

 many, but who found that in spite of that fact there 

 were spots here and there on the surface of the globe 

 wherein his name had never been heard. So he set 

 about to correct a state of affairs which he regarded 

 as cruelly wrong, and after testing the efficacy to that 



