THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XVIII. 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1903. 



No. 3. 



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EDITORIAL 



H t' d? * S ** P oss ible that Mr. Maxwell has 

 caught Mr. Wooldridge with one of those 

 "heroic looks" which he assumed in recent photographs 

 and has hypnotized him ? God forbid. 



"Watch THE IRRIGATION AGE has written a number of 

 for letters to leading men throughout the West. 



Replies, asking their opinion on the range problem or 

 leasing question, as well as their views on the 

 matter of state boards of control of the water supply. 

 It is our intention to publish all of the replies and 

 allow our readers to form an opinion after all sides 

 of the case have been presented. 



The editor of this journal does not wish 

 Wooldridge to be unfair in any sense to any individual 

 in Defence, and after having published a letter from 



Mr. Wooldridge in response to an edi- 

 torial on Mr. Maxwell in our issue of October, with 

 our reply to Mr. Wooldridge, which appeared in the 

 December issue, it is only fair to give publicity to the 

 answer from Mr. Wooldridge, which is cheerfully given 

 space in our correspondence department. The editor has 

 great respect for both Mr. Wooldridge and his opinions, 

 but is constrained to note that the gentleman has not 

 fully answered several of the important questions con- 

 tained in our letter to him dated November 28. 



In an early issue will be presented an 

 Arnett on article on "Tile Drainage, Its Bene- 



Tile Drainage, fits," by Mr. J. Arnett, C. E., London, 



Ohio. Mr. Arnett has prepared a very 

 interesting story, and the remarkable feature in con- 

 nection with it is that the gentleman is upwards of 83 

 years of age. We hope to present a likeness of Mr. 

 Arnett in connection with its production. 



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are members of his association, who claim that 

 there are too many congresses, and advocate a merger 

 of the Trans-Mississippi and Irrigation Congress, why, 

 we ask, have they called a meeting of the "National 

 Association" to be held in St. Paul this year? If there 

 are too many congresses perhaps it would be a good 

 plan to reduce the number by a merger of "The Maxwell- 

 National" with the Trans-Mississippi. Would this 

 arrangement suit "George?" 



Prof. We are pleased to note that Prof. A. Golf, for- 

 Golf. merly of Bonn, Poppelsdorf, Germany, who re- 

 cently made a tour throughout the irrigated 

 sections of the United States to study our irrigation 

 systems, has been made assistant in the Agricultural 

 Institute of the University of Halle, Germany. Prof. 

 Golf writes us that THE IRRIGATION AGE is a very im- 

 portant assistant in becoming acquainted with new de- 

 velopments and iri the preparation of his report on Irri- 

 gation in the United States, which he is now arranging 

 for the Universitv. THE IRRIGATION AGE will publish 

 the report in full as soon as the manuscript is submitted 

 and it should prove interesting to all our readers, as 

 it will give the impressions of a careful student who 

 covered the field thoroughly while in this country. 



