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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Prof. Clarence We are showing in this issue, in con- 

 T. Johnston. nection with our article on The As- 

 suan Dam, a- fine lot of photographs 

 taken along the River Nile in Egypt by Prof. Clarence 

 T. Johnston, Chief Assistant Irrigation Investigations, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. . These photos were 

 taken in 1902 by Prof. Johnston when on a trip of in- 

 vestigation of this great dam in the interest of the 

 Agricultural Department, and through the courtesy of 

 that gentleman we are permitted to embellish our article 

 with them. We are also showing a fairly good like- 

 ness of Prof. Johnston. 



. that city, which office he held .for. .four years. In 1894 

 Mr. Bond was engaged in field engineering in the 

 northern part of Wyoming. During the four years 

 in which he was at -this work he was associated with 

 others in some of the largest canal surveys undertaken 

 in his state. Mr. Bond returned to Cheyenne in 1898 

 to accept the appointment of chief clerk in the office 

 of the Surveyor General, but resigned that position later 

 to accept the appointment of State Engineer of Wyom- 



Scipio THE IRRIGATION AGE has changed its maga- 

 Craig. zinc form of the regulation size- 6x9 inches 

 to a sort of a quarto form 9x12 inches. 

 Now if the editor would let up trying to stand in 

 with the cattlemen and the state cessionists his change 

 of form would look like a change of heart. Which 

 that same is a much needed change. The Citrograph, 

 Eedlands, Cal. 



Scipio : Little did we think, when looking at those 

 honest blue eyes when we met in Colorado recently, that 

 you carried a knife in your boot-leg. Ah, me ! Scipio 

 Craig ! 



Irrigation Beginning with this, our January num- 

 and ber the subject of land drainage will fill 

 Drainage a good part of our columns, as with this 

 issue The Drainage Journal is merged with 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE. Hereafter a separate drainage 

 department will be maintained, to which will be con- 

 tributed articles by the best thinkers and students of 

 this very important branch of agriculture. Regular 

 articles will appear from the pen of Mr. C. E. Elliott, 

 agent and expert in charge of drainage investigations, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Elliott 

 was formerly owner and editor of The Drainage Jour- 

 nal, and has made this subject a life-long study. We ex- 

 tend our best wishes to the many thousand readers of 

 The Drainage Journal, whom we gladly welcome as 

 readers of the combined journals. 



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Bond, State Engineer of Wyom- 

 ing, whose likeness is shown in these col- 

 umns, is a native of the State of Iowa, where he lived 

 up to the time he became a citizen of Wyoming. He 

 graduated with distinction from the Iowa State Uni- 

 versity, Iowa City, with the class of 1880 and moved 

 to Wyoming in the summer of 1882. His first work 

 there was for the government in connection with govern- 

 ment surveys, in the office of the U. S. Surveyor Gen- 

 eral. Following this, Mr. Bond became acquainted with 

 the banking business in Cheyenne in the capacity of 

 bookkeeper, and later was appointed city engineer of 



MR. FRED BOND. 

 State Engineer, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



ing, and he has filled that important office acceptably 

 to the present time. Mr. Bond is very popular through- 

 out his state and has a wide circle of friends among 

 those interested in irrigation all over the country. THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE will try and secure an article from 

 the gentleman for a future issue on the future of 

 irrigation development in his state. 



The Range The passage of the late irrigation act 

 Problem. has brought the attention of the public 

 to the value of our vacant lands and 

 many theories have been recently advanced providing 

 that only actual settlers receive title to the lands oc- 

 cupied or used. That this policy would be all right 

 where a large area can be brought under irrigation and 

 where a comparatively few acres will support a family 

 is not disputed. The trouble has been that the possi- 

 bilities of national irrigation have been over-estimated 

 by the periodicals devoted to this subject and sent out 

 broadcast to the public. Where lands can be reclaimed 

 the Irrigation Bill has provided that they can only be 

 disposed of to actual settlers after the government has 

 completed the irrigation works. It is only necessary, 

 therefore, to withdraw lands before surveys are begun 

 to insure protection to the settler who is to come. 



Unfortunately the papers referred to have already 

 created the impression throughout the East that the 

 reclamation of the arid West is simply a matter of 

 building canals and laterals and storage works to retain 



