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CORRESPONDENCE 



EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE: 



Hon. W. A. Clark, who has kindly consented to. act in 

 the capacity of president of the Eleventh National Irrigation 

 Congress, which is to be held at Ogden, Sept. loth to 18th 

 inst., 1903, is a pioneer of Montana, a practical irrigationist, 

 a banker, a miner, a railroad man, and a first class states- 

 man, whose high intellectual endowments will illuminate its 

 deliberations. Thus it is that the National Irrigation Congress 

 from day to day, from year to year, grows more important and 

 it is a happy omen when men of Senator Clark's calibre will 

 consider it an honor to preside, forever precluding the idea of 

 merging, a paramount issue, which means the creation and 

 development of our inland empire, to a sectional organization. 



I hold that the law passed for the reclamation of the 

 desert in its effect will be even more far reaching than the 

 Homestead Act, which President Roosevelt says is first, in 

 that the Homestead Act but applies a principle to favorable 

 conditions already existing, whilst the Irrigation Law creates 

 the conditions and promotes intensive and diversified farming 

 on small holdings it eventually will solve economical, educa- 

 tional, race, tariff and financial questions, it will keep the 

 people on the land, in the county, make them independent 

 and self supporting, teaches them to work and diffuses 

 wealth generally, as in France, the most recuperative country 

 in the world, the result of small proprietorship and close 

 cultivation of the 'soil. Respectfully, 



FRED J. KIESEL. 

 Chairman Executive Committee, Eleventh National Irrigation 



Congress, Ogden, Utah. 



DES MOINES, IOWA, June 6, 1903. 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE AND DRAINAGE JOURNAL, Chicago: 



Dear Sirs: I 'just received a copy of Drainage Profit, 

 published by you. Do you put out a periodical on land drain- 

 age ; if so, send me a sample copy. I am somewhat interested 

 in land draining and may be a great deal more so soon, for I 

 am now figuring on buying some ditch machinery. I wish yon 

 would tell me if you know where there is dredge machinery 

 made for cutting a ditch, say, 12 to 16 feet wide and 4 to 10 

 feet deep. If you know where such machinery is made please 

 enclose their addresses to me in the enclosed envelope and 

 oblige. Yours truly, 



G. WALDO GRINSTEAD. 



COLONY, KAN., June 16, 1903. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, 111. : 



Dear Sir: We are desirous of posting up on the subject 

 of steam ditching machines. Will you do us a favor by giv- 

 ing us the addresses of the builders of such machinery? 

 Would like a machine that we can use with our 8 H. P. 

 traction engine. 



Thanking you in advance for the favor, we are 



Yours, 



L. M. WHITE. 



A correspondent, writing from Meridan, Idaho, under 

 date of May 19, says : There was a large and enthusiastic 

 meeting of the farmers held at the Woodman hall yesterday 

 for the purpose of taking steps toward the organization of 

 an irrigating district. Those present were representative men 

 and are deeply in earnest to do something for the bettering 

 of the water question. The following gentlemen were here 

 from Nampa: J. M. Bray, J. M. Crill, John Griffith, H. A. 

 Partridge, R. Meador and Attorney Van Duyn. A. R. 

 Stalker, of Meridian, was made chairman. An organization 

 committee was appointed, consisting of L. P. Corcoran, A. 

 R. Stalker and C. Hedges, of Meridian, to represent Ada 

 county, and A. H. Partridge, J. M. Bray and John Griffith, 

 of Nampa, for Canyon county. It was almost unanimously 

 agreed that it was best to organize an irrigation district. Mr. 

 Greer, of the Ridenbaugh Canal Company, has expressed 

 himself as favoring the plan and promises to put in his 

 private holdings, about 600 acres, as a part of the district. 



MCMILLAN, N. MEX., June llth, 1903. 

 D. H. ANDERSON, EDITOR, Chicago, 111. : 



Dear Sir: Your correspondent. Mr. W. H. Boothroyd, 

 from Tacoma, Wash., under date of April 1st last, and in your 

 April issue, makes reference to a statement concerning a 

 "machine" for lifting water from the channel of a stream to 

 the surface of adjoining land for irrigation purposes, which 

 appears quite remarkable. 



Not only remarkable because of the stupendous results 

 accomplished, but also because he neither definitely describes 

 the '"machine" and the mechanical principles involved in its 

 operation, nor names it, its inventors or manufacturers. If 

 it is capable of accomplishing the results he claims for it 

 a great many persons would wish further information concern- 

 ing it. 



If Mr. Boothroyd has withheld the information desired 

 from the knowledge of the public to the end that he might 

 be compensated for imparting it, I, for one, would cheerfully 

 pay liberally for the information and in proportion to the 

 substantial value of same. 



My plant contains one thousand acres of choice alfalfa 

 lands situated fifteen miles north of Carlsbad, N. Mex., in 

 the Pecos valley and two miles from the P. V. & S. W. R. R. 



The tecos runs through the eastern portion where the 

 lands are lowest, and its waters are appropriated. Seven 

 Rivers enters my inclosure at the northwest corner and emp- 

 ties into the Pecos within my inclosure. At the entrance 

 the lands are the highest, just twenty feet above the surface 

 of the water, and water thereon would flow to any part over 

 a smooth surface with gentle slope. Nature has admirably 

 adapted it for irrigation purposes, and no grading is anywhere 

 needed. Seven Rivers, under my appropriation, has a mini- 

 mum flow of not less than one hundred and twenty-five 

 miner's inches of water, and usually much more. To hoist 

 that water to the surface of the land in a manner both 

 economical and effectual is a problem in which I am greatly 

 interested and Mr. Boothroyd's machine might be of great 

 value to me. 



I wish to know more about it. I own and use now two- 

 thirds the flow of a spring, the minimum yield of which is one 

 hundred miner's inches. With the water from Seven Rivers 

 I could bring nearly all my land under irrigation. 



Yours truly, 



W. V. JOHNSON. 



JUNCTION CITY, TEX., June 6, 1903. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, 111. : 



Dear Sir: Can you give me any information or put me 

 in the way of finding out where I can get moulds for making 

 i8-inch cement pipes to carry water, and the manner of 

 making such ? I believe tht y are used in Colorado and Cali- 

 fornia. 



Am desirous of making 1.500 feet to irrigate my field, 

 the present wooden flume haying rotted out. Freight rates 

 are against my buying the pipe, as I am 70 miles from a 

 railroad and have to pay 50 cent per 100 pounds from the 

 nearest depot. Hauled a carload of lo-inch pipes a year 

 ago and had more than one-third broken in transit. 



Hoping you may be able to help me in the matter, and 

 thanking you for the trouble. Yours truly, 



G. K. GORDON. 



NEW WILMINGTON, PA., July 1, 1903. 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE AND DRAINAGE JOURNAL : 

 Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sirs: Drainage has never been practiced much in 

 this section, mainly on account of scarcity and high price 

 of tile. Some farmers are putting in glazed tile or sewer 

 pipe, where it is practicable. This is a heavy clay country, 

 flat and wet, except on the border of streams. Plenty of 

 railroads here, and a big demand for drain tile if it could 

 be got at a fair price. Will not some tile maker come here and 

 start a plant? This is a virgin field for a tile-maker, and 

 the people are waking up to the benefit of drainage. 

 Yours respectfully, 



J. C. M. JOHNSTON. 



OCEAN PARK, CAL., June 19. 1903. 

 D. H. ANDERSON PUB. Co., 112 Dearborn Street, Chicago: ' 



Gentlemen Enclosed please find P. O. money order for 

 $1.00 for IRRIGATION AGE AND DRAINAGE JOURNAL, which I 

 desire to continue. Hoping to enjoy your paper in the coming 

 year as much as in the past, and wishing you every success 

 in your enterprise, I remain, 



Yours respectfully, H. ROWLAND LEE. 



