THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



gation Congress failed to accomplish anything of per- 

 manent value or importance. But THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE, while far from agreeing with such a proposition, 

 feels in duty bound to say that there should have been 

 regular committees appointed to investigate the various 

 questions connected with irrigation, the operation of 



we are upon the border of a great era of small farms. 

 All these details are within the power and scope of 

 the objects of the Xational Irrigation Congress, for wo 

 do not consider that when it adjourned on Friday, Sep- 

 tember 18, that adjournment was final, sine die, but 

 its members remained a living force, an influential 



AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING. 1 

 Vast tracts of such land, growing sage i rush, cactus and grease wood, still exist a 1 over the West. 



the national irrigation law, frauds upon the public land 

 laws generally, the location of reservoirs, well and water 

 storage basins, forestry and the renewal of forests and 

 maintenance of watersheds. Moreover, a committee to 



organization until the twelfth congress at El Paso 

 in 190-t should be regularly organized, ready to receive 

 the report of the committees appointed by the eleventh 

 congress. THE IRRIGATION' AGE can not accept the 



AS IT is NOW. 



Transformation from desert shown above wrought by irrigation. 



inquire into profitable irrigation, the most productive 

 crops, systems of irrigation and the unification or 

 codification of our diverse laws upon the ownership, 

 appropriation and use of water. A committee on col- 

 onization would have proved of incalculable value, for 



proposition that the only thing accomplished officially 

 by the eleventh congress at Ogden was the selection 

 of an executive board of management, who have full 

 power and authority to arrange a twelfth congress 

 without let or hindrance, and who may or may not re- 



