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Dawson county? Why, Dawson county came sail- 

 ing into Ogden by the carload, with banners flying 

 and cheers for everything and everybody. Hurrah for 

 Dawson county ! They talk about two carloads for El 

 Paso. If there is any place on earth where a man 

 can live and be happy it is in Dawson county, Neb. 



Mr. E. S. Carroll, city editor of the Ogden Daily 

 Standard, deserves credit for materially aiding in mak- 

 ing the Ogden congress a success by his contributions 

 to the press during the year previous. In addition to 

 that, he managed to handle all the matter rushed at 

 him for the columns of his paper and to supply the 

 Associated Press with a large volume of it. 



W. C. Johnson, of Denver, second vice-president, is 

 a man of strong personality and is active in all irriga- 

 tion questions. His selection ^s very fortunate, from 

 the fact that he will be in a position to keep an eye on 

 the maneuvering of Mr. George H. Maxwell and be 

 able to defeat his schemes. 



Everything seemed to "pour" at Ogden, if the 

 newspaper accounts are any guide. The delegates 

 "poured" into the city. They "poured" out of the 

 city. They "poured" into the halls, and "poured" and 

 '"poured" into and out of everything. There is not the 

 slightest mention of their "pouring" anything into 

 themselves. That would have been a regular "down- 

 pour." 



Man from Colorado to Vermont delegate : "Pooh, 

 what do you know about irrigation?" 



Man from Vermont: "Enough to know that 

 when a thing is dry it has to be moistened before it's 

 good for anything." 



Colorado delegate: "Come along then and nomi- 

 nate your liquid." 



Argument continued at the bar reservoir. 



The El Paso-Mexican band probably did the busi- 

 ness for that city. They captured the city as soon as 

 they arrived. With the band playing "Hiawatha" and 

 the whole Texas delegation forming a background of 

 yells and cow-punching war whoops, there was nothing 

 that could be done but surrender. A delegate declared 

 that he would not care so much about the noise if any 

 other tune than "Hiawatha" had been played. "That," 

 quoth he. "is worse than trying to raise a crop without 

 irrigation an awful strain on the mind." 



Many comments have been heard recently on the 

 manner in which George H. Maxwell advertises himself 

 and his own association through his personal press 

 bureau, and, as an illustration of his short-sightedness, 

 we may mention a synopsis of the speech Mr. Max- 

 well delivered at the congress at Ogden. Interspersed 

 in the printed outline of this speech, which was mailed 

 to the leading papers throughout the country three 

 weeks before it was delivered, were lines of this char- 

 acter: "He stirred his hearers," "applause," etc., etc. 

 How Maxwell could stir his hearers or elicit applause 

 from an audience three weeks prior to the delivery of his 

 speech is more than many of us may understand and 

 causes us to wonder if the man's vanity will lead him 

 to more ridiculous situations than those in which he 

 has already posed. George, George! We did not note 

 any sign of tumultuous disorder during the time you 

 were speaking. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief forester of the United 

 States, stated to the editor of IRRIGATION AGE that 

 this journal had published something about him which 

 was not true, and, in view of the fact that we have no 

 recollection of ever having published the name of this 

 gentleman, we are at a loss to understand his position. 

 Mr. Pinchot may as well understand, however, that 

 THE AGE will publish his name whenever its editor sees 

 fit, whether it be in the form of a compliment on good 

 work done, or a criticism on mistakes made in the past, 

 or those which may possibly develop in the future. 



ED. S. RALPH. 



Some time ago the editor of IRRIGATION AGE was 

 looking over a lot of half-tones in the office of a leading 

 publishers' magazine, and among them found one of 

 Mr. Ed. S. Ralph, which had been used in that journal 

 when Mr. Ralph was an ordinary "printer, artist, critic," 

 and before he had started his well known advertising 

 agency in Springfield, Ohio. Those who read peri- 

 odicals printed in the interest of newspaper makers 

 and printers already know Ed. Ralph by reputation, but 



ED. S. RALPH, 



Manager Advertising Department American Seeding-Machine Co., 

 Springfield. 



to those who have not known him, we will say that it 

 would be difficult to find a brighter man in the whole 

 field of general advertising. 



When Frank Johnson, of the American Seeding 

 Machine Company, became general sales manager of 

 that mammoth organization, he looked around to locate 

 a man to fill the important position of advertising man- 

 ager, and found him in the person whose likeness is 

 herewith shown, Mr. Ed. S. Ralph. 



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