ALKALI AND WATER LOGGED LANDS 



Acknowledgment. 



N PRESENTING this bulletin to the public, the Salt Lake 

 Commercial Club, through its Lands Committee, wishes 

 to acknowledge its indebtedness to the following authori- 

 ties on the subject of reclamation, and to express its appre- 

 ciation for the generous responses to requests for the 

 articles contained in this, the first of a series of bulletins it is pro- 

 posed to publish. 



E. W. HILGARD, L.L.D., Ph.D., 



Chemist (Emeritus) of the University of California. 



ROBERT STEWART, B.S., Ph.D., 

 Chemist of the Utah Agricultural College. 



E. D. BALL, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., 



Director of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. 



L. A. MERRILL, B.S., 



'Agricultural Expert Salt Lake Route and United States Mining, 

 Smelting and Refining Company. 



R. A. HART, B.S., C.E., 



Supervising Drainage Engineer of the United States Department 



of Agriculture. 



J. C. WHEELON, 



Chief Engineer of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. 



It is to be hoped that the articles herein will correct, in a measure, 

 the general misapprehension regarding alkaline soils. "Alkali," as the 

 term is commonly used in the west, conveys to the average mind some 

 harmful substance whose presence in soils renders the land practically 

 valueless from an agricultural standpoint. That the prevailing opinion 

 is contrary to the fact is shown by the contributions to this publication, 

 notably in the initial article by Prof. E. W. Hilgard. 



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