THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1906. 



No. 3 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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A rumor is afloat that the head of the 

 Failed to Geological Survey has made such repre- 

 Connect. sentations to the Secretary of the Interior 



as to lead him to request President Roose- 

 velt to drop Carl Edwald Grunsky as adviser or head of 

 the Reclamation Service. Eeport further says that the 

 President emphatically declined to remove Mr. Grunsky 

 which is good news to all who are looking for clean 

 work along irrigation lines. To those who are ac- 

 quainted with inside facts it is easy to trace back to 

 the Newell-Maxwell crowd as the instigators of this 

 move. Director Walcott of the Geological Survey has 

 no doubt had a hand in the deal also. Mr. Grunsky is 

 too good a man to be handicapped by this lot of "halo 

 balancers." 



We are representing in this issue three 

 The Union illustrations which were furnished by the 

 Pacific. passenger department of the Union Pa- 



cific Eailway. One is an irrigation scene 

 on that railway in the South Platte Valley; the other 

 is a view of onion fields near Greeley, Colo., while the 

 third shows an irrigated wheat field in Dawson County, 

 Nebraska. It is our intention to show during the com- 

 ing year many views along the line of this railway 

 which will be accompanied by proper descriptive matter. 

 In connection with the use of these articles it 

 occurs to us that the railway companies of the West 

 are given scant credit for the vast amount of valuable 

 literature distributed through their passenger depart- 

 ments and this we believe is particularly true of the 



Union Pacific System. It is not known what department 

 of that well managed system should receive credit for 

 the elaborate and comprehensive reports issued. We 

 presume, however, that the passenger department is 

 responsible and it is not more than fair to say that this 

 class of literature turned out from the offices of the 

 Union Pacific Railway at Omaha is far and away ahead 

 of the average railway literature, in the sense that great 

 care and a vast amount of labor must have been ex- 

 pended in the preparation of statistics which make up 

 these reports. Messrs. Lomax and Fort of the passenger 

 department, as well as Mr. Darlow, of the advertising 

 department of that system, are, no doubt, entitled to 

 a great deal of credit for turning out so much valuable 

 matter. 



Organize. 



The contests which have been provoked 

 in many localities by over aggressiveness 



and insufficient tact on the part of rep- 

 resentatives of the Reclamation Service 

 and unreasonable demands on the part of prior private 

 interests have wrought incalculable injury to private 

 enterprise, to the Reclamation Service, and the entire 

 West, and unless dealt with wisely bids fair to demolish 

 aspirations of the personnel involved, and menaces many 

 practical plans for redemption of arid lands. The per- 

 sistence with which the conflict has been provoked, 

 and the autocratic attitude of Federal representatives, 

 is the most discouraging end to encounter. Clothed in 

 the ample vestments of governmental authority a word 

 is far more potent than from the individual. Uncon- 



