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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



the growth of the town and increase the opportunities 

 of the farmers in the territory surrounding it. 



A fine new hotel has recently been built and 

 named in honor of Mr. I. B. Perrine, the original pro- 

 moter of this vast enterprise. 



When the writer visited this point the first time, 

 in company with Mr. Perrine, the first bag of mail 

 which was ever delivered at the postoffice was carried 

 over in the stage from Shoshone, twenty-five miles 

 away, and delivered to the then little frame store in 

 which the postoffice was established. During his recent 

 visit there the writer counted over one hundred people 

 waiting in line to secure mail from the postoffice, this 

 mail having been delivered by train over the new branch 

 of the Oregon Short Line, which connects Twin Falls 

 with the main line of that railway at Minidoka. 



Between Minidoka and Twin Falls, a distance oi 

 some fifty-odd miles, are many thriving towns, some of 

 which have been located on the federal irrigation project 

 known as the Minidoka, and others farther along on the 

 south side of the Snake River which have been built 

 up on the Twin Falls tract. 



The leader of the National Irrigation 

 Longs for Association is a man gifted with great 

 Notoriety, volubility of speech, much self-importance 



in delivery, considerable occasional vio- 

 lence in manner, and among those who have not heard 

 of him or his methods, he commands considerable atten- 

 tion, rather from the strength of his lungs, however, than 

 from the solidity of his reasoning. Among the many 

 qualities possessed by this individual is an inordinate 

 longing for self-aggrandizement and exploitation of his 

 individualisms. He is prone to publish his own photo- 

 graph in journals subsidized or controlled by his associa- 

 tion. This weakness was emphasized recently by the 

 appearance of a half-tone photo of himself in a "maga- 

 zine supplement" sent out free to country publishers 

 by a company of which he is the head. The inscription 

 read, "Geo. H. Maxwell, Executive Chairman, The 

 National Irrigation Association." The accompanying 

 matter failed to state that this association had been 

 repudiated recently by the National Irrigation Congress. 



The head of the National Irrigation 

 Loyal to a Association is up to his old tricks in at- 

 Misconcep- tempting to discredit THE IRKIGATION 

 tion. ^ GE w jth the railway companies. In 



view of the fact that we have told the truth about his 

 association in St. Louis and elsewhere, where his agents 

 are attempting to secure money for which they give 

 nothing in return, they are attempting to secure prom- 

 ises from the railway managers to withdraw support 

 from THE IRRIGATION AGE. It may be interesting to 

 these gentlemen connected with the railways to know 



that THE IRRIGATION AGE has never asked anything 

 from the companies that it was not willing to pay for. 

 If the different railway lines choose to advertise in the 

 columns of this paper, our space is for sale at card 

 rates. If we choose to accept transportation in lieu 

 of cash for this space, we are in no wise obligated to 

 the railway companies, and if the management of these 

 railways choose to be guided by the misrepresentation 

 of Mr. Maxwell of the National Irrigation Association, 

 as is evident by the attitude of some of the southern 

 roads, they are, of course, at liberty to do so. We 

 will show them, however, that in playing in with the 

 National Irrigation Association they are making a 

 grave mistake. 



The only people we have ever known who have se- 

 cured anything in the way of returns from the National 

 Irrigation Association or its work are Messrs. Maxwell, 

 Boothe and their employes. 



The surprising feature about this whole matter is 

 that men as bright as railway managers are known to 

 be, can be so easily led by men of this class. It is also 

 surprising how loyal this class of men frequently are 

 to a misconception. If they would study the history 

 of the National Irrigation Association and go more 

 carefully into the character of the men who presume 

 to shape the destinies of that organization, it is oar 

 firm belief that they would withdraw from any con- 

 nection with them. To one who is acquainted with in- 

 side facts concerning work of this character, it can 

 be readily seen that the only excuse which this organ- 

 ization has for existence is that its active head is a 

 good hand at working the "press bureau racket" and 

 frequently misleads publishers so that they support 

 editorially a movement which on more close scrutiny 

 would be condemned. 



From recent information received from St. Louis, 

 at present a center of activity in connection with the 

 National Irrigation Association, we are led to believe 

 that Messrs. Maxwell and Boothe secured endorsements 

 from the head of the Reclamation Bureau in Washing- 

 ton, which is equally as misleading to publishers as are 

 the statements made by these two gentlemen themselves. 



The officials of the American Irrigation Federa- 

 tion are at present investigating the connection between 

 the Geological Survey and the National Irrigation 

 Association, and all the facts secured will be furnished 

 and published at an early date. It is expected that very 

 close collusion between the Reclamation Bureau and the 

 Maxwell-Boothe organization will be proved, as well as 

 other interesting conditions concerning this strange and 

 mysterious combination. 



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