THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1906. 



NO. 8 



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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Mr. A. P. Anderson, a graduate of the 

 New Washington State College in the course of 



Assistant. Civil Engineering, and who has been in 



the service of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey in the past years, has been engaged by the 

 Montana Agricultural College and Experiment Station 

 as an assistant in civil engineering and assistant ex- 

 periment station engineer. Mr. Anderson will arive 

 at Bozeman June 1. 



National 



Association 



Report. 



We are publishing in this issue a report 

 presented and adopted by the National 

 Association of Manufacturers at their 

 annual meeting held in New York, May 

 15th. 



This report was prepared and forwarded to us by 

 Mr. L. M. Byles, Chairman of the Committee on 

 Irrigation of that organization. Owing to the late 

 hour at which the report reached us, it is impossible 

 to discuss any of its special features; and we are pub- 

 lishing it in complete form and will reserve comment 

 for future issues of THE IRRIGATION AGE. One 

 feature concerning this report which forcibly im- 

 presses us is the fact that so large and strong an 

 organization as the National Association of Manu- 

 facturers is taking an active interest in all irriga- 

 tion development work throughout the Western coun- 

 try. We feel that this is a good sign, and that the 

 association is to be complimented on having appointed 

 a committee who have gone into the matter in such 



an exhaustive manner. A hurried glance over this 

 report reveals a peculiar stand taken on the matter of 

 leasing public lands, which will be discussed more ex- 

 tensively in our June issue. 



The Montana Experiment Station has 

 Effort to Bet- commenced a series of investigations on 

 ter Conditions.the ground and seepage waters of the 



State, with a view of bettering some of 

 the conditions which are making so much trouble and 

 expense throughout the irrigated portions of Montana. 

 Upon the Experiment Station farm is a considerable 

 tract which has been too wet for pasture land. This 

 land it is proposed to drain by a somewhat novel system, 

 making use of the waters from same to irrigate other 

 portions of the farm. Machinery for a pumping plant 

 has been ordered and the work of installing has already 

 commenced. Some of the farmers in the valley who 

 have similar conditions have investigated the plans of 

 the engineer and have had sufficient confidence in the 

 outcome of the plan to not await results, but have com- 

 menced to develop their own and similar lands. 



Drainage investigations will be carried on by the 

 Station in the Yellowstone Valley this year, where con- 

 siderable tracts of land have been almost ruined from 

 seepage causes alone. Attempts to drain the valley 

 lands has met thus far with indifferent success. This 

 valley is underlaid at a slight depth with quicksand, 

 which makes the usual methods of drainage both ex- 

 pensive and unsatisfactory. 



