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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



The mineral resources of the West are 

 Mineral just beginning to be developed. Hundred? 



Resources. of millions of dollars are yet to be taken 



from Western mines to swell the rushing 

 current that is already flowing through the channels 

 of commercial activity. 



Unusual activity is noticeable all along 

 Unusual the Northern Pacific route from St. Paul 



Activity. to Seattle and Portland. New towns arc 



springing up and thousands of acres of 

 new land are being brought under cultivation. Land 

 values are going up, and those who are fortunate 

 enough to be on the ground will soon become wealthy. 

 Irrigation is fast blazing the way for civilization 

 through regions that many believed could never be 

 reclaimed. 



When American manufacturing first as- 

 Of Interest to sumed importance, business conditions 

 Manufacturers, were in a state of solution all were upon 



the same basis, and all were operating on 

 about the same system. Soon certain lines found a new 

 means of adding emphasis, and advertising commenced. 

 Since then business methods have been in a state of evo- 

 lution. The source of the river of trade has been found 

 in the consumer, and it flows straight from him through 

 the dealer, the traveling man and the jobber to the 

 factory. Formerly it was supposed that the current 

 ran in the opposite direction. Many are still working 

 against the stream and making slow headway. Eeverse 

 your plan. Argue your case before the consumer; con- 

 vince him of the value of your product. Awaken his 

 interests; secure his demands. You will find the force 

 of the current that flows from him compelling to the 

 dealer and the jobber and profitable to you. This 

 means permanent trade in ever-increasing volume and 

 independence of business conditions for you. 



The sudden death of Mr. John Saltav, 

 Brilliant Jr., on July 12th deprives the engineer- 



Man Gone. ing world of one of its most active mem- 

 bers. Mr. Saltar was a graduate of the 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, X. Y., clas< 

 of '67. 



Upon graduation he accepted a position as civil 

 engineer with an Eastern railroad, later being appointed 

 city engineer at Saratoga, X. Y., where he served for 

 some time, giving much satisfaction. Later his services 

 were secured by the government of Ecuador, where he 

 was given charge of important works going on at that 

 time, upon the successful completion of which he again 

 turned his attention to railroad work in this country, 

 finally accepting a position with the Xorth Chica.sro 

 Steel Works. This position he resigned in 1881 to ac- 



cept the management of the Western department of 

 the Otto Gas Engine Works of Philadelphia. About 

 seven years ago he was elected president of the company, 

 which position he held at the time of his death. 



Under his efficient management all the larger sizes 

 of the Otto engines have been perfected and placed on 

 the market. 



The name of John Saltar, Jr., is probably best 

 known to the engineering world, however, as the in- 

 ventor of the submarine engines now being used in all 

 the submarine boats throughout the world. 



Mr. Saltar was an active member of the Masonic 

 order and of the Western Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers. 



Interment took place at Rockford, 111., the place 

 of his birth. 



Agriculture in its highest form has been 

 Agriculture the object of great attention from legis- 

 and Public lators for the past few years, and there 

 Schools. is now scarcely a State or Territory in the 



entire union that is not able to claim 

 the honor of possessing an agricultural college or uni- 

 versity. Heretofore, however, it has never seemed to 

 enter the minds of the law makers or pedagogues to 

 install agriculture as an essential study in the grade 

 schools of the State. Just as long as they maintained 

 an agricultural college for those who desire to fit them- 

 selves for the profession of farming they considered 

 their part in the educational scheme had been well 

 performed. This age of progressiveness is not satisfied 

 with splicing in a little of agriculture for grown-up 

 students alone, but is insisting that the beginners in 

 town and country .schools alike receive instruction along 

 agricultural lines. It would seem that, it is high time 

 the city children be given an inkling of what agricul- 

 ture means and become acquainted with the more crude 

 facts of the operation of a farm, if no attempt be made 

 to go into details, as is the case at the agricultural col- 

 leges where farming is being taken up as a science. 

 Long have the funny papers made the countrymen the 

 butt of the countless jokes that have arisen from his 

 greenness concerning city life, but the farmer has 

 ample opportunity to get back at them when the city 

 boy or the city-raised grown-up goes to the country 

 and attempts to delve into the more simple mysteries of 

 the farm. What a world of silly, yet genuinely inquisi- ' 

 tive, questions are propounded by the learned city bred 

 when he lands against a new farm proposition that even 

 the hired man of the place knows from start to finish. . 



With a modified system of agricultural education 

 adopted in city institutions of learning all this dense 

 ignorance upon the part of the urban resident will be 

 in part done away with. Xo more will we hear the 

 city man asking how old a yearling is, or confounding 



