THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



307 



A TOUR OF THE WORLD AWHEEL. 



An unusual trip was started the latter part of 

 June by two Moline (111.) men, who will make a tour of 

 the world awheel. This trip will take from two to three 

 years, will cover 50,000 miles or more, and will take 

 them through thirty-five or more countries, of Europe, 

 Asia and northern Africa. The trip on land will be 

 made by wheel unless absolutely impossible to do so. The 

 two men who show the usual American vigor are George 

 E. Holt and Lester R. Creutz. They will depart from 

 New York for Liverpool the latter part of June, from 

 Liverpool they will make the circuit of the British Isles, 

 pass through England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. 

 Crossing to France they will then go northeast to Bel- 

 gium, Holland, Denmark and Sweden to Stockholm. 

 From Stockholm they will cross to St. Petersburg, 

 thence southwest through Russia, North Germany, 

 France and Spain to Tangiers. During the winter they 

 will pass through North Africa, crossing to Morocco, 



GEORGE E, HOLT. 



Algeria and Tripoli, crossing the Mediterranean to 

 Sicily. They will then ascend the Italian peninsula and 

 Switzerland, thence to Vienna, thence south through 

 Austria, Servia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Romellia, Turkey 

 and Greece. From Athens they will again cross the 

 Mediterranean and will go as far up the Nile as prac- 

 ticable. Returning to Cairo they will then go through 

 the Holy Land and down the Red Sea, stopping at 

 Medina, Mecca and Aden. They will go by boat from 

 Aden to Persia, and then on their wheels will pass 

 through portions of Persia, Baluchistan, around the 

 Indian peninsula, through Burma, Siamese peninsula 

 to Singapore. From Singapore they will make a side 

 trip to Sumatra and Borneo, thence to the Philippine 

 Islands. From Manila they go to Canton, China. From 

 China they will visit Korea, and from there they will 

 go to Japan. Having visited in the land of the Mikado 

 they will sail for the Hawaiian Islands, and from that 

 point will sail to San Francisco, and thence by rail to 

 the starting point. 



During the trip Messrs. Holt and Creutz will repre- 

 sent THE IRRIGATION AGE and prepare illustrated arti- 

 cles for this paper, as well as do special work for vari- 

 ous class publications. 



Last week we sent in a resolution to the farmers' 

 congress condemning the hocus-pocus methods employed 

 by the forestry service in keeping settlers from going 

 onto reservations for the purpose of cleaning out irri- 

 gation ditches and repairing reservoirs as was done 

 on the Grand mesa reserve last summer. It seems 

 that other people have been having trouble along this 

 line and we quote what C. F. Albertson of Eagle county 

 has to say about it: "While building a ditch that 

 headed in a timber reserve I met with no resistance, but 

 after having it completed and my decree allowed accord- 

 ing to the state law, a range rider said I would have to 

 get a permit before I could clean it out and run water. 

 I got a surveyor to make duplicate maps and field 

 notes which, when completed, cost over one hundred 



LEsTER R. CREUTZ 



dollars. I then was compelled to furnish a $2,000 bond 

 for all damages that might incur from it. The pa- 

 pers and maps have been back and forth from Wash- 

 ington four different times, which has consumed two 

 years already. I am now notified that my permit will 

 be allowed as soon as I comply with the law by clean- 

 ing out and burning all the dead and down timber for 

 fifty feet on each side of the ditch, which, by the way, 

 runs three and one-half miles through such timber. The 

 lowest estimated cost to clean the same is a thousand 

 dollars. I can not afford to clean up as required, so I 

 may have to move out and leave eight years' hard work. 

 I will say that I believe all timber reserves according 

 to the present ruling a public nuisance. The expensive 

 and stringent rules that have to be complied with to 

 get a permit to build a ditch or reservoir or clean out 

 and maintain a ditch almost puts it out of reach of a 

 poor man to make a home depending on a reservation 

 for its water supply or for grazing cattle." Denver 

 Field and Farm. 



