THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1903. 



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EDITORIAL 



MAXWELL-TONS' "BRAYS" ARE BONNIE. 



When it comes to advertising, Maxwell is up to 

 date. Through his news bureau he sent out to the news- 

 papers, three weeks in advance of the meeting of the 

 Irrigation Congress, the speech he delivered before that 

 body. In the copies thus sent out appeared the follow- 

 ing, in parentheses: "The congress was electrified"; 

 "This eloquent outburst brought the delegates to their 

 feet" ; "The great champion of irrigation was applauded 

 to the echo"; "The audience went wild." 



The delegates who were present, heard the speech, 

 and noted the oppressive silence with which his "out- 

 bursts of eloquence" were received, are having a merry 

 laugh at the newspapers that were gulled into printing 

 the "bureau's" advance reports. The A rizona Blade. 



Maxwell, 

 Newell, 

 Hitchcock 

 & Co. 



The combination known as Maxwell, New- 

 ell, Hitchcock & Co., are pushing work 

 on the Tonto dam in Arizona for fear 

 that something may happen to stop it 

 before they get under full headway. 

 Some day the inside history of all this 

 work will be written and some day, also, 

 the farmers who are signing an agreement to pay $15 

 on each acre served by this dam, will awaken. Perhaps 

 it is, on the whole, a good thing to give this combin- 

 ation plenty of rope. Perhaps you probably know the 

 old storv about the Romans on the sand hill. 



The editor of IRRIGATION AGE returned 



,-., recently from an extended trip through 



Observations. , i , T . . 



Colorado, New Mexico and parts ot Ari- 

 zona and old Mexico where he secured a 

 lot of data for future articles in these columns. The 

 work along lines of irrigation controlled bv private capi- 

 tal was never more active than at present. Large sums 

 of money are being expended by promoters of pro- 

 jects independent of government assistance. One strik- 

 ing feature observed in Colorado, New Mexico and 

 Texas is the unusual attention given to under flow and 

 the large amount of new work projected along the 

 line of pump work for irrigation. This is particularly 

 noticeable along the valley of the Rio Grande, both in 

 New Mexico and Texas. 



The splendid work accomplished by the faculty 

 of the New Mexico College of Agriculture, at Mesilla 

 Park, is attractiiig wide attention throughout the west, 

 as well as in all other sections where lifting a large vol- 

 ume of water from an underground flow is impor- 

 tant to agricultural or other pursuits. 



The pumping plant at this station is under the 

 charge of Professors John J. Vernon and Francis E. 

 Lester. It is our intention to begin with our December 

 number the publication of bulletin No. 45 issued by this 

 station. This bulletin, which is finely illustrated, will 

 run through several numbers of THE AGE. Professor 

 Luther Foster, president of the college and director of 

 the station, is very much interested in this line of 

 work and offers every encouragement to Professors 

 Vernon and Lester in their investigations. 



