THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1904. 



No. 9 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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EDITORIAL 



The Irrigation Age has been informed that an in- 

 vestigation has been started by several gentlemen, who 

 are prominently placarded as officials of the National 

 Irrigation Association, which will, no doubt, result in 

 the resignation from that organization of a large 

 number of manufacturers whose names have been 

 prominently used by its officials. If the proper steps 

 are taken and the investigation is thorough there is no 

 question but that all the men interested will withdraw 

 from membership. 



Utah 

 Irrigation. 



We are presenting in this issue the first 

 of a series of articles by Prof. John A. 

 Widtsoe, director of the Utah Experiment 

 Station, on the irrigation investigations 

 at thai station. This article will be found highly inter- 

 esting and will be followed by others, which will prove 

 of great value to all our readers. Beginning with our 

 issue of August, we will publish in serial form Bulletin 

 No. 86, issued by the Agricultural College of Utah . on 

 "The Eight Way to Irrigate." This article will be 

 profusely illustrated with cuts made from photographs 

 taken in the fields of the experiment station. The pho- 

 tographs used for these illustrations are considered the 

 best irrigation pictures yet brought out and will ma- 

 terially beautify and strengthen this series of articles. 



We note a great many comments recently 

 George B. in the daily papers concerning the fitness 

 Cortelyou. of Mr. George B. Cortelyou as head of the 



National Committee and are pleased that 

 the majority of the papers look kindly upon this gentle- 

 man. One remarkable thing about the comments made 

 on the advance of Mr. Cortelyou from the position of 

 court reporter in New York to a cabinet position within 

 a comparatively few years, is that they fail to attribute 

 any direct cause as a ground work for his advancement. 

 While the writer has never had the pleasure of 

 meeting Mr. Cortelyou personally, he has at various 

 times had correspondence with him while he was fill- 

 ing the position of secretary to President McKinley, 

 and later to President Roosevelt, and from the extremely 

 courteous manner in which the gentleman treated all 

 subjects brought to his attention, it is easy to under- 

 stand why he has such a hold on the people with 

 whom he is brought in closest contact. One writer, 

 Mr. Walter Wellman, stated that his success is due to 

 the fact that he has made an effort to do all things 

 well and has paid close attention to the smaller affairs 

 of life, and this is no doubt true. But it is our im- 

 pression that his great strength lies in the fact that 

 he is uniformly courteous with all with whom he is 

 brought in contact, either personally or by correspond- 

 ence, and THE IRRIGATION AGE is glad to testify so 

 far as it may to its appreciation of Mr. Cortelyou, and 

 fully believes that there is nothing good which the 

 future may have in store for him that he does not de- 

 serve. 



