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whole country as irrigation. I can not help thinking that the 

 time has come for- one or more parties to frame charges 

 against this so-called ''National Irrigation Association" for 

 attempting to divert the Irrigation Law of Congress from the 

 beneficial purpose to provide homes for American citizens, 

 actual homeseekers, into a source of private speculation. 

 Should the President, who has made so many friends out 

 West by taking up the cause of irrigation as warmly as he 

 has, get wind of this combination, I have no doubt he would 

 order an inquiry such as has been carried out in the postal 

 and other frauds which have resulted in the exposure of so 

 many individuals who were being looked upon by their fellow 

 beings as saints and not sinners. I hope to return East via 

 El Paso shortly and shall not fail to keep in touch with you 

 in regard to general ideas .on this subject, as they come 

 under my notice during my run through Utah and Colorado. 

 Yours respectfully, 



E. W. HART. 



PEORIA, ILL., July 11, 1904. 

 MR. D. H. ANDERSON, Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sir : Your article on "Sub-Irrigation" in your last 

 issue of THE IRRIGATION AGE has the right kind of a ring 

 to it and many others are seeing it in the same light ! Too 

 much can not be said of sub-irrigation, as it is the only prac- 

 tical system before the people for draining and fertilizing the 

 soil, saving 50 to 75 per cent of water and the same per- 

 centage in labor. Stronger and healthier trees or vines, more 

 and better fruit. All these points mean something and are 

 worthy of the consideration of the public. Water is too 

 scarce in the arid districts to feed the sun 50 to 75 per cent 

 of it, and this is not all. The flooding with water is in- 

 jurious to any land. It not only leaches the soil, but causes 

 it to bake and get hard, which is very injurious and many 

 other things that lack of space will not permit me to mention. 



Two points in your article were not plain to me : 



First. Is the running of water through the laterals 

 without the aid of an air vent and what means have you to 

 tell when the system is full of water. 



Second. By what means do you retain water upon the 

 side of a hill, as water will naturally run to the lowest point 

 when the pressure is shut off? 



These points are very important in sub-irrigation. 



Think your journal (by exchanging thoughts upon this 

 great subject, irrigation) is doing much to educate the public 

 along this line and the time will soon come when each person 

 will have his own "Irrigating System," indepndent of the 

 "Water Trusts" and by so doing will open up millions 

 of acres of land that can not be irrigated in any other way 

 and also add a million more homes in the arid West. 

 With best wishes and success, I remain, 



Yours truly, W. A. LEE. 



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