THE IERIGATION AGE. 



59 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Ira W. McConnell, supervising en- 

 gineer in charge of government work 

 in Colorado, Nebraska, South Da- 

 kota, Kansas, Oklahoma and southern 

 Wyoming, has resigned his position 

 to accept a more lucrative position 

 with a private concern. Mr. McCon- 

 nell entered the service in 1903 and 

 soon thereafter was made resident 

 manager of the Umcompahgre project 

 in Colorado. In connection with his 

 resignation officials in the reclamation 

 department at Washington assert that 

 each year brings added difficulties in 

 securing competent engineering abil- 

 ity for government work. 



As official representative of the gov- 

 ernment at Santiago, Chile, Alberto 

 Alibaud has been making quiet but 

 extensive investigations of the irriga- 

 tion projects in this country. Several 

 months ago he left Washington, D. C, 

 and after visiting many points in the 

 northwest is now finishing his trip 

 through the southwest. In a recent 

 interview he stated that Chile pre- 

 sented many of the topographical fea- 

 tures to be found in the district west 

 of the Rocky Mountains, and that for 

 this reason his government had 

 deemed it advisable to secure detailed 

 information as to the methods of irri- 

 gation in the United States. He will 

 return to Santiago about January 1 to 

 present his report in official form. 



That Russia is evincing great inter- 

 est in American methods of irrigation 

 is shown by the presence in the United 

 States at the present time of three 

 official representatives of that govern- 

 ment. Tihon Polner, secretary of the 

 Zemstvos of the Russian empire, and 

 F. Van Kesel Renard, secretary of the 

 imperial Russian Consulate at Mon- 

 treal, have been traveling extensively 

 in the west and recently were in 

 California. Aside from irrigation mat- 

 ters, these representatives are study- 

 ing colonization and agricultural 

 methods and upon their return to 

 Montreal will make a detailed report 

 of the investigations. E. Skorniakoff. 

 an eminent engineer in the employ of 

 Russia, has already spent several 

 months in the United States, but is 

 now planning to remain in California 

 for the winter before returning to St. 

 Petersburg. In published interviews 

 he states that southern provinces of 

 Russia are now under irrigation, but 

 that within the past decade there has 

 been no especial interest or advance- 

 ment in the methods of reclaiming 

 arid lands. The congestion of popu- 

 lation in many of the large cities of 

 Russia now demands solution and the 

 government has delegated Mr. Skor- 

 niakoff to make recommendations 

 looking to the storage and distribu- 

 tion of water over great tracts in 

 southern and middle provinces of 

 Russia. 



Tsuneo Tokumi, Japanese engineer 

 stationed at Formosa, is now making 

 a trip through the south, securing in- 

 formation as to methods of drainage 

 to reclaim swamp lands. In connection 

 with his visit he states that his gov- 

 ernment projects an immense drain- 

 age system for Formosa, involving the 

 expenditure of nearly $15,000,000 for 

 the reclamation of about 300,000 acres 



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