THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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WEDNESDAY 



PIRST SESSION. 



10:00 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. 

 Presiding Officer, Hon. John P. Mann, chairman Ways and Means 



Committee, Chicago Association of Commerce. 

 Invocation. 

 Address by Hon. Willet M. Hays. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture 



of the United States, personal representative of Hon. James S. 



Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Subject, "What the Department 



of Agriculture is Doing." 

 Address by Governor R. S. Vessey of South Dakota. Subject, "The 



Call of the Farm." 

 Address by Hon. James T. Lloyd, Member of Congress from Missouri, 



and chairman Democratic Congressional Committee. 

 Addresses by delegates from the Northwestern Division. 



SECOND SESSION. 



2:30 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. 



Presiding Officer. Hon. D. A. Campbell, postmaster of Chicago. 



Address by U. S. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. 



Address by Hon. Frank Mondell, chairman Committee on Public Lands, 

 House of Representatives, Member of Congress at large from 

 Wyoming, author of the Mondell Act; president National Dry Farm- 

 ing Congress. Subject. "Opportunities in the West Under Irriga- 

 tion and Dry Farming." 



Address by Prof. H. W. Campbell of Nebraska, "Father of Dry 

 Farming." 



Addresses by delegates from the Northwestern Division. 



THURSDAY 



FIRST SESSION. 



10:00 a. m. to 12:30 a. m. 



Presiding Officer, Hon. M. P. Buel of Evans, Snider, Buel & Co. 



Invocation. 



Address by Prof. George H. Mead, University of Chicago, special com- 

 missioner of Governor W. F. Frear of Hawaii. 



Address by Mr. Arthur Hooker, secretary National Irrigation Congress, 

 representing Hon. B. A. Fowler, president National Irrigation 

 Congress. 



Address by Howard H. Gross, secretary Farmers' Good Roads League, 

 and late representative of President Roosevelt at Paris International 

 Conference. 



Addresses by delegates from the Western and Southwestern Division. 



SECOND SESSION. 



2:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. 

 Presiding Officer, Dr. James Whitney Hall. 

 Address by U. S. Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. 

 Address by Hon. W. C. Gilbreath, special commissioner of Governor 



John Burke of North Dakota. 

 Address by Prof. Clarei.'Ce E. Edwords, special commissioner of 



Governor J. N. Gillett of California. 

 Addresses by delegates from the Western and Southwestern Division. 



THIRD SESSION. 

 7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. 



Presiding Officer, Alfred R. Urion, president Chicago Board of Educa- 

 tion. 



Address by John Henry Smith, special commissioner of Governor 

 William Spry of Utah. 



Address by Hon. Joseph M. Carey. ex-U. S. Senator from Wyoming, 

 and author of the Carey Act. 



Address by Governor George Curry of New Mexico. 



Addresses by delegates from the Western and Southwestern Division. 



FRIDAY 



FIRST SESSION. 



10:00 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. 



Presiding Officer. Hon. J. C. yaughan, president Vaughan Seed Co. 



Invocation, Rabbi Emanuel Hirsch, of Sinai Temple. 



Address by Governor Bryant B. Brooks of Wyoming. 



Address by Hon. E. J. Watson, State Commissioner of Agriculture. 



Commerce and Industries for South Carolina, and vice-president 



National Irrigation Congress. 

 Addresses by delegates from Southern and Southeastern Division. 



SECOND SESSION. 



2:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. 



Presiding Officer, Hon. John A. Bonnell, president Chicago Board of 



Trade. 

 Address by ex-Governor N. B. Broward of Florida, "The Reclaimer of 



the Everglades." 

 Address by Hon. Edward Wisner of Louisiana. Subject, "Drainage 



Lands." 

 Addresses by delegates from Southern and Southeastern Division. . 



At the morning and afternoon sessions of this day speakers repre- 

 senting the states of the Southern and Southeastern Division addressed 

 the Congress. 



SATURDAY 



FIRST SESSION. 



10:36 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. 



Presiding Officer, Hon. Fred Upham, chairman Board of Review and 



member Republican National Committee. 

 Invocation. 

 Address by Hon. W. K. Kavanaugh, president Lakes-to-Gulf Deep 



Waterway Association. 

 Address by Hon. Cato Sells of Texas. 

 Address by Mr. George Charters, representative California Fruit 



Growers' Exchange. 



Address by Rev. Julius E. De Vos, Director of Colonization for Belgian 

 and Holland Priests and organizer of The National Catholic Colo- 

 nization Society of the U. S. A. 



SECOND SESSION. 



2:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. 

 Ladies Specially Invited. 



Presiding Officer, Hon. George E. Roberts, president Commercial Na- 

 tional National Bank, and former Secretary U. S. Treasury. 

 Address by U. S. Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana. 

 Address by Mrs. J. S. Mayhugh of Nevada. 

 Address by Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham, president Chicago City Gardens 



Association. 



Address by Mrs. Charles D. Greenfield, member of governor's delega- 

 tion from Idaho. 



THIRD SESSION. 

 7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. 



Address by Samuel H. Lea, state engineer for South Dakota. 

 Address by personal representative of Hon. Beverly T. Galloway, chief 



Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Address by personal representative of Hon. C. J. Blanchard, statistician 



U. S. Reclamation Service. 



Address by personal representative of Hon. Milton Whitney, chief 

 Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



SOPHUS RICHARD. 



We show in this issue a half-tone portrait of Mr. Sophus 

 Richard, general manager and treasurer of the French Land 

 and Irrisation Company, a corporation with a capital stock 

 of $300,000, which is developing large areas under irrigation, 

 near French, Colfax County, New Mexico. 



Mr. Richard has been very successful in all his opera- 

 tions, and the company has now 25,000 acres under irrigation, 

 and work has been commenced on a second 25,000 acre tract, 

 which will be put on the market at once. Wonderful results 

 have been obtained bv farmers on the first tract. 



POWER APPLIED DIRECTLY TO WATER. 



A small boy and a hose are usually good companions in the 

 summer time, and if, in watching this combination at play, you have 

 ever noticed the boy pick up the hose a few feet from its end and whirl 



tne new centntugal pump (patented) tor irrigation purposes, described 

 in this article, works, the water being raised by the same force that 

 causes a. flywheel to burst into pieces when revolved too rapidly. 



The most interesting and revolutionary feature of the new pump 

 is in the fact that the power is applied directly to the water, only 

 about three per cent being lost in journal, speed resistance and fric- 

 tion. The pump will draw water at a speed of forty revolutions per 

 minute, and its capacity increases in proportion to the speed of its 

 revolutions. 



In the mechanical construction of the pump there are no runners, 

 plungers, stuffing boxes, or piston rods; in fact, nothing but open pipe. 

 From intake to discharge the open pipe constitutes the pump, con- 

 necting at the top with the driving shaft which whirls it around. Being 

 hung on ball bearings at the top, the pump seeks its own equilibrium 

 at all times, and hangs without any guide except this one journal at 

 the top. Primed full of water, it runs as freely and easily as a 

 balance wheel until the speed is reached where the water starts 

 moving outward in suction arm. It can be plainly seen that the 

 power is thus applied directly to the water, as up to the point just 

 before the water commences to whirl the resistance is practically 

 nothing. 



It is the whirling motion made by the open pipe that causes the 

 water to move from the center to circumference, thereby creating a 

 vacuum in the horizontal pipe. Atmospheric pressure does the rest 

 as in a siphon, power being applied simply to assist natural conditions. 

 When the water is raisea to the top it is discharged through the 

 whirling pipes into a continuous trough or tank. These discharge 

 pipes have the effect, so to speak, of running away from the water 

 they discharge, as does the end of the hose whirled by the boy. 



The pumps are made with the suction pipe connected to a head 

 which runs on ball bearings with four pipes or arms extending hori- 

 zontally, which in revolving causes a perfect balance. 



A number of these pumps have been installed for irrigation pur- 

 poses in the Southern and Western States. They raise water about 

 thirty feet. 



These pumps are manufactured by the Kewanee Siphon Pump Co., 

 whose advertisement appears in this issue. 



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