THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1910. 



No. 10 



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Additional interest in the National Irri- 

 Machinery Men ga tion Congress is attached to the fact 

 at the that the manufacturers and jobbers of 



National Irri- irrigation and farm machinery and farm 

 gation Congress. su PP Hes wil1 probably be represented in 



an exposition at Pueblo. Col. E. W. 

 Fleming, of Kansas City, fourth vice-president of the 

 Congress, started the ball rolling, and Director Markham 

 conceived the idea of bringing these forces into direct 

 relationship with the Congress through the exposition. 

 The Implement Dealers' Club of Kansas City will doubtless 

 be represented and efforts are being made to interest man- 

 ufacturers and jobbers all dver the country. These inter- 

 ests are vitally concerned in the development work of the 

 West, and in no other way can they get into closer touch 

 with the men who are working out irrigation problems 

 than in the manner proposed. An exposition of machinery 

 especially adapts'd to irrigation and general farm work 

 would add tremendously to the interest of the exposition, 

 and certainly result in great future benefit to the manu- 

 facturers themselves. 



There seems to be some doubt as to 

 whether Secretary Ballinger of the In- 

 terior Department will be present at the 

 Irrigation Congress at Pueblo. Press 

 dispatches state that he received a formal 

 invitation early in August but that his 

 reply did not contain the assurance that he would attend. 

 Mr. Ballinger stated that as this was the first official 

 notice that he had received of the meeting of the Congress 

 he was not certain that he could arrange his affairs to 



Secretary 

 Ballinger 

 at the 

 Congress 



allow him to be present, owing to the late date on which 

 he had been invited. There certainly could be no inten- 

 tion on the part of the officers of the Congress to embar- 

 rass Mr. Ballinger by extending a formal invitation to him 

 at a late date, and it is to be hoped that he will not fail 

 to attend. The present agitation of conservation matters 

 will bring before the Congress questions of the greatest 

 importance to the Interior Department, and there is no- 

 body who can speak with the authority or conviction that 

 Mr. Ballinger can. While President Taft's policy will be 

 most vigorously supported by men of influence, his absence 

 from the convention floor would be counted as a distinct 

 disappointment to every friend of conservation and of 

 President Taft. 



Major C. W. Kutz, of the United States 

 The Men Who Army, has been appointed by President 

 Will Spend Taft on the board of United States Engi- 



Twenty Millions neers which will make recommendations 

 Publi Mon y as to the expenditure of the $20,000,000 



to be devoted to reclamation work. 

 Major Kutz, who was stationed at Seattle, attended the 

 first meeting of the board at Washington on July 20. 

 As the preliminary work of the board will require several 

 months the engineering work of the Government in the 

 Puget Sound district will be under Captain Arthur Wil- 

 liams, of Portland, his assistant. The bill appropriating 

 the $20,000,000 for reclamation work provides that before 

 any expenditure of this sum be authorized it must be 

 passed on by this board. Its recommendation is to be 

 made to the president who must approve it personally. 

 The personnel of the board is as follows: Maj. C. W. 



