THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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purposes irigating 2,000 acres of land in Stevens 

 county, twenty-two miles North ; of Spokane. The 

 water will be pumped from Dragon creek. Gen. J. D. 

 Mclntyre, engineer for the association, says it has 

 a membership of 300, the land being sold in five 

 and ten-acre tracts at $120 the acre, payments being 

 made on a basis of $1 the acre per month. 



Col. W. M. Ridpath and former United States Sen- 

 ator George Turner, of Spokane, have plans to irrigate 

 1,165 acres of land and drain 400 acres of land at 

 Priest Rapids on the Columbia river, southwest of 

 Spokane. The ditch will be three miles long, and as 

 soon as it is completed in the spring a system of in- 

 tensified farming will be taken up. 



The Kettle Falls Irrigation Company has been 

 incorporated in Spokane county with a capital of 

 $500,000 to utilize the water of the Columbia river 

 on several thousand acres of land. H. J. Cole, of Spo- 

 kane, is one of the promoters of the plan. 



The Western Irrigation Company has been incor- 



AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING. 



BY C. J. ZINTHEO, 



Expert of Farm Mechanics, Formerly United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



"Engineering is the art of directing the great 

 sources of power in nature for the use and convenience 

 of man." The gradual widening of the scope of the 

 word "engineer" is very interesting. It was used as 

 long ago as the time of William the Conqueror, to desig- 

 nate one who had the ability to design and construct 

 works of value such as castles or fortifications, or 

 bridges, especially in connection with military affairs. 

 It soon took on a wider meaning and was properly ap- 

 plied to men having ability to design 'and construct, 

 or operate works of practical utility in times of peace. 

 The military men having simply been called "engi- 

 neers," it become desirable to designate those who were 

 doing similar work in times of peace in some way to 



Abundant Water for Irrigating Purposes a Scene in the Northwest. 



porated by John Krischwing and his associates with a 

 capital of $500,000. 



The Spokane Valley Land and Water Company 

 has been successful in condemnation proceedings for 

 the riparian rights to an arm of Liberty lake. The 

 jury which heard the case in the Spokane Superior 

 Court awarded R. Madson damages to the extent of 

 $2,000. 



The engineer at the United States Government's 

 Okanogan irrigation project at Riverside, Wash., west 

 of Spokane, announces that sufficient power can be 

 generated from the main canals to pump water for the 

 irrigation of 4,000 acres of land along the east side of 

 the Okanogan river. The land is part of the south half 

 of the Colville reservation. 



distinguish them from the military engineers, and so 

 they were called "civil engineers." As time progressed 

 those who were able to design or contract something of 

 value in the realm of mechanics, or other fields of human 

 effort, were called "mechanical engineers," "mining 

 engineers," "naval engineers," "electrical engineers," 

 or "chemical engineers." The meaning of the word, as 

 well as its application, has broadened so that at the 

 present time the one who controls the machinery of a 

 ship, as well as the one who handles the throttle of a 

 locomotive, is called an "engineer." 



We also have the "irrigation engineer," who solves 

 the problems of distributing water, preparing the land, 

 and designing systems of irrigation, as distinguished 

 from the civil engineer, who perhaps constructs the 

 dams for collecting the water used by the irrigation 

 engineer. 



The "drainage engineer" designs and constructs 

 drainage systems for the benefit of our agricultural 



