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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



First congress held at Salt Lake City, September 

 15, 1891, C. C. Wright, of California, president. 



Second congress held at Los Angeles, September, 

 1893, J. S. Emory, of Kansas, president. 



Third congress held at Denver, September, 1894, 

 Elwood Mead, of Wyoming, president. 



Fourth congress held at Albuquerque, September, 



1895, J. E. Frost, of Kansas, president. 



Fifth congress held at Phoenix, Ariz., November, 



1896, C. B. Boothe, of California, president. 



Sixth congress held at Lincoln, Neb., July, 1897, 

 John M. Carey, of Wyoming, president. 



Seventh congress held at Cheyenne, Wyo., Septem- 

 ber, 1898, John M. Carey, of Wyoming, president. 



Eighth congress held at Missoula, Mont., Septem- 

 ber, 1899, Elwood Mead, of Wyoming, president. 



Ninth congress held at Chicago, November, 1900, 

 Thos. F. Walsh, of Colorado, president. 



Tenth congress held at Colorado Springs, October, 



1902, Thos. F. Walsh, Colorado, president. 



(In spring of 1903, Colonel Holmes resigned and 

 Ex. Com. appointed Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, 

 president.) 



Eleventh congress held at Ogden, Utah, September, 



1903, W. A. Clark, of Montana, president. 



Twelfth congress held at El Paso, Texas, Novem- 

 ber, 1904, Gov. G. C. Pardee, of California, president. 



Thirteenth congress held at Portland, Ore., August, 

 1905, Gov. G. C. Pardee, of California, president. 



Fourteenth congress held at Boise, Idaho, Septem- 

 ber, 1906, Geo. E. Chamberlain, president. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



H. B. MAXSON, 

 Secretary National Irrigation Congress. 



THE NATIONAL DRAINAGE ASSOCIATION. 



An Orchard, Arkansas Valley. 



GASOLINE REVERSIBLE EXCAVATOR. 



Mr. C. C. Hutchinson of Portland, Ore., has re- 

 cently patented and is preparing to put on the market, 

 a gasoline reversible excavator, which Mr. Hutchinson 

 claims is the first real improvement in continuous earth 

 moving machinery in twenty-five years. 



This machine, designed to excavating, ditching and 

 grading, has among its objects a provision which enables 

 it to discharge excavated material on the same side of 

 the ditch or canal when the machine is traveling in 

 either direction; this it is claimed will enable deeper 

 working of the excavator in relation to the wheel-level 

 than is possible with other machines. 



Those who are interested in excavating machinery 

 should correspond with Mr. Hutchinson. 



In October last Governor Franz of Oklahoma terri- 

 tory issued a call for a national drainage conference to 

 be held at Oklahoma City on December 5-6 and in- 

 vited the several states, cities and public organizations 

 to send delegates. The chamber of commerce at Ok- 

 lahoma City was active in the movement and assumed 

 the labor and expense of preparing a program and ex- 





A Flock of Fifteen Hundred Turkeys, Arkansas Valley. 



tending invitations to those known to have special in- 

 terest in promoting drainage, and to the general public. 

 While a call of this character from our newest state 

 and a locality bordering the irrigated belt was a sur- 

 prise to some, and thought to be unwarranted by others, 

 it is easily explained when the energy and aggressive- 

 ness of the citizens of the commonwealth is under- 

 stood. 



The representation was not as general as could 

 be desired, yet delegates from sixteen states were reg- 

 istered. The United States Department of the Interior 

 was represented by seven engineers from the topo- 

 graphic and reclamation divisions, while the drainage 

 service of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 was represented by only one. Were it asked what 

 central thought or object was uppermost in the minds 

 of the promoters of the conference, the answer will 

 doubtless be found in the inscription upon the neat 

 badge distributed to the delegates by the chamber of 



Alfalfa Fed Cattle. 



commerce and which was the subject of the address of 

 Mr. George E. Barstow of Texas, namely : "National 

 Irrigation a Fixed Quantity, Why Not National Drain- 

 age?" It was developed later in the meeting that 

 drainage was a much better established quantity in our 

 agriculture than many supposed, though not upon a na- 

 tional basis. The trend of the papers presented and 

 the discussions which followed indicated to some ex- 



