THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1907. 



NO. 9 



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It is with much gratification that the 

 Mr. Beard readers of THE IRRIGATION AGE will 

 Honored learn of the election of Mr. W. A. Beard, 



chairman of the board of control of the 

 Fifteenth National Irrigation Congress, to the position 

 of secretary and manager of the State Board of Trade 

 of California. Mr. Beard's work on behalf of the com- 

 ing Congress and his years of tireless labor in the devel- 

 opment of the Sacramento valley have shown to the 

 people of the state his capacity and his call to a broader 

 field is but a recognition of his superior attainments. 

 He is a man of broad views, high ideals and indefatiga- 

 ble energy, and while his assumption of the duties of his 

 new position will mean a loss to the Sacramento valley, 

 it promises great things for the state as a whole. Mr. 

 Beard assured the newspapers, however, that his eleva- 

 tion will in no way interfere with his position or work 

 with reference to the National Irrigation Congress, to 

 which he is to give his entire time until after the 

 gathering in September. 



projects, but the undertakings have been too stupendous, 

 too large to be encompassed by individual effort, and 

 the attempts have all been unsuccessful. It is the 

 unanimous opinion of drainage experts that the govern- 

 ment is the only force which can successfully under- 

 take the project and the favorable report of the Flint 

 bill by the public lands' committee of the United States 

 Senate during the Fifty-ninth Congress shows that pub- 

 lic interest is becoming aroused. It took the advocates 

 of the law authorizing the Federal government to re- 

 claim arid lands, twelve years to force its passage ; let us 

 hope the Flint bill, or at least a measure embodying its 

 chief provisions, will soon become a law. We have ex- 

 cellent examples of the working of the system in Euro- 

 pean countries so there need be no hesitancy on the part 

 of law-makers because of a doubtful success. 



Elsewhere in this issue we print an article 

 Possibilities by a drainage expert relative to the im- 

 of Drainage, mense possibilities of drainage under Fed- 

 eral supervision. When one considers that 

 over 50,000,000 acres, an area greater than any one 

 state in the Union, are now nothing more than pestilent 

 mosquito-breeding swamps, the lurking place of malaria 

 and the dread yellow fever, he wonders that the Federal 

 government has not already made a move in the matter. 

 True, individual states and corporations have expended 

 thousands of dollars and years of time on drainage 



On Wednesday, June 26, at Billings, 

 Opening of Mont., occurred the dedicatory exercises 

 p u " opening to settlement the Huntley irriga- 



tion project, constructed by the United 

 States government. The drawing for places was done 

 in the presence of Hon. J. R. Garfield, secretary of the 

 interior; Hon. E. C. Ballinger, commissioner of the 

 general land office; Hon. Charles D. Walcott, director 

 of the United States geological survey; Hon. F. H. 

 N"ewell, chief engineer of the reclamation service, and 

 Hon. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau of forestry. 

 First place was won by a resident of Billings, and 

 second and third by citizens of Joliet, 111. The Hunt- 

 ley reclamation project was begun in 1905 and was 

 recently completed at a cost to the government of ap- 



