THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIII 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1908. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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Owing to the fact that the editor of THE 

 Delay in IRRIGATION AGE was detained at the Con- 



Date of gress at Albuquerque, until the third of 



Issue. October, and could not reach Chicago be- 



fore the fifth, after which a report of the 

 Congress, such as appears in this issue, was prepared, 

 it was impossible to bring this number of THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE out on the tenth of the month, which is the 

 usual date of issue. It was thought best to delay the 

 October number for a few days and give a fair report of 

 the Congress in that issue. The principal papers de- 

 livered at this Congress will appear in these columns 

 from time to time during the coming year. 



We are presenting in this issue a paper on 

 Beaman the National Forests and Forestry Service, 



Scores which is taken from a report of the pro- 



Pinchot. ceedings of the Sixteenth National Irriga- 



tion Congress, said paper having been de- 

 livered before the Congress by Judge D. C. Beaman, of 

 Denver. This paper attracted more than ordinary atten- 

 tion owing to the fact that it was a severe criticism of 

 the methods of the Forestry Bureau and directly an- 

 tagonized the views of those who are adherents of the 

 Pinchot policy of conservation. 



Judge Beaman has made a very careful study of 

 this subject and is by long odds the best posted man in 

 the ranks of the opposition to the Forestry Bureau. He 

 has made a study of forestry affairs and hopes to prove 

 that Mr. Pinchot's policy of reforestation will be of 



little service to the present or other generations within 

 the next one or two hundred years. 



He maintains that it would be much better to plan 

 out work of developing the west so as to allow all lands 

 susceptible of agriculture to be thrown open, regardless 

 of whether they are in forest reserves or not. 



It is our intention to publish regularly hereafter, 

 articles from well known opponents of the Forestry 

 Service, which will exploit the views of the opposition 

 to that serivce. 



The 



Irrigation 

 Congress. 



The Sixteenth Natipnal Irrigation Con- 

 gress has come and gone, and those who 

 attempt to clearly describe all that trans- 

 pired in connection with that Congress, 

 both in open meeting as well as under 

 cover, will find it a difficult task and perhaps learn that 

 after a careful description they have made enemies of 

 the intriguers who under the surface carried out a plan 

 which had been maturing during the past year under the 

 able generalship of the director of the Eeclamation 

 Service and some of his trusted allies outside of the 

 Service. The gentlemen who have assisted in framing 

 up a political propaganda in the Congress found it 

 necessary to call on some of the old crowd for assist- 

 ance, and one result of the new plan was the bringing 

 back to the fold of George H. Maxwell, of New York, 

 Massachusetts, Illinois and California. It is remarkable 

 that Mr. Maxwell has the audacity allowing that he has 

 more of that quality than the average individual to en- 



