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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



CORRESPONDENCE 



FROM OUR ANTIPODES. 



American Consulate, Sydney, Australia, April 27, 1911. 

 EDITOR IRRIGATION AGE : 



Before leaving Los Angeles last September I wrote you 

 of my intended journey. 



Since arriving here I met a Mr. Mclntosh, Director of 

 Immigration for the South Australian government, and as 

 he leaves here today via Egypt, Italy, London, New York, 

 then Chicago, I have given Mr. Mclntosh a letter of intro- 

 duction .to you. His -visit is to look over the United States 

 reclamation projects and report on same to his government. 



Mr. Mclntosh asked me the best place to have all his 

 mail directed to reach him in Chicago and 1 suggested in 

 your care. I told him I would write you in reference to 

 keeping his mail until his arrival. 



Mr. Mclntosh has been a subscriber of THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE for a number of years and he told me the advertisement 

 on the cover page of the Austin Dredge Machines, Irrigation 

 Ditch Cutters, etc., so appealed to him that he wrote for 

 booklets, etc., and the first thing he did when he took his 

 present position was to order a machine I think he said 

 cost $7,000 for his government. It may be of interest to 

 the Austin people to know just where they are getting re- 

 sults from. I would suggest you taking Mr. Mclntosh to the 

 Austin offices personally. 



Mr. Mclntosh's London address is care Agent General 

 for South Australia, 85 Grace Church street, London, Eng- 

 land. You will get this letter in sufficient time to write 

 Mr. Mclntosh a note that you are looking forward to his 

 coming and that you will hold all mail for him. This will 

 no doubt please him and also feel the welcome for which 

 Americans are noted. I am sure you will enjoy meeting 

 Mr. Mclntosh, even from a personal side. 



Mr. Perkins of the Reclamation Service is a man that 

 he will greatly appreciate meeting, and if you will take him 

 personally to Mr. Perkins I will appreciate it. He knows 

 Mr. Elwood Mead. Very soon I will be in Melbourne, Vic- 

 toria, and I will get after Mr. Mead, as I understand the 

 state of Victoria is about ready to do a little publicity to 

 also reach the American farmer. There is some business 

 to be had here and I am going to look after it. 



I have succeeded in getting the South Australian gov- 

 ernment to adopt the Neal Cure for the Drink Habit, for 

 which I have a lease on the whole of Australia and New 

 Zealand. I am pushing this along and I intend to do a 

 little newspaper work on the side. 



Always address me as above as it is my permanent ad- 

 dress and all mail is forwarded. I am at present in Adelaide, 

 which is 1,100 miles from Sydney. I expect to go to Sydney 

 within two months and return here about the time Mr. 

 Mclntosh returns. Very truly yours, 



ARTHUR HOLLIDAY. 



FLOW OF ONE-EIGHTIETH CUBIC FOOT PER 

 SECOND. 



July 1st, 1911. 

 Editor IRRIGATION AGE: 



In your June issue I notice a communication from E. L. 

 Mattoon, of Stamford, Texas, regarding a flow of one-eighth 

 foot per second. I, too, have a contract with a canal company 

 operating in Idaho under the Carey Act, but my contract calls 

 for one-eightieth instead of one-eight cubic foot per acre per 

 second of time; which reconed from a continual flow during 

 the season would be about three-fourths (24) acre foot per 

 month. Interested Subscriber. 



This flow, J4 cubic foot of water per minute, or 45 cubic 

 feet per hour, or 1,080 cubic feet per day of 24 hours, or 

 32,400 cubic feet per month of 30 days, checks interested 

 subscribers' figures above. This is plenty of water for the 

 average crop. Editor. 



Carloads of laborers are leaving the larger cities of 

 Colorado to work on the Denver Reservoir & Irrigation 

 Company project and it is estimated that within a few 

 days 1,500 men will be employed. 



ABOUT THE BANKING QUESTION. 



To THE EDITOR : 



Following the publication of a letter signed by me in 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE for May, preliminary steps have been 

 taken toward an organized movement in protection of West- 

 ern interests against abuse by Wall street and its banking 

 power. The article attracted wide attention and aroused 

 much feeling, for it disclosed the conspiracy by which early 

 last year projects for reclaiming and improving Western 

 lands were suddenly jolted to a standstill. I need not 

 repeat the statements therein made, but they drew out an 

 expression from many states, favoring such a movement as 

 the one proposed. No relief from the present and dan- 

 gerous condition seems to be possible in any other way, 

 so the people must organize to protect themselves. They 

 can do it, effectively. 



The whole attitude of the banks for more than a year 

 has been hostile to all Western interests. Not only land 

 improvement has been stopped, but every man not pos- 

 sessed of great wealth has been directly or indirectly in- 

 jured. We propose now to create an organization that shall 

 include the farmers, the small business men, the labor unions, 

 and all those who are in sympathy with the interests of the 

 great majority of our citizenship. 



We propose to ask the farmers to deposit no money 

 with their banks until this wrong is righted. If the country 

 banks desire to carry accounts with city banks, let them 

 do it with their own money, and not with the money of 

 the farmers, the smaller merchant, nor the people who 

 get salaries or wages. In the present circumstances such 

 balances are made up from funds deposited by such people 

 as those just named, and find their way through the or- 

 ganized channels of banking business (so called) into the 

 banks of New York, where the city banks carry their bal- 

 ances, and goes directly into Wall street, for the purpose 

 of speculation on the stock exchange. 



This statement is true as a matter of solemn fact, and 

 should be known and corrected by the people who furnish 

 the money. The whole process is an outrage upon the 

 real producers of the wealth of the country, and has been 

 in operation far too long. 



The power of New York and the banking interests has 

 gone , so far beyond the law that bank inspectors, federal 

 and state, acting on orders, have thrown out of the banks 

 all land securities of whatever nature found in the vaults, 

 with the exception of mortgages on city real estate at 

 low interest rates. It is proper and necessary that the 

 people find out where the authority for this arbitrary and 

 wholly unjustifiable course by the bank inspectors originated, 

 and having found that out, it is their special duty as a 

 matter of self defense and of protection to their families, 

 to have the offenders brought to justice. What is every- 

 body's business is nobody's business, when it becomes nec- 

 essary to take public corrective or protective action. This 

 can be done only through an organization such as we pro- 

 pose, and we ask you not only to join it for your own 

 sake, but for the sake of your country and your children 

 to assist in bringing about local banking associations, which in 

 turn can create and perfect a central organization, all work- 

 ing together to the same end and for a common interest. 

 One of the objects of this organization must be to 

 get the government through the attorney general to investi- 

 gate the banking trust. We want an organization strong 

 enough and sufficiently wide spread to force upon the gov- 

 ernment the necessity for action against this criminal busi- 

 ness, and to put the criminals themselves behind the bars. 

 We want the present banking system done away with alto- 

 gether. We want to prevent the adoption of the proposed 

 Aldrich system, which would bring about a condition worse 

 than the one existing now, because it would confer upon 

 the bankers, who own less than 5 per cent of the money 

 they handle, means to extend their power, and further 

 enrich themselves, at the expense of the people who have 

 earned all that money and who own it. 



We intend through this proposed organization to show 

 the farmers how they are harming themselves by banking 

 their money in their neighborhood towns ; the working men 

 how they are handing their enemies a weapon by depositing 

 money in savings banks. We propose to create a banking 

 system that will prevent panics instead of bringing them 

 on. Pending our proposed organization, the United States 



