THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1913. 



NO. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Death 

 of 



Judge 

 Kinney^ 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is exceedingly 

 sorry to record the death of Judge 

 Clesson S. Kinney of Salt Lake City, 

 author of "Kinney on Water Rights." 

 Judge Kinney has been in close 

 touch with this journal for many 

 years and has assisted its publisher at various times 

 with information of value to its readers, in return 

 for which an effort was made to aid him in his 

 commendable work. 



Twenty years of Judge Kinney's life were spent 

 in the preparation of this great work, now in print, 

 published by a firm in San Francisco. His death 

 was, no doubt, a result of the arduous work encoun- 

 tered in its preparation. 



When the writer last met Judge Kinney in Salt 

 Lake City, in August of last year, he was supposed 

 to be recovering- from a prolonged and severe at- 

 tack of inflammatory rheumatism, and he expressed 

 the hope that after a month or two of rest he would 

 be fully recovered. He had just finished copy for 

 the last volume of his work, and figured on going 

 away for a month or two to recuperate. His death 

 occurred in Honolulu in February and the remains 

 were brought to Salt Lake City for burial. 



Judge Kinney was recognized as the best 



posted man in the world on the legal phase of water 

 rights as associated with irrigation. He was, more- 

 over, a wonderfully fine descriptive writer on the 

 history of irrigation in various countries of the 

 world, having made a study of the subject since his 

 school days. 



His work, "Kinney on Water Rights," will be 

 a fine monument to his memory. 



Portland 

 Turns 

 Congress 

 Down 



Word comes to us that Portland, 

 Oregon, through the Secretary of 

 the Commercial Club of that city, 

 has turned down a proposition from 

 the International Irrigation Congress 

 to hold its 1913 session in that city, 

 and a letter has been sent to the secretary to that 

 effect. 



It seems that the Board of Governors of the 

 International Irrigation Congress has been trying 

 to find a city to entertain the congress. So far as 

 we have been advised it has not succeeded. 



It is the opinion of those who are familiar with 

 the situation that it would do the congress good 

 to let it have a year's time for reflection. Perhaps 

 a little leisure may bring some people to a realiza- 

 tion that if it has any excuse for existence it should 



