THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1913. 



No. 9 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 

 The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODEKN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE IRRIGATOR 



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We note in recent dispatches that 

 The Gifford Pinchot, at orie time director 



Arrogance of the Forestry Division of the U. S. 

 of Department of Agriculture, is heading- 



Ignorance a move to carry out an extensive plan 



of stream control, water measurement, 

 flood prevention, forestry supervision and numerous 

 other ideas on the line of conservation of our nat- 

 ural resources. Whether Mr. Pinchot has absorbed 

 some of George H. Maxwell's ideas or whether the 

 thought which developed this movement originated 

 in his own brain, or was elsewhere borrowed, is a 

 matter of no particular importance. Mr. Pinchot is 

 like a great ma.ny other products of the Roose- 

 veltian Era in having taken on from his superior 

 a longing for notoriety and self-aggrandizement. 

 Mr. Pinchot, in his early connection with for- 

 estry affairs, gave promise of becoming a man of 

 importance in this line in the country, had it 

 not been for the fact that his contact with Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt, and a few others who were high in 

 officialdom under that administration, evidently had 

 the effect on Mr. Pinchot similar to that produced 

 on a new 'graduate from high school or college 

 when handed his diploma. Mr. Pinchot was lion- 

 ized by many well intentioned people throughout 



the western country. No doubt the attention he 

 received at public gatherings and elsewhere had 

 something to do with swelling his head and bring- 

 ing about his arrogant attitude toward honest criti- 

 cism of his work. 



There was a period during the Roosevelt ad- 

 ministration when Mr. Pinchot practically domi- 

 nated the land and forestry affairs of the western 

 country. His statements were accepted without 

 question by the president. The principal informa- 

 tion secured by Colonel Roosevelt concerning the 

 Los Angeles-Owens Valley affair was secured di- 

 rect from Mr. Pinchot or his representatives in that 

 country. 



The public will not be as keen to accept Pin- 

 chot's suggestions of flood control as it would have 

 been earlier in his career. The recent exposure of 

 the manipulation of the Forestry Bureau. will have 

 something to do with further discrediting Mr. 

 Pinchot and his leading supporters. 



The Honorable William E. Humphrey, of the 

 State of Washington, in his speech delivered June 

 2, 1913, before the House of Representatives, on 

 national forests many of which were created dur- 

 ing the Roosevelt regime says : "I want to make 

 the statement in the beginning that I was one man 



