Excerpt from The Irrigation Age, Vol. 13
Upon final segregation, the desert character of the land will be held to be finally settled. Both Congressman Shaforth and Jenkins waived the right to push their individual bills in support of the committee bill, but since the war with Spain the whole matter has lain in abeyance.
The report received the enthusiastic applause of the Congress and the committe received hearty thanks for the manner in which its duties had been performed.
The Congress has one firm friend in the "high places" in Secretary Bliss of the Interior Department. Recognizing the fact that preservation of our forests is dependant in a great measure upon irrigation, he is a staunch upholder of the latter cause and President Carey, as well as the members of Congress realize how much they are indebted to him for the good work he has done in their behalf.
The resolutions proposed by Geo. H. Maxwell, of California, which were embraced in his article "Annex Arid America," appearing in the September number of the AGE, were adopted by the Congress. These comprise the resolutions of the Phoenix Irrigation Congress - "Arid Land Reclamation" and "Conditional State Cession;" resolution of the Lincoln Congress, "United Ownership of Land and Water;" the endorsement of the Chittenden report on Federal storage reservoirs and the endorsement of recommendation of Elwood Mead as to the leasing of the grazing lands.
The Congress showed its appreciation of President Carey's work in the past by reelecting him president of the body for the coming year. The other officers elected were: Dr. S. B. Young, first vice-president; S. A. Cochran, South Dakota, second vice-president; S. M. Knox, Illinois, third vice-president; O. E. Cutcheon, Michigan, national lecturer; G. H. Maxwell, California, assistant national lecturer; Frank Bond, Wyoming, press clerk.
R. M. Tansill, of Eddy, New Mexico, made a strong and witty plea for Eddy, as the place for the next session of the Irrigation
Congress, claiming that an irrigation con vention should meet where its members might see irrigation in practical operation, and that Eddy, in the Pecos Valley, New Mexico, would afford such an opportunity. As New Mexico had entertained the convention but a few years ago, Mr. TansilPs plea was disregarded and Montana selected as the state in which to hold the eighth annual session, the city to be decided upon by the executive committee. This committee will consist of the following men for the ensuing year: H. L.Kellogg, Colorado: S. M. Knox, Illinois: J. H. Churchhill, Kansas: R. W. Silvester, Maryland: Thomas Knight, Missouri: J. D. O'Donnell, Montana; M. M. McCutcheon, Michigan; T. G. Frost, Minnesota; M. Dougherty. Nebraska: H. B. Maxson, Nevada: S. N. Smith, South Dakota: H. McClin-tock, Arizona; Judge Shurtliff, Utah.
The war with Spain is over, but there is still quite a little "fight" going on between the commanders and the department heads, and an effort is being made to place the blame for the gross mismanagement of the recent campaign where it justly belongs. That there was mismanagement and mistakes that amount to almost criminal carelessness, is generally conceded, but it is not definitely known whether one man or many will have to shoulder the burden of public disfavor. That there were too many "tin soldiers" put in as officers on account of political pulls and that incompetency, which cost many a poor private his life, was the result, none can dispute, and the essayist who tied his article on the "Late War" with red tape instead of blue ribbon, knew what was appropriate to the occasion.
There are thousands of people who sympathize most heartily with the sentiments of Rev. N. Couden, of Michigan, the blind chaplain of the House of Representatives, "In my judgment," said he, "this whole trouble in our camps and army has arisen out of the incompetency of many of the officers: not that they did not wan. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Irrigation Age, Vol. 13 (Classic Reprint) (Federation of Tree Growing Club America)