Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-04-05
IRRIGATION ESSAYS WANTED
MIR. e. r.. MOSES, OF GREAT BEND,
OFFERS A SERIES OF PRIZES.
Competition Open to Everyone Ex-
ceptinE Government Employees
Manuscripts Must he Sub
mifted Prior to July 1.

Great Bend, Kas., April 4.-E. R. Moses,
chairman of the executive committee of
the national irrigation congress, has COM
pleted arrangements by which he offers
the following sums for papers or essays re-
lating to irrigation: For the best paper,
$lO0; for the second, SIS; for the third. $50.
The competition is open to persons from all
parts of the United States, East or West.
The subject of the essays shall pertain to
any matter intimately connected with irri-
cation practice or engineering. The FOL
lowing topics are suggested, but others
may be selected:
Methods of applying water.
Irrigation of garden, orchard and field
crops.
Cost of pumping water for irrigation.
Canal and ditch construction. cost and
values.
and sale of stored waters.
Underground waters, their development
and use.
weirs or moduleS.
Quantity of water required for irrigation.
Seepage waters from irrigation.
Quality of water, silt, alkali, etc.
Sewage irrigation.
Water power and irrigation.
The papers should be based as far as
possible upon the experience and observa-
ton of the writer and Should contain new
facts Of general value. They should not
be historical or legal in character nor con-
tain references to the development of irri-
CATION in foreign countries, except as il
Illustrative of local conditions, but shouid
be devoted to topics of live importance to
the people of the present day, giving espe-
cial attention to costs and values.
The substance of the papers should con con
sist of discussion of facts and not of opin-
ions. Political and sociological questions
should not enter, but the matter should be
written for the information and instruction
of men of fair degree of education and
common sense who may desire to know
about irrigation, giving plain statements
of methods and results in clear, accurate
and concise manner. Published matter or
compilation from books will not be ac-
cepted and the origin of all information
obtained from public documents. reports,
journals, pamphlets and other printed ma.
terial must be clearly indicated and full
reference given by title and page.
The scope of the papers should be
tempting to cover the whole field of irri-
cation, but going into full details of the
single matter under consideration. In
The length of the papers should not be
less than 10000 words or over 10000. Each
paper should be accompanied by suitable
Illustrations, photographs. maps or draw
ings. The latter can be crudely done If in
teiligible, artistic finish not being essential.
Photographs should be of moderate size
TIA competition is open, to engineers.
water Superintendents, canal or ditch build
ers. rrgators, farmers and. in fact, to any
some sew mf1 can fact s'dte is net anen
however to photographers of the geologi-
cal survey yn;,r OF o.,;nr salaried employees of the
national gcvernniSnt. Preference will be
given to clear state.nents of experiments or
Investigations carrie-s on by private enter
prise 10 test the prao ticabilitv of various
methods of applying %>.ter either in the
arid or humid regions. IN all cases fIIT
statement should be given Gf an aIess dr,anl nIll
sions, and especially of cost of construntion
of applying water and the valee of the re-.
turns.
The manuscripts should preft-ab,v be
typewriter, but not necessarily, If written
in a clear, legible hand. They shoStd he
sent TO Z. r. Moses, Great Bend, Kas., he
fore July !, 1897. On that date he, with ~,
other persons, will begin to examine ~,
manuscripts. The results will be announceJ
at the Lincoln, Neb., meeting of the ma
tional irrigation congress.
The right is expressly reserved to reject
any and all manuscripts. If accepted the
money will be paid at or shortly after the
Lincoln meeting, the authors surrendering
all further claim. The papers will probably
be published later under the name of their
authors and with full illustrations, a short
abstract being read at the time of the con-
gress.