The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-08
TO REDEEM
ARID LAND.
E. r. Moses of Great Bend Of
fers Prizes
For the Best Written Essays on
Irrigation Methods.
FOR BEST PAPER 500.
For the Second SO and for the
Third, $50 is offered.
List of Topics is Suggested,
Others May be Used.

Great Bend. April Sc. R. Moses, chair
man of the executive committee of the
national irrigation congress, has com
pleted rangements by which he OFFERS
the following sums for papers or essays
relating to irrigation; For the pest pa
per, 500; for the second, $40; for the thlrd
$50. The competition is open to persons
from all parts of the United States, east
or west.
The subjects of the essays shall pertain
to anv matter connected with irrigation.
practice or engineering. The following
topics are suggested. but others may be
Methods of applying water.
Irrigation OF gardens, orchards and field
irrigation by means of wind mills.
Cost of pumping water for irrigation.
Canal and ditch construction, cost and
Water storage. construction of reser-
yoirs and sale of stored waters
Underground waters, their development
Measurement and division of water by
Weirs or mOduleS-
ton
Seepage waters from irrigation
Quality of water. silt, alkal, 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 nor
be historical or legal in character nor con-
tain references to the development of If
rigatiOn in foreign countries, except as il
Illustrative of local conditions. but should
be devoted to topics of live Importance to
the people of the present day. giving es-
pecial attention to costs and values
The substance of the papers should con-
sisJ 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 in
strucJiOn of men of fair degree of eduCa-
ton and common sense. who may desire
10 know about irrigation, giving plain
statements of methods and results in
clear accurate, concise manner published
matter or compilation from books Will not
be accepted and the origin of all infor-
nation obtained from public documents,
reports, journals. pamphlets and other
printed material must be clearly indicated
and nun reference given by title and page.
The scope OF the papers should be linn
tied 10 one or two main points, not at
tempting TO cover the whole field of ir-
rigatiOn, but going into details of the sin
gle matter under Considera ton In short.
each paper should be a unit by itself. The
length of the paper should nor be less
than 10000 words or over 20 600. Each pa
per should be accompanied by suitable
illustrations, photographs, maps or draw
Ineligible artistic finish NOT being es-
sential- Photographs should be of mod
crate size and clear, so that they can be
reproduced.
The competition is open to engineers,
water superintendent. canal or ditch
builders. rrigatOrs. farmers and, in fact,
70 any man or woman who can state in
telusIDIy some new or valuable fact 1t
Is not open, however. to hydrOgraphers of
lhe SeolOglcal survey or other Salaried
employees of the national government.
Preference will be given to clear state
mentS OF experiments or Investigations
carried on by private enterprise to test
the practicability of various methods of
applying water either in the arid or hu-
MID regions In all cases full statement
should be given of areas, dimensions. and
especially of cost of construction of ap-
plying water and value of the returns
The manuscripts should preferably be
fypewritten, but not necessarily if written
IN clear, legible hand. They should be
Moses
before July 1. 1897 On that date he, with
Two other persons. viii begin to examine
the manuscripts The results will be an
nounced at the Lincoln. Neb., meeting of
the national irrigation congress.
The right is expressly reserved TO re-
1ect any and all manuscripts. If accepted
the money Will be paid at or shortly after
the Lincoln meeting. the authors sur
rendering al further claim The paDers
Will probably be published later under
me me name OF their authors and with fun
Illustrations, a short abstract being read
al the time of the congress-