The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-24
NOW PREPARING
THE REPORTS
irrigation Field Work For the
Season Has Ended.
UTAH REPORT is COMPLETED
Is A VALUABLE ADDITION TO
IRRIGATION LITERATURE.
fsneclal 10 The Herald.l


| field work of the irrigation inves-
LEGATIONS of the United States de-
partnent of agriculture for 1902. IN
der the supervision of officers of the
local Office, has been completed, and
the members of the force who have
been in the field have either returned
or will soon return to headquarters to
prepare the results of their summers
work for publication. c. C. Elliott, for
merly editor of the Drainage Journal,
has finished his drainage studies in
Colorado. To enable him to give all
of his time to this work, he has re-
linquished the editorship of the Drain
age Journal, and has been succeeded
by d. A. Anderson of Chicago. who
hereafter will be at the head of both
the Drainage Journal and the Irriga-
ton Age.
Professor o. V. P. Stout of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, VINO, IN cohhec-
ton with Professor ]. NJ wilson OF
the irrigation department of the UNI
versity of California and Mr.. Elliott,
has been preparing working plans Tor
the drainage of large areas injured oy
alkaH in the vicinity of Fresno, mas
returned to his university studies at
Lincoln.
jay d. Stannard, assistant in irriga-
ton Investigations, has recently re-
turned from making study of the
use of water and of seepage on the
Snake and Big Lost rivers in Idaho,
in co-opera ton with State Engineer
ID. w Ross
Frank Bond. irrigation assistant,
whose bulletin on rice culture in Louis
lana and Texas has recently been IS
sued. has continued his studies in those
states
Assistant Arthur P. Slower is coop
| Grating with Director Samuel Fortier
| of the Montana agricultural expert
ment station in the study of irrigation
| from the Gallatin river, near Bozeman-
and the Yellowstone river, west OF
| Billings Mont. This WORK is the first
of an investigation covering the state
of Montana similar to that carried on
| in California in 1900 and in Utah dur
ing the past two years
! E R Morgan water commissioners
for Salt Lake county, Utah, who Is
] also connected with the irrigation in
vestigatiOns. has kept record dur
| ing the past season of the flow OF wa
ter in the principal canals of Jordan
river, Utah, and viii soon arrive and
report.
Irrigation in Utah.
The most comprehensive report to bt
/ published during the year will be thai
| on irrigation in Utah, which is nov
ready for the press This report vii
include general discussion OF irrl-
| cation in Utah by William h
| Smythe of California, and reports or
Weber river, by ]. D. Stannard; OF
! Jordan river, by Ray P. Teele; OF
! Provo and American Fork rivers, bl
| Arthur p. slower; on Spanish Forl
! river, by State Engineer A. F. Dore-
mus: on Logan river, by George L
SWendSen, and on Virgin and SeVlel
rivers, by Frank Adams. This repor
| will present the extent and methods
Of irrigation and the water right SIT
uation on the streams considered, ant
will be a valuable aid to lawmakers o
Utah in framing d better irrigation
code than that state now has.
irrigation in Egypt" is the title
the report Assistant Chief Clarence L
Johnston has prepared on his studio
in Egypt last winter under special au
thority from the secretary of agri
culture. This report has been com
pleted and forwarded to the Washing
ton Office for publication. 1t will b
richly illustrated, comprehensive dis
cussion of irrigation in the countr
where irrigation had its rise. Report
on Egyptian irrigation have been is
sued from time to time, but none ma
considered in so much detail the agrl
| cultural and water right phases treat
ed by Professor Johnston. This repol
will therefore be a valuable addition
the already large amount of irrigatio
literature issued by the department {
agriculture.
While people are clamoring for
share of the benefits of the recent II
rigation act, many farmers are losin
sight of the value of reservoirs
private ownership as they are foun
a along the Cache, La Poudre and 81
n Thompson rivers in Colorado The dis
5 cussion of some OF these typical resel
, voirs was published in the last yea
q hook of the department of agricultur
: and further Investigations have bee
! | carried on by Assistant Clarence ]
TAFT, who will shortly prepare a bu
letin presenting the results Of
I study.