Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-03

irrigating the land lodged and re-
manned stagnant in several draws
here and there in the area. To rid
this part Of the land, which was
otherwise most valuable, of this seep-
age water was the question.
"The idea of accomplishing this
was not original except as it applied
to the United States. Babylon and
Syria had practiced irrigation by this
means in past ages. With this fact,
however, as an argument that such
methods should be followed in this
country, urged the land owners of
the project to join me in establishing
drainage bitches. 1t was planlyi I'M
just that one man should establish
them all.
after some years the idea of per-
suading the state legislature to pass
district drainage act was taken up.
1t met with ultimate success and now
all irrigation plants may properly
avail themselves of this valuable
principle along just lines. Tb2 act
mentioned became a law in Texas in
January of 1909.
1.-THE land owners under the irriga-
ton system at Barstow had by that
time become so CONVINCED of the value
of drainage that they at once occu-
pied themselves in taking further ad-
vantage of the legislative act, and in
stalled at large cost complete drain
age system. This has been of untold
value to the project as a whole. Sim.
liar action in other states will GER
tainly bring about greatly beneficial
results for irrigation farmers and
leading irrigationists over the coun-
try often have expressed themselves
as of the belief that every irrigation
state should have drainage act like
that given to Texas"
CHICAGO, Aug. 81 am greatly
interested in the work of the Nation
al Irrigation Congress meeting in
Chicago from December 5. to this
year, and in the whole question Of
land reclamation, whether by irriga-
ton, by drainage otr otherwise says
l.. H. Bailey, director of the New
York State College of Agriculture,
Ithica, N. Y. AT the irrigation con-
gress meeting in Spokane, Wash, l
outlined my views in regard to these
questions and through that gather
ing l learned much from others re-
garding the economic Importance Of
reclamation, gathering such fund
of information that l was enabled to
prepare considerable material in book
form. Without doubt the gathering
at Chicago in December will be Of
equal value to me, and l am sure, to
the nation as whole
CHICAGO, Aug. 81. Perpolla, Sec
rotary of foreig nafairs for Ecuador,
has notified DR.. E. Mcqueen Gray, for
eign secretary of the National Irriga-
ton Congress, to hold its nineteenth
annual sessions here December to
9, that the Ecuadorian government
will be represented at the Chicago
gathering by official delegates. Copies
of the official proceedings Of the
eighteenth congress were forwarded
to Secretary Perolla, and to like Of
ficials in all foreign nations. Many
of these nations have been repre-
scented at past congresses and the re.
plies being received. at the Chicago
headquarters from invitations ex.
tended to foreign delegations indi-
cate that practically all of them will
take part in the feeting here this
fall.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-Nikola Kau-
MAINS, Imperial German Special Com
missioner for Agriculture to the
United tSates, whose Office in Chica-
90 will be one of the interested par
Elephants in the deliberations Of the
Nineteenth National Irrigation Con.
gress, to have its annual sessions here
December to g. In a recent letter
to the congress headquarters the
commissioner says:
Having just returned to Chicago
from Germany, I am only now in re-
ceipt Of knowledge that the National
Irrigation Congress is to have its ses-
sions here this year. am very much
in sympathy with the work done BY
this organization to develop agricul-
ture< in the United States by means
of irrigation. My interest in this
work In the past indicates that shall