People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — Make a Study of Irrigation. [ARTICLE]

Make a Study of Irrigation.

Washington, March 27.—An expert-i ment of great interest to the western S'.aies -i-’.s been tried by the secretaries oi agriculture and the interior in forming a naiT.m.l board of irrigation experts to srudy the best methods of promoting irrigation and of developing the gr- :,t res mrces of the west. This beard, which consists of five members from each of the departments xbentioned, held its first meeting yesterday and elected as officers Prof. Mark Harrington of the weather bureau chairmen and Prof. F. H. Newell of the geological survey secretary.