Show RUSS HERE TO STUDY CANAlS Irrigation Engineer Visits the United States to Investigate Investigate Investigate gate Farming I Russia Ru sfa Is looking to the United States for pointers on practical irrigation ac as according according cording to E of St Peters Petersburg Petersburg Petersburg burg an engineer in the tIM em employ employ employ ploy of the Russian government who ar arrived arrived arrived rived in Salt Lake yesterday esterday on a trip which is taking him to every state In tho the west sest est Mr has been con connected connected connected with irrigation engineering in Rue Rus Russia sill ala for more than twenty years having been chief engineer for a province in southern Russia in charge of irrigation work for about fifteen years and later connected with the government engineer engineering ing department at St Petersburg until commissioned d last January to spend a year in the United States investigating irrigation methods We have hae large areas In southern Rus Bus Russia Russia sia ala where Irrigation in a simple way has been applied for hundreds of years said Mr Ir at the Kenyon Kenon last night Our irrigation however has been I making little progress compared to that in the United States and the Russian I government is now looking to this move movement movement movement ment to assist in solving one of our great greatest greatest est eat problems that of relieving the con colt congestion congestion in population among the lower classes In some districts We e have a vast desert territory in southern which is most fertile and will produce cotton and grain In abundance If water is fur furnished furnished Mr arrived in the United States last February and has been through Colorado Wyoming Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon From Salt Lake he will go TO o 0 Denver and then to Ari An Arizona Arizona Anzona zona New Mexico and California where I he will spend the winter Today Toda he will visit the state engineer and during his I stay In Utah he wilt will visit the Strawberry project and se ral other projects In Utah he is especially interested in the private and community irrigation systems systems systems which are practically unknown In Russia I S |