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Show J SPIRIT OF. THE PRESS. Irrigation ia California. San Francisco Chronicle. The appointment of a consulting engineer en-gineer and an attorney will tend to systematize sys-tematize the scheme of irrigation in California and to aid it materially. Cflicers will have almost the rank and standing of state officials. They will necessarily be impartial and unprejudiced, unpreju-diced, and while their labors will not debar intending invesiora from making independent resear tes and investigations investiga-tions their reports will have a certain prestige which wH come to have almost al-most the force and effect of a judicial decision. |