Show THE MOTHER OF irrigation T the two leading articles in the current issue tf the age art am the th irrigation Cong reea at v los aagenes Ao Aa geles its ite plans plana aud and P 1 with earnest and opportune be on abe importance of this thie gatti fring and aad the Lecea Btty for alj ail he abe of the wet west being p properly copet ro pet and the ex biblis of irrigated products at alie ue woolda fait efte NEWS bbb ban had considerable from the I 1 n and has biu thought that pint of ibcal lo terest bd la 1 but we do not remember to have seen been anything so ao Patis satisfactory factory as the following w which bich makes martof part of the abea last named article the fame of utah as the pioneer in american irrigation and honie home of one ot of the most thrifty industrial peoples in the world had prepared the public for an interesting exhibit and there here was no disappointment 1 among the inter ng things which prof J W sanborn who ho had charge ot the collection of exhibit has provided are two pictures of great historical interest to the students of irrigation one of these represents the most primitive type of irrigation by the indians indiana and the oher portrays the diversion of the waters of city creek upon the desert in inthe the valley ot the great salt lake where the mormons cormons began their first experiment peri e r ment in colonization in the far west the he work was done under ander the eye of brigham young and his successor huc cessor in the presidency ot the mormon church wilford woodruff when one contemplates the vast development resulting from that daring experiment at the founding of a colony on an arid and and arkili waste one stands with awe before this unpretentious palming painting professor sanborn is in also to be commended for his bis good sense in providing a large number of character characteristic itic photographs of utah scenes they tell much more to the average mind than the most carefully prepared exhibit of cereals especially as in every ina instance ance the cultivated field and lis its busy workers are shown against a back ground of everlasting glorified mountains no one who loves this most beautiful of all lands under the wide arch of western sky can study these beautiful photographs without a distinct pang of homesickness another feature which distinguishes the utah exhibit from its neighbors is ia a 9 relief map showing the irrigation of a typical valley in the territory it is the malad valley watered by the bear river irrigation company the diversion of the stream into canals on either side aide is il lustra ed and the practical irrigation of a field ot alfalfa and ot wheat is shown ridge irrigation the irrigation of a garden by b an anesian arie methot well and the utah method of irrigating orchards are also made plain olain the T e utah system of conducting water through village streets is another interesting feature t of the relief map there is a very cc complete InD lete exhibit of grains and graimes grases and the various other products product of prolific farms the only occasion for keen regret to is the absence of the complete exhibit of the delicious fruits which utah produces in such variety and abundance |