THAYER SCHOOL ENGINEER REPORTS TO GEN. ALLENBY IN THE SUDAN

H. N. Savage, T.S.C.E., 1890, who recently went around the world on a tour of inspection of the greater irrigation works in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Australia, New Zealand, etc.—having credentials from the State Department which insured the guidance of leading officials and the use of official transportation facilities,—more recently returned to Egypt where he has been studying the great problem of the control of the Nile for the irrigation of the Sudan.

In a letter to Professor Fletcher, dated January 30 at Mongalla in the Sudan he writes of a visit to the great Makwa dam, more than two miles long, now nearly completed across the Blue Nile. At a luncheon with the Sirdar (Viscount) Allenby he was asked to make an oral report concerning his observations in the region of the Sudan traversed by the White Nile which has Victoria Ns'anza for its principal source. Not long ago plans were made for a dam more than three miles long to create on that branch a huge storage reservoir in that immensely extensive. flat country. The problem involves not only physical and hydraulic conditions of transcending but political considerations of great consequence to the British Empire.

The attention of Sir William Willcocks, director-general of irrigation projects in Mesopotamia, was directed to the work of* Mr. Savage in Southern California where he was in charge of the development of extensive irrigation works, and, as hydraulic engineer for the city of San Diego, built two noteworthy masonry dams and made an exhaustive report on all possible water resources for the city, in that semi-arid region. During eleven years from 1904-1915, Mr. Savage was consulting and supervising engineer in the U. S. Reclamation Service, in charge of eleven projects in five northwestern states, on which above twentymillion dollars were expended under his management.