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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



essary for the ordinary sustenance of a 

 family and a surplus to provide for mis- 

 fortune or old age. That this is true 

 has been proven many times in nearly 

 all parts of the irrigated west. In Utah, 

 at Greeley, Colo., at Garden City, Kan- 

 sas and elsewhere the results have been 

 extremely favorable to the small irri- 

 gated farm, intensively cultivated. It is 

 no longer an experiment but an actual 

 demonstration of fact that such results 

 have been, are being and can be obtained 

 by the use of ordinary judgment and 

 care and work. An independent living 

 awaits every family willing to seize the 

 opportunity. In future issues of THE 

 AGE will be presented detailed state- 

 ments of the actual production on farms 

 in the various portions of the western 

 states. Farmers are invited to send in 

 such statements giving the area of land 

 cultivated and the crops produced and 

 to the first person in each of the western 

 states and territories sending in such 

 statement I will give free any one book 

 selected from the list published in THE 

 AGE for January. 



A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. 



If the ground-work of high average 

 prosperity exists anywhere it exists in 

 Western America; a blank page awaiting 

 the giant hand-writing of human indus- 

 try; not blotted with the sufferings of 

 starving millions. Upon it will be en- 

 graved the achievements of a century of 

 greater progress than the world has seen. 

 It is waiting the electric touch which will 

 rouse it to life and activity. Will the 

 men of the west join in a concerted 



effort to hasten the coming of the dawn 

 of prosperity? The opportunity is at 

 hand for a movement of population, 

 every indication points to a revival of 

 immigration. The wage worker, the 

 business and the professional man alike 

 are determined to concentrate their ef- 

 forts upon an attempt to obtain a sus- 

 tenance which will be ample and at the 

 same time secure; to go where no threat 

 of tariff or currency manipulation will 

 snatch the bread from the mouths of the 

 children, and where they can live under 

 their own roof and be independent. A 

 broad highway for such a movement has 

 been built by the work of the Home- 

 seekers Association. Through the med- 

 ium of this association will pass thou- 

 sands of settlers seeking locations. 



HOW IT CAN BE UTILIZED. 



How best to attract and keep and care 

 for this movement of population should 

 be the thought of every friend of irri- 

 gation and the west. It can be done 

 intelligently and profitably. It can best 

 be done by means of industrial colonies. 

 These should be planned carefully and 

 wisely and placed only in the most favor- 

 able localities. Colonial life fosters 

 general prosperity and it is attractive. 

 The organization of these colonies has 

 already been started. It is gathering 

 headway rapidly. The ideas discussed 

 at the meetings of the Homeseekers As- 

 sociation have met with popular ap- 

 proval. It remains to give them practi- 

 cal expression by the inauguration of 

 the actual work of settlement and the 

 building of homes. 





A HAY FARM IN A COLORADO VAUvEY. 



