THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1902. 



NO. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A montlTly illustrated magazine recognized 

 throughout the world as the exponent of Irriga- 

 tion and its kindred industries. It is the pioneer 

 journal ci'ii.s Uind in the world, and bag norival 

 in ha; n It advocates the mineral 



deve'<>|'""-iii and the industrial growth of the 

 West. 



D.H.ANDERSON, - - Editor. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 

 It may interest advertisers to ktiow 

 that the Irrigation Age is the only 

 publication in the world having an ac- 

 tual paid in advance circulation among 

 individual irrigators and large irriga- 

 tion corporations. It is read regu- 

 larly by all interested in this subject 

 and has readers in all parts of the 

 world. The Irrigation Age Is 17 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of 

 its class in the world. 



Cp to the .present moment 

 the licet, y 'uirar men seem to 

 have the upper hand in 'the Cuban contro- 

 versy, ifthey do not actitajly control th.e sitj- 

 uatiqn, 



The wisdom. of their course remains to 

 He' seen. 



In Congress. 



President Roosevelt has expressed, in. 

 no uncertain terms, his determination to 

 promote the interests of. not only the West, 

 bat the whole eountr-y, through >the perma- 

 nent establishment of a national system-of 

 irrigation. 



Thisoffieial'declaration was conspicuau* 

 as a radical departure from the beaten 

 track of former ailministvative,poli;cies.and 

 presaged a larger service and less restricted 

 activity, sectionally, than. -is recorded of 

 Roosevelt'.s predecessors. 



Something definite, of incalculabk 1 Valu 

 the vitalizing essence and energizing. in- 

 fluence of a latent empire w.as promised; 

 something, the whole nation mielit proudly 

 consider the master st;-ok of . statesman- 

 ship in an era of crowding commercialism 

 nd impatient industry. 



And now the. congressional mill is 

 clogge.d with contention. 



Not all -sugar beets are grown by irriga-. 

 tiorr, but it -is safe lo say the greater por- 

 tion and betrer qiialit'< T of tlie Annirican 

 product depiMids upou.a.n' artificial water 

 supply, .besides, the western so.il. and eli 7 

 mate, peculiarly adainod 'to-sugar-ljeet enl-' 

 tun 1 , have. fuUr-" i aver*' 



and manufacturers not found elsewhere, 

 thus .fixing the. home a,n<] act! ve .field of tlii(i. 

 iaiportivit i:i.ljjst!'y in the novr arid West. 



HfnCf'v' if -beet- sugar seeks- r aiv imme- 

 diate political fate 'it may be well for the 

 urignatfts control] i ng the A me.rican pnid net 

 to carefully couside,i\.gr.eater -.pro^pec-tixe. 

 advantages before jirsss-ing -o'tai ins -ofi. tem- 

 porary 'value' calculated: to prejudice thV 



