THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1902. 



NO. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A monthly illustrated magazine recognized 

 throughout the world as the exponent of Irriga- 

 tion and its kindred industries. It is the pioneer 

 journal of its kind in the world, and has no rival 

 in half a continent. It advocates the mineral 

 development and the industrial growth of the 

 West. 



D. H. ANDERSON, - - Editor. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 

 It may ittterest advertisers to know 

 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. 



Fatally Injured. 



We regret to announce that 

 Geo. P. Bemis, whose arti- 

 cle entitled ''Points on Irrigation" ap- 

 peared in our last issue, was fatally injured 

 in the heavy wind storm which visited 



Omaha, Neb., April 25. Mr. Bemis was 

 twice mayor of Omaha, and has been 

 closely identified with public affairs. 



The Irriga- The passage of the irrigation 

 tion Bill. bil]) now before Congress, 

 seems well assured. The bill provides for 

 the construction of irrigation works for 

 the rclamation of arid lands "so that 

 they may be made homes and permanent 

 abiding places for the settler and his 

 family." The strongest opposition to the 

 passage of this measure has been from the 

 Eastern farmer, who argued that the gov- 

 ernment construction of reservoirs in the 

 arid regions would subject him to taxa- 

 tion in the interest of competitors in his 

 own line. This very human reasoning is 

 also very narrow and selfish. Laws_should 

 be made looking to the ultimate welfare 

 and prosperity of the whole nation, not to 

 the aggrandizement of one section; and 

 not alone the present welfare but toward 

 the future prosperity as well- To use a 

 much over-worked expression, it should 

 provide for ''the greatest good to the 

 greatest number." The following words 

 of Mr. Pomeroy, senator from Kansas, in 

 speaking of the homestead law are parti- 

 cularly applicable: "And here let it be 

 observed that the wealth of a nation does 

 not consist in the money paid into its 

 treasury, exacted, as it often is, from 

 half-paid toiling millions, nor in an end- 

 less unoccupied public domain, running 



to waste with wild men and wild buffalos. 



* * * * The wealth, the strength, the 



