THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1902. 



NO. 7 



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. 



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It may interest 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. 



Interesting 

 Matter. 



In this issue begins the first 

 of a series of articles on Irri- 

 gation and Soil Culture, byH. W.Camp- 

 bell, whose portrait we had the pleasure 

 of presenting to our readers in our last 



number of the AGE. Rodney H. Yale, 

 whose portrait forms our frontispiece this 

 time, begins in this number the first of a 

 series on Practical Pump Irrigation. 



Work to Begin 

 at Once. 



The government will at 

 once begin work in the in- 

 vestigation of sites for irrigation reservoirs 

 to be constructed under the provisions of 

 the irrigation bill recently passed. There 

 is about $5,000,000 available at once for 

 the reclamation fund, the distribution of 

 which is entirely in the hands of the sec- 

 retary of the interior, who has discretion- 

 ary power in the selection of localities 

 where government irrigation works shall 

 be established. 



F. H. Newell, chief of the hydrographic 

 department at Washington, will look over 

 the much-talked-of site of the gigantic 

 reservoir in the South Platte valley in 

 western Nebraska apd northern Colorado. 

 This mammoth pool, when constructed, 

 will store 12,000,000,000 cubic feet of 

 water, a quantity sufficient to irrigate 

 250,000 acres of government land. 



Thirteen states and three territories are 

 entitled to share in the benefits conferred 

 by the law Arizona, California, Colorado, 

 Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ne- 

 vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla- 

 homa, Arizona, South Dakota, Utah, 

 Washington and Wyoming. This region 

 contains about 600,000,000 acres of the 

 public domain, at least 60,000,000 acres 

 of which, it is believed, can be converted 

 into farms if the water supply be scienti- 



