THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1904. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 



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EDITOR.I AL 



Wiih this issue THE IRRIGATION AGE starts 

 Twenty in on ' ts twentietn year, this being No. 1 , Vol. 

 XX. The publishers are glad to inform all 

 Years of our readers and friends that the IRRIGA- 



TION AGE enters the twentieth year of Its 

 existence with better prospects than ever before in its his- 

 tory. A liberal support has been given the publication 

 during the past four years, under the present ownership, 

 for which we heartily thank our advertisers and subscrib- 

 ers as well. We can promise our advertisers to do much 

 better for them in the future in the way of returns and 

 circulation than in the past, as plans are being formed 

 which will materially increase, possibly double, the pres- 

 ent circulation. 



THE AGE found it necessary during the past several 

 years to devote considerable space to the exposure of in- 

 dividuals who are using the irrigation movement to fur- 

 ther their own end. It has as a consequence made some 

 enemies among those whom it has most vigorously at- 

 tacked, but the majority of our readers are with us in this 

 fight, particularly those who are actual irrigators and 

 home-seekers. This is the class of people whose battle 

 THE AGE will ever wage. 



Organized labor, George H. Maxwell and 

 Popluar the Los Angeles Times. Maxwell stands 



Where Least between the other two. They are pull- 

 Known, ing in opposite directions. Can he ad- 

 here to both and stand the strain? Can 

 he continue to publish his Talisman, a paper designed 



to enlist the support of union labor for his irrigation 

 Tammany, and at the same time continue to send his 

 boiler-plate editorials to the Los Angeles Times, as 

 he has for years past, and to throw gorgeous bouquets 

 at himself through the columns of that paper? It 

 seems that the labor organizations, which in the past 

 have been willing for him to formulate resolutions for 

 them on questions of public' policy and have permitted 

 him to levy tribute on their membership, would now 

 be moved to inquire into the nature of his affiliations 

 where he has spent the most of his life. Such an in- 

 quiry might discover some of the reasons for the fact 

 that he is most popular where he is least known. 



$500 Profit 

 Per Acre. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE recently received a 

 box of fine large onions, of the Spanish 

 variety, which were grown in the Mesilla 

 Valley at the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Mesilla Park, N. M., by the aid of well water, 

 or by irrigation by pumping. The yield of these onions 

 per acre, without the application of fertilizers, was 

 31,250 pounds; the cost of irrigation per acre, $15; 

 gross receipts, at 2% cents per pound, for the crop 

 were $703.12%, and the net receipts per acre $500. 



It will be seen from this that pump irrigation is 

 a profitable industry in the Rio Grande Valley in New 

 Mexico and is proving profitable wherever tried in 

 the Southwestern country. If a profit of $500 per 

 acre can be earned where it is necessary to pump water, 

 as is done at the experiment station at Mesilla Park, 



