THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1905. 



No. 3 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 



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EDITORIAL 



We are publishing in this issue an article 

 Current on Current Wheels by E. A. Farnum, a 



Wheels. student in the Iowa State College, which 



is illustrated by drawings furnished us by 

 Mr. Farnum. His article will prove interesting to all 

 those who have been studying the matter of utilizing 

 the current of streams for the purpose of lifting water 

 for irrigation. 



We are presenting in this issue four half- 

 New tones illustrative of the development 

 Plymouth along irrigation lines under the system 

 Colony. of the New Plymouth Land & Coloniza- 

 tion Company, Limited, Payette, Idaho. 

 This company has done good work in lifting barren 

 lands into a state of fine cultivation and much of the 

 good work accomplished by this company is due to the 

 active member of the concern, Mr. C. E. Brainard. 



We are presenting in this issue a half- 

 Price tone portrait of Mr. J. W. Price, of Mina 

 of Grove ranch, Casper, Wyo. Mr. Price is 

 Wyoming. an active irrigationist in that hustling 



State and is the man who first exposed 

 the intrigue of the combination which contemplated 

 killing the irrigation congress by merging it with the 

 trans-Mississippi congress. He has followed closely 



the fight in favor of clean irrigation development in the 

 West and has at different times rendered valuable aid. 

 He also fought against the repeal of the land laws at 

 the Ogden congress. In a recent communication from 

 Mr. Price he states: "It is my opinion that the reso- 

 lutions adopted at the Twelfth National Irrigation 

 Congress at El Paso did not injure the cause of irriga- 

 tion development in the arid States, as the method taken 

 to obtain these resolutions was only too clear to every 

 thinking Western man, as well as to the Government 

 officials, so much so that they are looked upon with 

 great suspicion." Mr. Price also states that an effort 

 was made to kill the goose that lays the golden egg and 

 the resolutions could not have been passed excepting 

 in a State, a long distance from the center of irrigation 

 activity, a State to whose lands the National Irrigation 

 Act does not apply. 



Mr. Paul 

 Thieman 

 Talks. 



Mr. Paul Thieman, whoever he may be, 

 says something in a recent issue of a 

 Denver paper which is pat and to the 

 point. We herewith reproduce the first 

 few paragraphs of his article: 

 When one beholds the complacent failure to com- 

 prehend the nature and condition of far Western ir- 

 rigation, it is maddening. I have seen one man, who 

 is thoroughly posted, almost break into wild tears of 

 rage over the ever recurring evidences that the people 

 at large, the people right here, the National Govern- 

 ment, the S'tate Governments, do not appreciate Na- 

 tional irrigation, and that the public information and 



