THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1905. 



No. 4 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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EDITORIAL 



The 



Colorado- 

 Kansas Suit 



The Colorado-Kansas water right suit 

 which recently came before Commissioner 

 Granville Eichardson has not proved such 

 a walk-away as those most heavily inter- 

 ested anticipated in favoring the Colorado 

 Fuel & Iron Company. We have before us a report of 

 this suit which contains the testimony of Prof. L. G. 

 Carpenter, State Engineer of Colorado. Portions of 

 this report will be published in a later issue of THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE. The fault with the Kansas end of 

 the fight seems to be lack of capital, while the Colorado 

 people find no difficulty in holding up their end in 

 that respect. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is glad to inform 

 Good its friends that the first month of 1905 



Prospects. shows a better increase in point of cir- 

 culation and business than any other 

 month in the history of the publication. Plans are now 

 being laid for the development of circulation and it is 

 hoped to build our circulation up to the 50,000 mark 

 before the end of this year. When we have once secured 

 50,000 subscribers, this publication will take rank with 

 the leading class journals of the world. The manufac- 

 turers of agricultural implements, pumping machinery 

 and irrigation tools and those who supply goods to pros- 



perous farmers throughout the country should bear in 

 mind that THE IRRIGATION AGE is the pioneer of its 

 class in the world, is the standard in its line and will 

 ever maintain its position as the leading and strongest 

 irrigation magazine in the world. 



Resolutions 



Wil 



Stand. 



In another column in this issue appears 

 an outline of the report of the Committee 

 on Arid Lands and Irrigation of the Na- 

 tional Association of Implement and Ve- 

 hicle Manufacturers, in which some strong 

 recommendations are offered. These recommendations 

 were made after due deliberation by the committee and 

 when same appeared in printed form and had reached 

 the hands of Government officials whom the carrying out 

 of these recommendations would affect, a great scurry- 

 ing around took place and an effort is now being made 

 to compel the committee to withdraw these recommenda- 

 tions, or so materially change them that they would 

 have no weight. The gentlemen who are at work with 

 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, 

 with a view to this end, may rest assured that the more 

 effort they make to secure a change in the resolutions, 

 the more thorough an investigation will result, and all 

 good friends of irrigation development throughout the 

 west feel satisfied that the more thorough the investi- 

 gation, the more surely will good come out of it, and 

 the resolutions as printed in the report will stand. It 

 is understood that George H. Maxwell is making every 

 effort through certain members of the association to 

 counteract the effect of this report and it may not be 



