THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1905. 



No. 7 



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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A monthly illustrated magazine recognized throughout the world an 

 the exponent of Irrigation 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. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and has 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 20 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



The President has at last appointed a 

 Reclamation competent head for the Eeclamation Bu- 

 Bureau. reau in the person of Mr. C. E. Grunsky, 



late of the Panama Canal Commission. 

 The friends of irrigation everywhere will welcome a 

 change which permits the possibility of clearly and 

 expeditiously carrying out the provisions of the law. 

 One particularly good feature of this appointment is 

 that the many interests in the West in control of pri- 

 vate irrigation enterprises will be recognized and all 

 grievances may be readily brought to the attention of 

 the Department of the Interior with no likelihood of 

 being sidetracked, as has been the case under the mis- 

 management of F. H. Newell and his band of followers. 

 All reports concerning Mr. Grunsky are favorable 

 and lead us to believe that an earnest and consequently 

 successful effort will be made to carry out the provi- 

 sions of the Reclamation Act. Recent information from 

 Washington informs us that Mr. Grunsky will act as 

 advisor to the head of the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



The publishers of THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 Large have started a circulation crusade which 



Circulation will, unless all signs fail, increase our 

 Increase. paid list of subscribers 50,000 or more. 



Returns from the first four weeks' work 

 along this line show an average daily increase in paid 

 subscriptions of over 100, and on several days during 

 that period the addition to the list has exceeded 300 

 new names of people directly interested in irrigation 

 farming and kindred lines. Does this not appeal to 

 the men who have goods to sell to this class of readers? 



Many of these subscribers are new to the arid West 

 and have gone out to that country ready to establish 

 themselves as irrigation farmers. They have, more- 

 over, in many cases been recruited from the farms in 

 the central and eastern States; many of them sold out 

 their holdings before moving West and are in the 

 market now for re-equipment in all the lines neces- 

 sary to establish new homes. Among the many neces- 

 sities in establishing a new farm home in the West may 

 be mentioned all kinds of agricultural implements, wind 

 mills, pumps, creamery supplies and household goods 

 of all kinds. 



If you are a manufacturer and looking for a good 

 market patronize the advertising columns of THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE. 



We are pleased to inform our readers that 

 Official our old time correspondent, Uncle Silas, 



"Sunbursts." is again in the harness and is writing for 

 the columns of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 

 Elsewhere in this issue will be found an article from 

 his pen on the Reclamation Service in Idaho, which 

 will prove interesting to those who have followed the 

 articles in our former numbers concerning the methods 

 of the Reclamation Service. 



In order that all may understand more about the 

 methods of Washington officials who are "playing to 

 the galleries" throughout the West, we quote below 

 a paragraph in which Uncle Silas clearly illustrates 

 some of their methods : 



"The following incident will serve to illustrate not 

 only the methods of the Reclamation Service but some 

 of the personal characteristics of some of its officials. 



