THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1905. 



NO. 8 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



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We will present in our issue for June an 

 Current elaborate article on current wheels and 



Wheels. their use in lifting water for irrigation. 



This article is prepared from data secured 

 from official records, and will be embellished with a 

 fine lot of illustrations, twenty-six in all, among them 

 being a number of outline drawings which will be of 

 great value to those contemplating the construction 

 of an outfit for raising water. The drawings are sim- 

 ple and the accompanying matter so comprehensive 

 as to be valuable to all. 



Watch 



for 



Bulletins. 



If the officials of the Eeclamation Service 

 who will have charge of the party of 

 Senators and Congressmen that will start 

 on a tour of inspection of the various 

 Government irrigation projects June 1st 

 have their way, we may expect to see some elaborate 

 illustrated articles in the metropolitan press. It has 

 been noted that "Dr." Newell has used Guy Mitchell 

 as his mouthpiece to the press, and as Mr. Mitchell 

 is one of George Maxwell's assistants, it may be 

 readily imagined that the Tonto or Roosevelt dam in 

 Arizona and the Nevada project will be duly "boosted." 

 By the way, why did not Newell call the Nevada dam 

 "The Newlands," after the genial Senator for that 

 State, whom, we are . informed, is considerably inter- 

 ested in this project? 



Perhaps this was contemplated, and the Senator, 

 hearing of it, "nipped it in the bud," fearing that 

 perhaps that would be going too far. 



Twenty-five years ago thousands of farm- 

 Revival ers settled in Western Kansas, attracted 

 in by the fact that for two or three years the 



Western rainfall had been sufficient to grow crops. 

 Kansas. They were ruined by successive droughts, 



for they discovered that a good crop year 

 came only once in four or five seasons. They pulled up 

 stakes and went back East. 



These farmers little dreamed that there was an 

 unlimited quantity of water within easy reach, which 

 could be lifted by windmills into irrigation ditches. 

 A few years ago our Geological Survey discovered that 

 a large part of the high plain of western Kansas is 

 underlaid with an abundance of water of the purest 

 description. It is from one hundred to two hundred 

 feet below the surface. It is believed that it may come 

 all the way from the Rocky Mountains along the im- 

 permeable cretaceous rocks that keep it up within reach 

 and seem to slope ever eastward in that region. We 

 know that the Arkansas draws the water in its channel 

 from those same mountains. At any rate, the new farm- 

 ers in the extreme western counties feel the stimulus 

 of enthusiasm and confidence and believe they are go- 

 ing to keep Kansas in the van of the wheat States, a 

 proud position she has occupied several times of late 

 years. 



Irrigation has of late made great progress in the 

 heretofore arid countries in the northwestern portion 

 of the State. Here settlers have been flocking with 

 money to buy land, and real estate is having a boom. 

 Tracts of 160 acres that went begging at $100 a few 

 years ago are now selling at $1,600. Many little reser- 



