THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XX 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1905. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



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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 IRRIGATION AGE has made arrange- 

 Articles for ments with over forty leading agricultural 

 Homeseekers. publications throughout the country 

 whereby these journals will be furnished 

 regularly with information concerning development 

 along irrigation lines. In this series of articles, which 

 will be published during the following twelve months, 

 a fairly complete history of the development of the 

 irrigation industry in the United States will be given. 

 It will be our aim to so prepare this matter as to give 

 people who are looking to the West for homes a clear 

 insight to the possibilities of agriculture under irriga- 

 tion and furnish information covering all conceivable 

 questions that would be likely to come to the mind of 

 one who intends moving from the central or eastern 

 States to what is known as the Arid West. 



The series of articles will appear in the columns of 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE as well, and in our issue of July 

 the first article was presented which, although general 

 in its character, furnished information leading up to 

 detail of development. In this issue is given a short 

 illustrated article on the far famed Sunnyside district 

 in Washington, known as the model large irrigation 

 project of the United States under private control. 

 The Sunnyside enterprise has been brought to its pres- 

 ent state of perfection for its owners by Mr. Walter 

 N. Granger, who has had much to do with good irriga- 

 tion work throughout the West. 



A representative of this journal will leave Chicago 

 early in August for a month's trip through Montana, 

 Washington, Idaho and Oregon and will collect data 

 which will form the groundwork of the articles men- 



tioned. Much of the matter contained in articles dur- 

 ing the next six months will treat of conditions existing 

 along the line of the Northern Pacific Bailway in the 

 States named. Later on the articles will cover infor- 

 mation along the lines of other railways in Nebraska, 

 Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. 



If yourself or friends are contemplating moving 

 to the West, THE IRRIGATION AGE will gladly furnish 

 any information in its possession or refer you to men 

 who are in a position to furnish details concerning any 

 particular locality or enterprise. 



The question whether another Irrigation 

 Irrigation Congress would ever be held after the 

 Congress. abortive session at El Paso, Texas, last 

 year, is solved in the affirmative. The 

 thirteenth National Irrigation Congress is called to 

 meet in Portland, Oregon, August 21st to 24th, in- 

 clusive, says the Salt Lake Tribune. 



The composition of the congress will be as here- 

 tofore, the official members as usual, and the appointive 

 delegates on the old basis, as shown in the call- fifteen 

 delegates by each governor, ten by mayors of cities over 

 25,000, five by mayors of cities of less, two by the county 

 governments, two by each commercial body, irrigation, 

 agricultural or horticultural society, agricultural col- 

 lege or university. 



It is to be hoped that when delegates are sent, 

 they will be men of ability and firmness, who will stand 

 for irrigation interests on practical lines. Last year 

 the proposition carried to have the irrigation fund ex- 

 tended to the benefit of Texas, which has no United 



