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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



reclamation, which a few years ago could have been pur- 

 chased for fifty cents an acre, and is now offered at 

 from one to five dollars per acre, which, with proper 

 drainage, would readily bring from sixty to one hundred 

 dollars per acre. It is our intention to devote consider- 

 able space in future issues to this subject as associated 

 with Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Minne- 

 sota, as well as many of the southern States. Readers 

 who are acquainted with similar conditions in their re- 

 spective localities are requested to write us, giving full 

 information. The land mentioned in the article is lo- 

 cated along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul Railway. 



Modern THE IRRIGATION AGE is glad to note 



Irrigation. that the publication which succeeds The 



Irrigation Era, now known as Modern Irrigation, pub- 

 lished at Denver, Cobrado, shows healthy signs, and we 

 earnestly wish it all the good that is the due of a cleanly 

 conducted publication. Modern Irrigation is published 

 by Mr. George W. Wagner, and the editorial department 

 is in charge of Mr. M. C. Jackson. 



It is gratifying to note that this journal takes a 

 flat-footed stand in support of the National Irrigation 

 Congress, and elsewhere in this issue we quote its pleas- 

 ant comments on Senator J. M. Carey, of Wyoming, 

 and his work for the continuance and separate existence 

 of the National Irrigation Congress. 



Running the Judging from printed matter recently 

 Government, issued by Geo. H. Maxwell concerning 

 what he intends to do in the Salt River 

 Valley, Arizona, and a printed slip signed Guy E. 

 Mitchell on the Quarles repeal bill, one would assume 

 that these gentlemen are shaping the affairs of the In- 

 terior Department, if not, in fact, running the govern- 

 ment. In fairness to the President, Secretary of the 

 Interior and Senator Quarles, these gentlemen should 

 be "called off." But no; a meeting of the National 

 Irrigation Association attended by the two alone would 

 hardly call a halt on themselves. 



Correspond- The publishers of THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 ence. are particularly anxious to publish reg- 



iilarly correspondence from its readers, whether it be in 

 the form of inquiries or experiences along the line of 

 irrigation and drainage study, and for this reason we 

 invite all of our readers to send in inquiries for informa- 

 tion, and write us their experiences of both successe.s and 

 failures, so that our readers may profit by avoiding 

 mistakes made by others, as well as through the adop- 

 tion of successful methods in actual irrigation experi- 

 ence.: 



Our readers are urgently requested to send in occa- 

 sional letters which will prove of value and interest to 

 others. 



IRRIGATING PUMPING PLANT. 



A. W. CLAPP, C. E 



The subject of electric pumping for the purpose of 

 irrigation is one of growing interest in the State of 

 Utah. With the completion of the largest pumping 

 plant in the United States, now under course of con- 

 struction on the shore of Utah lake at the head of Jor- 

 dan river, will in part have solved one of the most per- 

 plexing questions in irrigation that the several canal 

 companies in and around Salt Lake City have had to> 

 contend with for some time. 



Utah lake, the largest body of fresh water in the 

 State, covering an area of about 93,000 acres, is located 

 near the center of the State, about thirty miles south of 



HON. ANGUS M. CANNON. 

 Salt Lake City (Father Utah Lake Project). 



the capital city, its principal source of supply being the 

 streams flowing from Provo, American Fork and Span- 

 ish Fork canyons, together with several smaller streams 

 which flow into it during the spring months. Its only 

 outlet is the Jordan river, which takes its course from 

 the north end of the lake and flows in a northerly di- 

 rection through Salt Lake City and empties its waters 

 into the Great Salt Lake, the fall of the river for the 

 first ten miles being 2.5' per mile, while in the' next 

 two miles it has a fall of 72' per mile. 



The waters flowing from the lake during the 

 months of June, July and August, irrigation months, 

 are used for irrigation purposes by the farmers of Salt 

 Lake valley. These waters are controlled and distrib- 



