THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XVIII. 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1903. 



No. 6. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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A monthly illustrated magazine recognized throughout the world as 

 the exponent of Irragation 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. 



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

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Copyright 1908 by D. H. Anderson. 



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Irrigation 

 Convention. 



Bead article in this issue on Influences 

 in the National Irrigation Program. 



Our May issue will contain a complete 

 report of the Irrigation Convention to 

 be held at Garden City, Kansas, April 

 16-17. 



In our May issue will appear an article 

 on Artificial Glaciers, which will de- 

 scribe a California scheme coincident 

 with a similar suggestion for Colorado. 

 While the idea is not entirely new, it will be interesting. 



Artificial 

 Glaciers. 



Senator Carey In our issue for May will appear an 

 on article on the land question in con- 



Land Question, nection with irrigation, from the pen 

 > of Senator Joseph M. Carey, Chey- 

 enne, Wyoming. Senator Carey is fully qualified to 

 handle this subject, and his opinions will be found 

 highly interesting. 



Will our readers in the various sec- 

 tions of the West send us a short com- 

 munication giving their manner of cul- 

 tivating before and after irrigating; 

 depth of plowing, kind of soil and quantity per acre of 



A Request. 



principal crops? It is our intention to collate this in- 

 formation and add suggestions which may be of practi- 

 cal value in the way of improvements. Any assistance 

 of this character from our readers will be heartily ap- 

 preciated. 



Keep in mind the llth National Irri- 

 gation Congress at Ogden, Utah, Sep- 

 tember 8 to 11. Eecent letters from 

 that city state that an elaborate pro- 

 gram is being prepared and many interesting features 

 in the way of entertainment will be offered. 



Irrigation 

 Congress. 



Administration Our May issue will contain ai finely il- 

 of Streams lustrated article from the Journal of 

 in Irrigation. the Western Society of Engineers on 

 "The Administration of Streams in 

 Irrigation." The data for the article is from a paper 

 read before that society by Elwood Mead, Chief of Irri- 

 gation Investigations, Washington, D. C. 





The Primer of Irrigation, the first 

 chapter of which appears in this issue 

 ' of THE IRRIGATION AGE. will, in its 

 completed form, make a volume of over 

 300 pages bound in cloth and finely illustrated. The 

 price will be $1.00. Those who wish to order the book 

 may secure it and THE IRRIGATION AGE for one year 

 for $1.50. We will not have it ready for delivery be- 

 fore August or September of this year. 



