THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XVIII. 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1903. 



No. 9. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



THE D. H. ANDERSON PUBLISHING CO., 



PUBLISHERS, 

 112 Dearborn Street, - - CHICAGO 



Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., as Second-Class Matter. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor. 



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A monthly illustrated ma^aiine recoenized throughout the world as 

 the exponent ot 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. 



fr> A rKr^rH'P>r<i I* may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the only publication 

 i0 ' in the world having an actual paid in advance circulation among individual 

 irrigators and large irrigation corporations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and has readers in all parts of the world. 

 The Irrigation Age is 18 years old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Copyright 1903 by D. H. Anderson. 



EDITORIAL 



The editor of The Irrigation Age visited Ogden, 

 Utah, recently and found the local committee engaged 

 in the details of an entertainment program that will 

 eclipse anything of the kind ever before offered a sim- 

 ilar gathering. 



The JJth National Irrigation Congress promises 

 to have an attendance of from one thousand to twelve 

 hundred accredited delegates, and a large number of 

 those in attendance will be accompanied by members 

 of their families. The number of strangers in the city 

 will easily reach three or more thousand. 



The August issue of The Irrigation Age will con- 

 tain a finely illustrated article setting forth the attrac- 

 tions of Ogden and Utah generally, and will also give 

 an outline of the entertainment program. 



Remember the date, September 15-18, J903. 



A California newspaper whose man has probably 

 been there, says : "Arizona is a region of striking indi- 

 viduality." We should say so, particularly in that part 

 of it where Eoosevelt's "George" is driving stakes. 



The Arizona Blade and the Florence Tribune thus 

 defines a possibly well known humanitarian : 



"George H. Maxwell, a gentleman who eats his 

 bread in the sweat of his jaw, is working a stupendous 

 bunko game on the National Irrigation Association, and 

 if successful, that success will, eventually, result in a 



repeal of the national irrigation law, a calamity the 

 people of the west in particular, and the people of the 

 United States generally, should strenuously endeavor to 

 avert." 



A Fair 

 Offer. 



We have on hand a few copies of "Land 

 Drainage for Profit," which was pre- 

 pared by scientific men and experts. For 

 ten cents in postage stamps we will for- 

 ward a copy postpaid. Or, every new subscriber send- 

 ing $1, will receive a copy free with one year's sub- 

 scription to THE AGE. For $1.50 we will send THE 

 AGE for one year, a copy of "Drainage for Profit," and 

 a copy of "The Primer of Irrigation," which is now in 

 course of preparation. 



Self preservation is the first law of nature. 

 Plain Logic. If you do not wake up and protect your 



homes and farms against land and water 

 grabbers, how do you expect the government to do so? 

 This is a people's government, and you are the people. 

 The plain logic of this is, that farmers and irrigators 

 have it in their power to put a stop to the frauds and 

 abuses that have crept into the application of the land 

 and irrigation laws. If they spend their energies in 

 lying down and complaining, they are like the man in a 

 ditch waiting for the Lord to help him out -the Lord 

 don't. Organize and fight for your rights with the 

 same force as those do who deprive you of them. Unite, 

 instead of trying to pull with a rope of sand. 



