THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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wherever water can be had and distributed at reason- 

 able cost. Especially i is this true of the Southern 

 States with their long, .Iwk summers. In Italy $6,000,- 

 000 has been spent on one canal system to water a 

 country where the unirrigated fields 'are as green and 

 luxuriant today as the prairies of Iowa and Illinois, 

 but they are not nearly so opulent in vegetation as 

 the irrigated fields near by. The crops grown are corn, 

 wheat,- hay and mulberry leaves, all except the last 

 product of our Middle State farms. It pays. The irri- 

 gated farm is far more valuable than the unirrigated 

 one. 



I shall come home believing as fully as when I left 

 in the rapid development of the great possibilities of 

 the West through private enterprise and through na- 

 tional aid, in the need and value of the investigations 

 of the United States Geological Survey, the Office of 

 Experiment Stations of the Agricultural Department, 

 and the experiment stations of the several states, and 

 with a renewed respect for the. work of the state irri- 

 gation bureau, the significance and value of which will 

 be far more apparent fifty years hence. Utah, like 

 Venice and Panama, owes everything to water, and is 

 fortunate in having an excellent code of laws and a 

 painstaking and capable administrator. 

 Sincerely yours, 



ELWOOD MEAD. 



Farming in Colorado, Utah and 

 New Mexico. 



The farmer who contemplates changing his loca- 

 tion should look well into the subject of irrigation. 

 Before making a trip of investigation there is no 

 better way to secure advance information than by 

 writing to those most interested in the settlement of 

 unoccupied lands. Several publications, giving val- 

 uable information in regard to the agricultural, hor- 

 ticultural and live stock interests of this great west- 

 ern section have been prepared by the Denver & 

 Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western, which 

 should be in the hands of all who desire to become 

 acquainted with the merits of the various localities. 

 Write S. K. Hooper, G. P. & T. A., Denver, Colo. 



One dollar and fifty cents will secure for you one year's subscrip- 

 tion to Till: IRRIGATION AQB and a finely bound volume of the 

 Primer of Irrigation which will be sent postpaid in a few months, 

 when volume Is completed. The Primer of Irrigation will be finely 

 Illustrated and will contain about 300 pages. 5end post office or 

 express money order for $1.50 and secure copy of first edition. 



PROPOSALS FOR DREDGING, ETC. 



CEALED PROPOSALS FOR THE DREDGING 

 >J and other work to be in the construction of the 

 ditches for the Blue Joint Special Drainage District in 

 Henry County, Illinois, will be received by the under- 

 signed until twelve o'clock, noon, of Saturday, October 

 3d, 1903. Plans and specifications of the work may be 

 had from either the undersigned or Henry Waterman in 

 Geneso, Illinois. Each bid must be accompanied by a 

 certified check or draft for One Hundred Dollars, and 

 may be left with the Commissioners or Henry Water- 

 man. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. 



BYRON BEERS, ) Commissioners of the Blue Joint 

 CHARLES SAND, [-Special Drainaee District of 

 ) Henry County, I 



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