THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1908. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age it 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 DM 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 24 yean 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



This, our November issue, marks the be- 

 Twenty- ginning of the twenty-fourth year of the 



fourth Year, existence of THE IRRIGATION AGE, hence 

 - a new volume, that of twenty-four, is be- 

 ginning, and our title page will show Volume Twenty- 

 four, Number One. 



The year ending October 31 has been the most suc- 

 cessful in point of circulation building in the history 

 of this journal. We have had representatives at work 

 in California, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, 

 western Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming and the re- 

 sults have been exceedingly satisfactory. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is being read by two and 

 one-half times as many people today as were reading 

 it a little over a year ago, and it is doubtful if any 

 class publication in the United States can make and 

 substantiate a similar statement. 



This should be interesting news to all manufac- 

 turers through the United States as well as the coloniza- 

 tion people who are figuring on developing areas under 

 irrigation throughout the west. Judging from present 

 indications it is our firm belief that our list will have 

 doubled from November, 1908, to November, 1909. 

 There is a great and rapidly growing interest in irri- 

 gation affairs. Middle and eastern states people are 

 becoming aware of the fact that the public lands are 

 being rapidly taken up and that those who secure land 

 at a moderate cost must do so within the next year or 

 two. Land in private holdings over the entire country 

 has greatly increased in value and this is particularly 



noticeable in the southwest and northwestern states. 

 There are yet thousands of acres to be secured under 

 the different forms of entry governing the settlement 

 of the remaining public domain, but, as above stated, 

 these lands are going so rapidly that it is certain that 

 a year or two more will develop conditions whereby 

 the prospective settler will have to hunt long and care- 

 fully for choice locations. It behooves the man who 

 has a growing family to look into the land question 

 today and study conditions under irrigation develop- 

 ment in the west, and this can be done more easily by 

 regular purusal of the columns of THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 than in any other manner. 



Whose Is 

 the Greater 

 Interest? 



The grievance of the Inyo County farm- 

 ers against the Eeclamation Service in 

 ignoring their rights in favor of the de- 

 mands of the city of Los Angeles, 230 

 miles away, is ~of vastly more importance 

 to all communities where irrigation is or is to be ii 

 use than the settlement of this one concrete difficulty 

 seems at first glance. It is of vital concern to every 

 irrigated district in that the outcome of the Owens 

 Eiver valley protest against Los Angeles' taking vir- 

 tually their whole water supply will establish a prec- 

 edent which will settle once and for all the question 

 as to whose is the greater interest the city's or the 

 rural community's. 



The case of the farmers as presented before the 

 Eesolutions Committee of the Sixteenth National Irrl- 



