THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1908. 



NO. 2 



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 is th< 

 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 has 

 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. 



We are presenting in this issue the first 

 Owens of a series of articles on the Owens Val- 



Valley, ley-Los Angeles question. In following 



California. numbers additional details will be given 

 and all of the information obtained by the 

 editor during a recent visit to that country will be sub- 

 mitted to the public through the columns of this 

 journal. 



These facts will also be presented to Government 

 officials, leading citizens and the prominent newspapers 

 throughout the country by means of a well conducted 

 news bureau. This bureau will also, from time to time, 

 give information concerning the usurpation of the peo- 

 ple's rights by bureau heads at Washington. 



The west is evidently up in arms over the treat- 

 ment accorded them by the head of the Forestry Bu- 

 reau. 



We hope to furnish some interesting facts to our 

 readers concerning these matters during the coming 

 year. 



A well defined plan is on foot to petition 

 Investigate Congressman Mondell of Wyoming to 

 Land present a resolution to the next Congress 



Office. calling for an investigation into the 



affairs of the General Land Office. 

 It is no secret that this office is in a hopeless tangle 

 and that the time has come for Congress to take a hand 

 in the interest of good government. 



The administration of this office for the past few 



years has been conducted on the lines of reform, but 

 the results are far from satisfactory. The trouble has 

 been in the failure to distinguish between the honest 

 settler and the "land grabber," which should be easy to 

 determine. 



Today every man seeking title to government land 

 is treated as a thief until he proves himself innocent, 

 and this sometimes takes him from five to seven years 

 to accomplish. 



Formerly all settlers were considered honest until 

 proven guilty; under present conditions the reverse is 

 true. 



Pacific 



Coast 



Extension 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Bail- 

 way will derive much help in exploiting 

 the country along its new Pacific Coast 

 line through the fact of the Seventeenth 

 National Irrigation Congress being held 

 at Spokane next year. This great system has been en- 

 gaged in extending its line to the coast during the past 

 two years and has made such wonderful headway as to 

 attract the attention of the world. 



The officials of the system deserve praise for the 

 work accomplished during the past year, when finan- 

 cial conditions were not such as to warrant a heavy ex- 

 penditure on new work. 



This new line is entering a section of the country 

 heretofore almost unknown, territory rich in timber, 

 minerals and agricultural possibilities. 



There will develop along its route as a result great 



