THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



153 



(Continued from page 151.) 



Mr. Smith also submitted that the maintenance charge 

 should be paid out of the reclamation fund, that the Recla- 

 mation Act has always been construed to mean that all ex- 

 penditures on a project for construction, operation and 

 maintenance must be returned to the fund. In view of the 

 numerous instances where Congress has thus construed this 

 feature of the Reclamation Act there is no doubt of the au- 

 thority of the Secretary of the Interior to collect such 

 charges as he may deem proper on account of operation and 

 maintenance of the irrigation works. 



A protest was also made against the charge during 1907 

 and 1908 of $1.50 per acre, in view of the fact that the 

 maintenance and operation charge in the public notice re- 

 cently issued was placed at 75 cents per acre. It is mani- 

 fest that the expense of operation and maintenance for the 

 delivery of water to a few thousand acres is much greater 

 per acre than for thirty to forty thousand acres. 



Contract has been awarded to the Fulton Engine Works, 

 Los Angeles, Cal., to supply pump, pit gates and controlling 

 mechanism for the Minidoka Irrigation Project, Idaho. The 

 contract amounts to $10,994. 



CORRESPONDENCE 



We are presenting herewith a letter received recently 

 from a subscriber at Jerome, Idaho, and will request our read- 

 ers who have had experience along this line to send us such 

 information as may assist him. We have informed our cor- 

 respondent that his letter will be published, and such replies 

 as are received will be submitted to him. We have explained 

 to him that the matter is treated fully in our Primer of Irri- 

 gation. (Ed.) 



"Jerome, Idaho, Jan. 22, 1908. 

 "Mr. D. H. Anderson, Editor of the Irrigation Age: 



Dear Sir I have just been reading your book entitled 

 "Primer of Irrigation," and am especially interested in your 

 treatment of sub-irrigation or infiltration. Am an owner of 

 land on the north side of Snake river, water to be turned on 

 the 1st of April next. On my land are a number of heavy 

 slopes, soil quite sandy and probably two feet deep, underlaid 

 by a compact subsoil, through which water would penetrate 

 very slowly. At varying depths over the tract we find lava 

 rock, porous and generally shattered. Therefore there is no 

 ground water table. Now, I had planned to lay four-inch tile 

 about two feet deep probably fifty feet apart, tile to be laid 

 on the level with boxes at the end, so as to give water press- 

 ure at least one foot above the tile. Now, as the slope is 

 about two feet in fifty, the pressure, gravity and capillarity 

 would all tend to bring the water to the surface. Gates could 

 be so arranged as to change the tile to a drainage system. 

 This is practically, as I understand, your article applied to the 

 conditions of my land. I see Professor King of the Wisconsin 

 University discourages such a plan, claiming it will be im- 

 practical. 



Now, I have not been a reader of IRRIGATION AGE for over 

 a year, so you may have treated fully in regard to this mat- 

 ter. This reference to your journal reminds me that, as sec- 

 retary of the Jerome North Side Farmers' Association I would 

 be pleased to act as your agent for IRRIGATION AGE and 

 other publications. If you send me copies I will distribute 

 them at our next meeting, the first Wednesday in January. 

 Would be glad to hear from you either directly or through 

 paper. 



"Rockford, 111., Oct. 6, 1908. 

 "Chicago House Wrecking Company, Chicago, 111. : 



"Gentlemen I received my car and have it unloaded and 

 find it all right. (Signed) "E. R. CRF.TSLEY." 



Send $2,50 for The Irrigation 



Age one year and 

 The Primer of Irrigation 



IRRIGATED 

 LAND 



Open to Settlement 



Some of the richest and most productive farm land 

 in the world lies along the Shoshone and the Big Horn 

 Rivers in the "Big Horn Basin" of Wyoming. Over 

 ten million dollars is being spent by the United States 

 Government and by private enterprise in building 

 great concrete dams and ditches in order to lead an 

 inexhaustible supply of water to irrigate some of the 

 best of these lands and make them independent of 

 rainfall. A great portion of this work is completed, 

 and these lands, with a perpetual supply of water for 

 irrigating them, are now offered you on reasonable 

 terms. 



This is an Unusual Opportunity 



to get a wonderfully productive farm, with water 

 whenever you want it, regardless of rainfall ; in a 

 country where a single crop can be made to pay for 

 the land ; where 50 bushels of wheat or barley, and 75 

 bushels of oats are commonly grown to the acre; 

 where fruits grow luxuriously and where the glorious 

 air and sunshine, summer and winter, make life a 

 joyovts thing. 



This wonderful country is developing fast. 

 Churches and schools abound. The population is 

 intelligent, Godfearing and law-abiding, and any man 

 out there who is half a man has the opportunity to 

 make himself independent. 



Land in this great country is going fast. 

 If you have any thought for the welfare 

 of yourself or children, find out all about 

 this opportunity to -day. 



Send for our new folder with large map, and also 

 folders issued by the private irrigation companies and 

 by the United States Government Reclamation Service 

 giving all information about these lands, terms, etc. 

 Free for the asking. Study these folders and then 

 come with me on my next excursion to the Big Horn 

 Basin and see for yourself. My excursions, which I 

 personally conduct, leavS Omaha on the 1st and 3d 

 Tuesday each month, on which days reduced railroad 

 rates are in effect. My services are free to you. 



Burlington 



D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent 



Landseekers' Information 

 Bureau, 



69 Q Building, OMAHA, NEB. 



N. B.- -The winter weather in the Basin Country 

 is fine and lands can usually be seen to advantage all 

 Winter, 



