THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1909. 



NO. 6 



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 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. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is preparing to 

 Legal start, in an early issue, a Legal Depart- 



Department. ment upon the subject of Irrigation. This 



department will be edited by a well-known 

 attorney who has made a life study of the subject, and 

 will consist, First : Of a digest under the appropriate 

 heads all the current cases upon Irrigation from Aban- 

 donment to Water Rights, dating from January 1st, 

 1908. Second: These cases will be so digested as to 

 yearly amount to a complete digest of the Irrigation 

 Law of the United States for the year, and at the ex- 

 piration of each year it is our intention to publish same 

 separately and in book form. So far as we know there 

 are no irrigation reports, and from conversation with 

 various attorneys who have studied the subject, they 

 are greatly needed by the western farmer, and should 

 be in good demand among lawyers throughout 'irri- 

 gated areas of the world. Our monthly article will not 

 only be a digest, but a comment or brief on the cases 

 referred to, and where a leading case is decided it is 

 our intention to publish it in extenso. 



These cases would all be taken from the report of 

 the Supreme Court of all the western and irrigation 

 states and from the United States Court for the west- 

 ern circuit. 



It is hardly necessary for us to say that such a 

 feature added to the matter contained in THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE. brought out in a full and comprehensive 

 manner, will be of inestimable value to our readers, 



whether irrigation farmers, promoters of irrigation 

 projects or attorneys. We hope to have this matter so 

 well along as to present the first article in our May 

 number. It may possibly, however, not appear until a 

 month later. 



The visitors and delegates at the National 

 Alaska-Yukon Irrigation Congress to be held at Spo- 

 Exposition. kane, Washington, August 9th to 14th 

 of this year should arrange to visit the 

 Alaska- Yukon Exposition, which will be in full swing 

 during that month. The editor of THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 visited the grounds in Seattle in March, and can as- 

 sure its readers that they will find a well-equipped 

 show housed in buildings equal in beauty to those of 

 any former show of a similar character in fact, the 

 grounds are much superior to those of any exposition 

 in past years, and the buildings are equal to those at 

 the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 



Additional attractions are offered at Seattle, among 

 them being the far-famed Alaska trip by boat. 



Visitors from the central and eastern states will 

 also have an opportunity of viewing mountain ranges 

 and peaks rivaling the world's grandest scenery. 



Our readers should remember that the cost of 

 transportation is no more to Seattle than Spokane, and 

 it would be well to purchase tickets from eastern points 

 to Seattle over a northern line with stopover clause, 

 thereby securing the privilege of a layover at various 



