THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1909. 



NO. 8 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



IRRIGATION AGE COMPANY, 

 PUBLISHERS, 



112 Dearborn Street, 



CHICAGO 



Entered wcond-clu* nutter October , 18*7, at the Pmtofice *t 

 Chicago, III., under Act of March i. 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON. Editor 



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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



Official organ of the American Irrigation Federation. 

 Office of the Secretary, 212 Boyce Building, Chicago. 



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It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irtigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and W 

 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. 



Spokane is enthused, elated, exultant. 

 Success Two months before the day when the Na- 



Greets tional Irrigation Congress will open it? 



Congress sessions in that city success is assured. 

 Plans. Western spirit, backed by western brain 



and vigor, has awakened the nation from 

 its apathy and turned its eye to the west and its thought 

 to progress. August 9-14 will be potent in the history 

 of American development and industry. 



Railway builders, financiers, statesmen., scientists, 

 officials and more, the eastern farmer and truck gard- 

 ener have agreed to make their home in Spokane for 

 several days and discover for themselves whether the 

 reports of bumper fruit and grain crops from western 

 irrigated land are chimerical or real. Interest has been 

 aroused, and with its usual incisive inquiry American 

 labor and American capital will investigate. 



. Nor is Spokane too strongly intoxicated by the 

 first draughts of success. Under the able direction of 

 the Board of Control for this congress new plans for 

 entertainment and comfort of the visitors are being 

 formed, while the detail of the old are assuming per- 

 manent form. For years the west has beckoned the 

 east, has urged it to leave its crowded cities and vil- 

 lages for the free, wholesome, remunerative life of the 

 mountain and the valley. At last the call is heard and 

 the west is to be the host. 



Spokane is a fitting city for the welcome. Realizing 



its responsibilities and its duties to its fellows, plans 

 for the great gathering have been drawn on comprehen- 

 sive lines. Aggression and energy have triumphed and 

 the irrigation age is dawning. 



State 

 Anthem. 



Reginald De Koven, composer of "Robin 

 Hood" and other light operas, and Profes- 

 sor Edmond S. Meany, head of the depart- 

 ment of history in the University of Wash- 

 ington, were signally honored by both houses of the state 

 legislative in regular session at Olympia, when, by joint 

 resolution, "Washington Beloved" was declared the state 

 anthem. Mr. De Koven's music for Professor Meany's 

 verses is dignified and distinctive. The words follow : 



"Washington Beloved." 



Thy name, oh Washington renown'd, 



We hail from far and near, 

 Thy glories joyfully resound 



In songs of praise and mighty cheer. 



Thy fame, oh Washington serene, 



Leads up on to the sky, 

 While we thro' ev'ry changing scene, 



Thy purple pennants lift on high. 



Thy deeds, oh Washington benign, 



Will last as hills of stone, 

 While we like ore the fires refine, 



Will ring forth praise to thee alone. 



Thy sons, oh Washington belov'd. 



Lift up their heads in pride, 

 By whatsoever sea remov'd 



To thee, in love, their lives are tied. 



