THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1909. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



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Spokane has spoke. 



Five billions of dollars is some money. 



Hurrah for the hurrah for the Irrigation Congress. 



What valley does the Gunnison tunnel reclaim ? Say 

 it slower. 



Now let Pueblo try her hand then east with it, all 

 together. 



It is announced that there are to be fourteen differ- 

 ent kinds of irrigation to be exhibited at the Spokane 

 congress. Oh, what will the chasers be? 



If J. Pluvius doesn't refrain from trundling out 

 his hose cart.and turning irrigation canals into drainage 

 districts just before irrigation congresses he should be 

 kindly but firmly rebuked. 



When the Pathfinder dam was reported to be trem- 

 bling in the balance a young government engineer hur- 

 ried to the site. He wired his department as follows : 

 "Arrived yesterday dam safe." Two hours later he was 

 shocked with this query : "You or the Pathfinder ?" 



Just for the encouragement of those settlers who 

 have already waited for several years for government 

 water, we quote the recent weather report : "Deadwood 

 had so much rain that it was cut off from the world for 

 a week because all the railroads were washed away; 

 Lincoln, Neb., had seven inches of rain in two days; 

 Hebron, Neb., got four inches in two hours; Kapid 

 City, S. D., was without a train on any of its four roads 



for ten days; l the National Lumber Company lost 

 1,000,000 feet of lumber and railroad ties because of 

 high water in Wyoming; every stream in western Ne-- 

 braska and Wyoming is full. Farmers are digging 

 ditches and putting in tiling for the purpose of drain- 

 ing off some of the surplus moisture." 



Ruling 

 Against 

 Scrip 

 Payment. 



Reports from the west state that Secre- 

 tary Ballinger is about to put an end to 

 the co-operative plan of building govern- 

 ment irrigation projects, and that here- 

 after all such works will be built entirely 

 by the Reclamation Service and be paid 

 for exclusively out of the Reclamation fund. Mr. 

 Ballinger states that this was the intent of the law and 

 therefore the plan must be followed out in the future. 

 The decision comes from the Secretary's disapproval of 

 the scheme devised by Director Newell of the Reclama- 

 tion Service, under which settlers on uncompleted proj- 

 ects were permitted to work on canals, ditches, etc., and 

 receive in payment for their labor a certain kind of 

 scrip, which was later accepted by the Reclamation 

 Service in payment of their water rights. In devising 

 this co-operative scheme, Mr. Newell was undertaking 

 to lighten the burden of those settlers who had taken 

 land before water was available. 



It is the opinion of many that Mr. Newell was right 

 in this matter and that his move in this direction was of 

 great assistance to many of the settlers who were with- 



