THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1906. 



No. 4 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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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 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 21 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Do not forget that the Fourteenth Na- 

 Irrigation tional Irrigation Congress, to meet at 

 Congress. Boise, Idaho, this year, will be one of 



the most interesting meetings of that 

 character ever held. The public spirited citizens of 

 Boise and Idaho generally are planning to make this a 

 memorable gathering both in point of attendanee, char- 

 acter of work accomplished, and entertainment offered 

 the delegates. The date of this meeting will be given 

 in our issue of March. The American Irrigation Fed- 

 eration will hold its first annual meeting at Boise at 

 the same time, but will in no wise conflict with the 

 deliberations of that body, with which it is in per- 

 fect accord. 



We are presenting in this issue an illus- 

 TheFlatheadtrated article on the Great Flathead Bes- 

 Reservation. ervation in Montana, written by Maj. 



W. H. Srnead, of Missoula, Mont., for- 

 merly U. S. Indian Agent in charge of that reserva- 

 tion. Those of our readers who are desirous of secur- 

 ing additional information concerning this section of 

 one of the best states in the West, may feel at liberty 

 to correspond with Major Smead, who will gladly answer 

 all inquiries. THE IRRIGATION AGE has said much con- 

 cerning Montana and her glories but with all of our 

 illustrations and descriptive matter, but a faint idea 

 may be obtained; one must visit that State to realize 

 its possibilities or comprehend its grandeur. 



In an address on reclamation work in the 

 Tells of Irri- West before the National Geographic So- 

 gation Wbrk.ciety recently, C. J. Blanchard, of the 

 Geological Survey, declared that seventy- 

 seven miles of main canals of river size have been built 

 during the three years in which the United States Be- 

 clamation Service has been organized and irrigation 

 canals long enough to span the earth twice and repre- 

 senting an outlay of $90,000,000 had been built the 

 past quarter century. 



"Every year," he said, "this area returns a har- 

 vest valued at more than $150,000,000, and 2,000,000 

 people dwell in harmony and content where only a 

 short time ago the wilderness reigned. 



"The Reclamation Service has built fifty- four miles 

 of irrigation canals and '186 miles of ditches. It has 

 constructed and has in operation 150 miles of tele- 

 phone, 125 miles of road in canons, involving deep 

 cuts, it has excavated 10,000,000 cubic yards of material 

 and one-half mile of tunnels. Work is now actually 

 going on in eleven different projects." 



Mr. Blanchard is perhaps the most popular man 

 connected with the Eeclamation Service save C. E. 

 Grunsky. Mr. Blanchard told his audience something 

 that THE IRRIGATION AGE has long attempted to em- 

 phasize, viz., that the outlay of $90,000,000, 80 per cent 

 of which was expended by private corporations, has 

 made the West "blossom like a rose." He failed to 

 explain, however, why the Eeclamation Service is so 

 persistently trying to kill all effort in that direction 



