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THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



THE AMERICAN IRRIGATION FEDERATION. 



Representatives from Many States Met at Omaha and 

 Formed an Organization. 



Declaration of Principles. 



After a conference of a number of friends of irri- 

 gation and western development living in affected dis- 

 tricts and manufacturing centers, a call was issued to 

 effect an organization. As a result men of national 

 repute gathered at Omaha Wednesday, January 10, and 

 formed the American Irrigation Federation, embracing 

 the following doctrines of faith : 



pling it with the most desirable, intelligent and progres- 

 sive citizenship possible to obtain. 



Seventh To fearlessly criticise the reclamation 

 officials, or private promoters, should they offend our 

 sense of justice. 



Eighth To aid in adjustment of freight rates to 

 and from the new areas and to recommend the establish- 

 ment of mills and factories where needed. 



Ninth To accomplish by criticism and suggestion 

 increased efficiency and perfection of the national irriga- 

 tion act. 



Tenth To invite friendly discussion and earnest 

 co-operation in efforts to perfect the reclamation service 



Irrigation Scenes in the West In the Uncompahgre District, in Northwestern Colorado, Where a Tunnel Six Miles Long Is Being Built to 

 Carry the Water from the Gunnison River Note the heavy crop of Alfalfa, the Result of Irrigation. 



First To endeavor to harmonize conflicting inter- 

 ests. 



Second To counsel with federal authorities and 

 private enterprise relative to determining their respec- 

 tive priorities and privileges. 



Third To promote essential legislation, propose 

 laws to encourage irrigation development and to perfect 

 those already on the statutes. 



Fourth To circulate instructive irrigation litera- 

 ture and exploit best methods of irrigation farming. 



Fifth To aid in settlement of the newly reclaimed 

 areas. 



Sixth To accomplish as quickly as possible the 

 reclamation of the greatest available acreage and peo- 



and prevent errors and waste that must eventually be 

 borne by water users. 



Eleventh To preserve the rights of the pioneers 

 of irrigation against unjust aggression and confiscation. 



This organization marks an epoch in the history of 

 irrigation development, as it is resultant from the de- 

 liberation of many of the best authorities and business 

 men of the country. Recent events, it is said, have 

 made manifest the necessity of a federation that will 

 stand for all that is needed to promote the interests of 

 the greater West; one that will neither hamper federal 

 work nor exclude legitimate private enterprise, yet have 

 the_courage to criticise errors, no matter from whence 

 they originate ; one that will labor in harmony with that 



