THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1906. 



No. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE D. H. ANDERSON PUBLISHING CO., 



PUBLISHERS. 

 112 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., as Second-Class Matter. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



W.J.ANDERSON) Assodate Editors J. B. COATES, 



G. L.SHUMWAYJ Associate Bus. Mgr. 



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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 year* 

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



The photographs used in connection with 

 Photographs our article on the Belle Fourche project 

 Belie in this issue, were secured through the 



Fourche. courtesy of Mr. L. H. Storgaard, staff 



artist of the Dakota Farmer. 



Southwest 

 Texas. 



We are presenting in this issue an illus- 

 trated article on southern Texas, data for 

 which has been secured through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Win. Doherty, general passen- 

 ger of the Gulf Coast Line, Corpus Christi, Tex. Mr. 

 Doherty is also editor and publisher of that charming 

 little publication called the Gulf Coast Line Magazine. 



Our readers are herewith respectfully re- 

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This journal has received many letters re- 

 Pays cently from advertisers speaking in high 



Advertisers, terms of the pulling quality of THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE. One advertiser who has 

 been carrying a four-inch advertisement in one hundred 

 and sixty standard publications has informed us that 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE and Farm & Ranch of Dallas, 



Texas, have brought a greater number of inquiries than 

 have been received from all the other papers combined. 

 This is a very high compliment and should attract the 

 attention of all who are placing advertising to reach the 

 prosperous farmer. 



Twin 

 Falls. 



On a recent visit to the West, the editor 

 of THE IRRIGATION AGE visited for the 

 second time the far-famed town of Twin 

 Falls, Idaho. At the time of his first 

 visit the land where Twin Falls now stands was virgin 

 desert covered with sage brush. Today, less than two 

 years after the first visit, is to be seen a town of 2,500 

 inhabitants, with an area of nearly 200,000 acres of 

 land adjacent to it under cultivation, a large part of 

 which produced good crops in the season of 1905. 



Where two years ago one could see nothing but 

 sage brush for mile after mile are now neat, substan- 

 tial farm houses, fenced farms and well worked land. 

 The great Twin Falls irrigation canal, which will 

 eventually supply nearly 400,000 acres of desert land 

 with water taken from the Snake River, is an object les- 

 son to all who make a study of the reclamation of the 

 arid West. 



Twin Falls has a commercial club with a mem- 

 bership of about 150, composed of men who are en- 

 gaged in commercial pursuits in that city. These men 

 are all wide awake to the future possibilities of that 

 territory and are doing everything possible to promote 



