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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE TWIN FALLS PROJECT. 



IRRIGATION INSTITUTIONS AS A FACTOR IN 

 ECONOMICS. 



Every Condition Seems to Favor This Remarkable Sec- 

 tion of the Gem State. 



Irrigation is King. 



This great irrigation enterprise under close and 

 careful business management is demonstrating to the 

 satisfaction of the most skeptical that irrigation is the 

 true science of farming. The company has also had the 

 foresight to engage one of the ablest and most practical 

 farmers in the Northwest, Hon. Alec McPherson, who 

 is busy with the farmers all the time, giving them prac- 

 tical instruction and the benefit of a long and success- 

 ful career as an agriculturist. 



BY WILLIAM W. GAMBLE. 



Secretary of the Eldorado Co-operative Canal Company 

 (Montana). 



There is an awakening of the American people 

 that may be compared to a breeze that stirs dead 

 leaves in Valombrosa and we recognize that the atmos- 

 phere has changed. It is the process of evolution 

 and we understand that the conditions of society are 

 not permanent conditions, but are those of change. 

 Yesterday, and the extreme conception of an uncon- 

 trolled and unbridled individual enterprise was the 

 accepted condition. Today the result of this unregu- 



Hotel Perrine, Twin Falls, Idaho. 



Mr. McPherson is also authority on horticulture. 

 Over 50,000 acres of this great area of 240,000 acres 

 has already been cleared of sage brush and placed 

 under cultivation. 



The Twin Falls project is one of the most attractive 

 irrigation enterprises in the arid zone and deservedly 

 so. During the last twelve months over five thousand 

 people have located on the Twin Falls tract, most are 

 there to stay. The Minidoka & Southwestern Railroad, 

 a branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, has just 

 been completed as far as the "Power City," Twin Falls. 

 This road practically rims through the center of the 

 tract, giving the farmers the benefit of up-to-date trans- 

 portation ; climate, location, fertility of the soil, markets, 

 coupled with the broad, humane, sensible policy of the 

 Twin Falls Land & Water Company, makes this enter- 

 prise especially attractive to the man or woman who is 

 looking for a home in the new west, where if they are 

 willing to labor their reward is a certainty. 



lated enterprise, the exploitation of the many for the 

 benefit of the few is questioned and a vision of public 

 control fills the imagination. Tomorrow and the rem- 

 edy of public ownership will be suggested to the minds 

 of many. The magazines of the country have for the 

 past eighteen months been publishing a series of de- 

 structive articles; destructive because they have awak- 

 ened in the minds of many a realization of the dangers 

 and injustice of present conditions. They have also 

 begun a series of constructive articles; constructive be- 

 cause they invoke the experience of other lands to af- 

 ford in so far as that experience can afford, help for 

 us in determining our own course through the eddying 

 currents of democratic, industrial, economic and social 

 theories that throng the way. 



The American people, long fed upon sensational 

 reports of great investigations, are intently studying the 



