THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1906. 



NO. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Interesting to Advertisers. 



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. 



We have at hand Agricultural Bulletin 

 Union Pacific No. 56, issued by the General Passenger 

 Literature. Department of the Union Pacific Kail- 

 way, Omaha. The Bulletin treats of the 

 principal crop yields and covers seventeen states and 

 territories west of the Mississippi river, six of which 

 are in the territory of the Southern Pacific and eleven 

 on the Union Pacific and its auxiliaries. These eleven 

 states, only a few years ago, were comparatively an un- 

 productive wilderness. Now they are the major portion 

 of the granary of the world. 



The total acreage, yield and farm values of these 

 eleven states for the past year almost reach one thousand 

 million dollars in value. 



This valuable bulletin will prove interesting to all 

 who may be interested in the development of the West. 

 Write to the General Passenger Department, Union 

 Pacific Railway, Omaha, Neb., for a copy. 



The recent overwhelming disaster which 

 E. H. visited the Pacific coast has given a fair 



Harriman. idea of the mettle of men of affairs, and 



this has been no more strikingly exhibited 

 than in the case of Mr. E. H. Harriman, president of 

 the Southern Pacific system. When the first news of 

 the appalling disaster reached that gentleman he got 

 in communication with the next man in power, Mr. J. 

 C. Stubbs, of Chicago, and the two were on their way 

 to the stricken district within a few hours and have 

 remained steadily in the danger zone, doing everything 



in their power to assist those in distress and bring order 

 out of chaos. To the individual who has not been in 

 touch with similar conditions this may appear to be a 

 simple matter, b.ut the writer, who was in contact with 

 the situation during the first three days of the trouble, 

 is in a position to testify that the conduct of these gen- 

 tlemen, as well as other railway men, was heroic in 

 the extreme. 



One had but to stand at a station on the main lines 

 of the Southern Pacific system and watch the many 

 trains pass by westbound, loaded with provisions for 

 the sufferers, or the eastbound trains loaded with ref- 

 ugees, who were carried free of charge, to estimate the 

 enormous expense encountered by the railway com- 

 panies, who bore it uncomplainingly nay willingly. 



The editor of IRRIGATION AGE was caught in the 

 "quake" at a point named Pajaro, one hundred miles 

 south of San Francisco, and was detained by a combina- 

 tion of sunken track behind and serious landslides ahead, 

 the train being held up and out of communication with 

 the outside world for over thirty hours. This is an 

 illustration of the many difficulties which railway offi- 

 cials encountered beyond the loss of their main offices 

 in San Francisco and total demoralization of their 

 western terminals. In view of these facts we reiterate 

 that the public generally, and particularly those of the 

 Pacific coast, owe much to Mr. Harriman, his able 

 assistants and the officials of all other railways reaching 

 the Pacific coast. Beyond the immense cost to them 

 through damage to tracks, equipment, etc., it is rea- 



