THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1906. 



No. 12 



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. 



Wide 

 Tires. 



In France every carrier's and every market 

 cart, instead of injuring the highway, im- 

 proves it. Many of the tires are ten inches 

 wide. In the four-wheeled vehicles of that 

 country the rear axle is fourteen inches longer than the 

 fore, and as a result the rear wheels run in a line about 

 an .inch outside the level rolled by the front wheel. 

 After a few loaded wagons have passed over a road the 

 highway looks as if a steam roller had been at work. 

 A national law in Germany prescribes that wagons heav- 

 ily loaded must have tires not less than four inches 

 wide. In Austria the minimum for similar vehicles is 

 six and a half inches; in Switzerland, six inches. 



On the fifth of September C. M. Heintz, 

 C. M. Heintz. editor of The Rural Calif ornian, Los 



Angeles, died suddenly at his home in 

 that city. When the editor of this paper met him last 

 April in his office in Los Angeles, Mr. Heintz expressed 

 his intention of attending the fourteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress at Boise, Idaho, but his death 

 occurred on the third day of the congress. No an- 

 nouncement of his demise was made at the congress, 

 or resolutions of condolence would have been drawn 

 up and sent to the bereaved family. The deceased was 

 a personal friend of the editor of the IEEIGATION 

 AGE, and one time was secretary of the National Irri- 

 gation Congress. No particulars as to the cause of his 

 death have been given out. 



On the first of September the volume of 

 Money in money in circulation in. the United States 

 Circulation. was the greatest on record, the amount 



being $2,766,913,299. This is an in- 

 crease of forty-five and a quarter millions over a year 

 ago, and a gain of six hundred and seventy millions 

 over the corresponding period of 1900. Many will be 

 interested in knowing how our various forms of cur- 

 rency figure in the total amount. Here are the details : 

 Gold coin, $676,179,514; gold certificates, $519,965,- 

 889; standard silver dollars, $78,938,609; silver cer- 

 tificates, $473,292,991; subsidiary silver, $113,399,532; 

 Treasury notes, $7,112,252 ; United States notes, $338,- 

 728,846 ; national bank notes, $559,295,666. 



The Eeclamation Service has definitely 

 Now on a put all of its engineers and experts on a 

 Cash Basis. cash basis. During the period of initia- 

 tion of the work it was necessary to pay 

 the men in the field not only their regular wages, but 

 also to furnish them subsistence. With the creation of 

 permanent camps or stations the necessity of furnishing 

 rations no longer existed, and it seemed wise to require 

 that all men, whether laborers or engineers, obtaining 

 subsistence at these camps should pay a flat rate of 

 seventy-five cents per day for meals furnished. This 

 charge is accordingly deducted from the salaries or 

 wages paid, and these are adjusted accordingly, so that 

 salaries are now comparable on a money basis, and are 

 not confused with the question of subsistence. 



