THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1903. 



No. 2. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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EDITORIAL 



Good Gracious! 



The delay in issuing our December num- 

 Cause her was caused by storms delaying mat- 



For tor for a special El Paso and Payette edi- 



Our Delay, tion. El Paso matter is not yet all in, 



but will be made a special feature of a 

 hundred-page New Year's edition to appear early in 

 January. 



There is no reason why the unsentimental 

 From Our delvers in the soil, ditch diggers, and tile 

 Christmas layers, are not entitled to the good wishes 

 Tree. extended to all during the Christmas and 



New Year's season. 



Accept the hearty greetings of THE IRRIGATION AGE, 

 peace to all you men of good will. May your ditches 

 run full, and your crops shadow the earth. May your 

 drainage tile carry off the alkali that curses your soil. 

 May you never know what it is to have a drought, and 

 may evaporation, run off, and seepage keep far from you. 

 May you enjoy the luscious fruits of your own labor 

 beneath your own vine and fig tree, and may the tax 

 collector be easy with you, and all land reformers, 

 schemes, pious amendment-to-the-land-laws dope fiends 

 keep beyond range of your shotgun. May you grow fat, 

 contented and happy, and in the near future find bliss- 

 ful, toilless repose, with a substantial bank account to 

 lean upon. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is reliably 

 informed that one Mr. George 

 H. Maxwell is boasting that, by 

 reason of his strong pull with the 



transcontinental railways, he will see to it that the 

 several companies will place no more advertising in its 

 columns. As our bucolic friend, Silas Thornapple, 

 would say: "This is puffickly orful!" 



Inasmuch as THE IRRIGATION AGE has never ob- 

 tained anything from the railway companies which it 

 has not paid full value for, either in cash or in adver- 

 tisements, the publisher does not consider that he is 

 under any obligations to them for "favors." Perhaps 

 it is a fancy, but we wish we could say the same of 

 Mr. Maxwell. It might be to the advantage of his 

 credibility, good faith and influence in the curious 

 schemes he appears to be fostering. 



By the way, if George's boast is founded upon 

 fact, it puts the transcontinental railways in the 

 position of verifying what we have always insisted 

 upon, that Maxwell possesses some mysterious "pull" 

 which compels them to follow his lead like a flock of 

 sheep following a bellwether down a precipice. We 

 can imagine what that pull is, but would like to have 

 George give us the details for future use when we ask 

 a "favor" of the railroads. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE of Chicago, and Modern 

 Irrigation of Denver, will be issued every month as 

 usual, even if Mr. Maxwell should procure a writ of 

 injunction against their publisher traveling on any 

 railroad in the United States. 



