THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



"Silas." 



J. A. Char- 

 ter, M. E. 



Bead what Silas Thornapple has to say 

 in another column concerning "Ozone 

 George" and "home gittin.' " 



We are presenting in this issue a portrait 

 of Mr. J. A. Charter, of Fairbanks, Morse 



& Co., Chicago, who acted as one of the 

 delegates from Illinois to the Eleventh National Irri- 

 gation Congress. Mr. Charter is an expert on pumping 

 machinery for irrigation purposes and is very much in- 

 terested in work along these lines, which is now receiv- 

 ing such general attention throughout the west. Fair- 

 banks, Morse & Co. are making an active campaign 

 through Mr. Charter and their many branch houses 

 throughout the west for their share of this business. 



With this issue we appear as Number 1 of 

 Volume Volume 19 of THE IRRIGATION AGE. One 

 Nineteen. yeair ago the size of this journal was 



changed from standard magazine to its 

 present form. This change was made to accommodate 

 larger illustrations and permit us to present a more 

 attractive front to our readers. This with other im- 

 provements has very materially aided us in building up 

 a much larger subscription list and enables the AGE to 

 more easily maintain a position which by age it is right- 

 fully entitled, viz., that of the leading and best irriga- 

 tion magazine of the world. The circulation of this 

 magazine has increased from 9,000 to over 22,000 copies, 

 and all within a period of two years. This increase is 

 due largely to the unusual interest throughout the coun- 

 try in irrigation matters as well as to the improvement 

 in quality of matter furnished our readers. 



Beginning with its issue of November, 

 "Modern Modern Irrigation, published at Denver, 

 Irrigation." Colo., and second in point of age to THE 



IRRIGATION AGE, passes into new control. 

 This magazine, which is the successor of The Irrigation 

 Era, Arid America, and a number of other western pub- 

 lications devoted to irrigation and agriculture, will be 

 published by The Modern Irrigation Publishing Com- 

 pany, Denver, of which D. H. Anderson, of THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE, is president, and George W. Wagner, a well- 

 known publisher of Denver, is secretary and treasurer. 



In this connection it may not be out of place to 

 say that advertisers desirous of developing trade among 

 irrigation farmers, irrigation corporations and dealers 

 in implements, vehicles and accessory lines throughout 

 the western states, will find these two publications the 

 VERY BEST medium. All correspondence concerning ad- 

 vertising, etc., may be directed to the D. H. Anderson 

 Publishing Company, 112 Dearborn street, Chicago. 



It was the coddling moth that lost Utah 

 Coddling: the prize of the Clark loving cup at the 

 Moths and exhibition connected with the recent Elev- 

 Canker enth National Irrigation Congress at 



Worms. Ogden, Utah. Dosch of the awarding com- 



mittee said : "It was too bad, Utah ought 

 to have the cup, but it will teach their fruit growers a 

 lesson." 



Oregon and Washington felt barred from compet- 

 ing for the cup on account of the same coddling moth. 



It will indeed be a lesson to fruit growers, and to 

 apply the lesson to matters equally as important, adding 

 the canker worm, likewise a destructive agent, we wish 

 to say that there is nothing of good, beneficial, or for 

 the public welfare that is not tainted by coddling moths 

 and canker worms, constantly gnawing, gnawing, and 

 depositing baneful germs to ripen and corrupt the 

 whole mass. 



The majority of the delegates to the Eleventh 

 National Irrigation Congress now understand clearly 

 the deleterious influences secretly at work to destroy the 

 universal objects and aims of their congress, and turn 

 it into a cover, disguise, backing for the private designs 

 of personal schemers, who are constantly quoting the 

 maxims of honesty, morality, public good, and President 

 Eoosevelt while undermining all of them in the dark. 



Let no delegate forget the truism of the wise bard : 

 "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose," and 

 watch the trend of events as they gradually center upon 

 the Twelfth National Irrigation Congress to be held at 

 El Paso in 1904. Observe the cunning work that will 

 be done during the coming year to gain the control of 

 that Congress and debauch it from its purpose with a 

 private scheme, a cover for land and water grabbing syn- 

 dicates. And while these coddling moths and canker 

 worms are busily engaged in destroying the fair fruit 

 of the irrigation law, observe, also, the "spraying" THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE will apply to them in accordance with 

 the suggestion made by Commissioner S. T. Whitaker, 

 director-general of the Utah exhibit at the St. Louis 

 exposition. 



The editor of THE IRRIGATION AGE has 

 El Paso, recently returned from an extended south- 

 Texas, western trip, on which he visited Colo- 

 rado, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Texas' and parts of Old Mexico. His objective point 

 on leaving Chicago was El Paso, Tex., with a view to 

 studying the possibilities of that city as a point for 

 holding the next Irrigation Congress, and to give our 

 readers some idea of the advantages of that city so far 

 as handling a large crowd of people is concerned. 



Our impressions of the city of El Paso leads us to 

 believe that it is destined to become a great commercial 

 metropolis of a vast region. Nature has given her the 

 position, and the laws of trade, like the laws of nature, 



