THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1904. 



No. 4. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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EDITOR.I AL 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Absorbs Modern Irrigation. Modern Irrigation, 

 of Denver, the oldest publication next to THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE devoted to irrigation interests, has been pur- 

 chased outright by the D. H. Anderson Publishing 

 Company, of Chicago, publishers of THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE. Modern Irrigation is the successor of the Irriga- 

 tion Era, Arid America, Mid-West and the Farm Her- 

 ald, Denver. The business and subscription lists of 

 Modern Irrigation have all been taken over by THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE. All advertising contracts will be 

 filled by this paper, and THE IRRIGATION AGE will be 

 sent to all subscribers of Modern Irrigation until the 

 expiration of their subscriptions. 



The addition of the entire list of subscribers to 

 Modern Irrigation gives THE IRRIGATION AGE a much 

 larger circulation enjoyed by all the combined maga- 

 zines and papers published in the interest of irrigation 

 in the United States makes it the strongest publica- 

 tion of its kind in the world; in fact, it is the only 

 thorough representative devoted to irrigation interests 

 that is now published. 



The addition of the large list of subscribers be- 

 longing to Modern Irrigation will be of great benefit 

 to advertisers in THE IRRIGATION AGE, as it now cov- 

 ers very thoroughly the entire field. Advertisers can 

 reach all interests connected with their business 

 through THE IRRIGATION AGE more satisfactorily than 

 by all other mediums. 



Senator Hansbrough, Chairman of the 

 To Fix Re- Senate Public Lands Committee, in an 

 sponsibility. interview with the representative of THE 



IRRIGATION AGE, tells in a very few 

 words the simple object of his bill providing for the 

 appointment for a chief engineer of the Reclamation 

 Service. The bill is aimed at nobody and is not in- 

 tended to interfere with the legitimate duties of any 

 official of the Government nor is it intended to do any 

 one any harm. It is only a wise provision to protect 

 the interests of the people of the States in which the 

 Government is to carry on its great work of reclaiming 

 lands and to fix the responsibility for this work. As 

 the reclamation bill now stands, 'this responsibility is 

 not very clearly defined. The work is divided between 

 the Secretary of the Interior, the Chief Engineer of the 

 Reclamation Service and other officials. The Secretary 

 of the Interior is not an engineer, and while the Chief 

 Engineer has great powers he is not clothed with final 

 authority in matters involving the expenditure of mil- 

 lions of dollars, so that the service as at present organ- 

 ized is in rather a loose and unbusinesslike condition 

 without a responsible head. The appointment of a 

 Chief Engineer with the proper authority will not only 

 protect the interests of the Government, but of the 

 people who are to be benefited by the work of the 

 reclamation bureau and add immeasurably to the 

 efficiency of its work. It is a good bill and has recieved 

 the endorsement of a large number of the members of 

 both houses of Congress. It ought to pass. 



