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THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



THE AMERICAN IRRIGATORS' LEAGUE. 



An inter-protective association of irrigation farm- 

 ers, homeseekers and homebuilders in the arid and sem- 

 arid West and throughout the United States. 



The American Irrigators' League is organized as an 

 aid and adjunct to the National Irrigation Congress and 

 to perpetuate the same as the only reliable organization 

 to carry out the objects of the national irrigation laws, 

 secure State control of the distribution of water for 

 irrigation and to harmonize and unify the various di- 

 verse State irrigation systems" into one uniform sys- 

 tem. 



OBJECTS OF THE LEAGUE. 



The objects of the American Irrigators' League, 

 in addition to those pertaining to the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress, are specifically: 



First To agitate the passage of just, appropriate 

 and beneficial land and irrigation laws by Congress and 

 the State Legislatures, and to secure their honest en- 

 forcement and application and their speedy operation. 



Second To agitate for a uniform system of land 

 and water laws, and for the speedy redress of local griev- 

 ances and infringement of individual rights and to act 

 as a tribunal of arbitration for the settlement of differ- 

 ences. 



Third To oppose land and water syndicates and 

 combines organized for the purpose of oppressing 

 water users; to protect actual and prospective settlers 

 upon public lands against encroachments, frauds and 

 schemes of private individuals or officials, and to col- 

 lect evidence and provide for their exposure and pun- 

 ishment. 



Fourth By a system of inter-communication to 

 keep its members informed as to the most improved and 

 profitable methods of irrigation farming; profitable 



crops, best markets, locations of supply and demand and 

 ruling prices for products. 



HOW FORMED. 



The league is divided into divisions, based on water 

 districts, each water district constituting a local divi- 

 sion, the members of which shall consist of actual set- 

 tlers, who practice irrigation in whole or in part, or 

 who have homes in the arid or semi-arid regions. 



Congressional divisions corresponding with the 

 congressional districts recognized by the Congress of the 

 United States, and its members shall consist of members 

 of the local divisions, selected in the proportion of one 

 mernber of each congressional division to every ten or 

 less members of said local division. 



State divisions, the members of which shall be se- 

 lected from among the congressional divisions in the 

 proportion of one member of the State division to 

 every twenty-five members of each congressional divi- 

 sion, but said State division is in no case to exceed one 

 member to represent every county in the State to which 

 it belongs. 



A national division, or congress, which shall con- 

 sist of five members from each State, selected out of the 

 State divisions, and shall be limited to five members 

 from each State, selected as follows: One from each 

 of the north, south, east and westerly portions of each 

 State, with one member Ho be selected to represent the 

 State at krge. 



This organization has developed a membership of 

 3,150, scattered throughout the Western States. New 

 divisions are being rapidly formed. Organize your dis- 

 trict or county now. For further particulars and mem- 

 bership blanks write 



THE AMERICAN IRRIGATORS' LEAGUE, 



1208 Boyce Building. Chicago, 111. 



