Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1909. 



NO. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



IRRIGATION AGE COMPANY, 

 PUBLISHERS, 



112 Dearborn Street, - - CHICAGO 



Entered u Kcond-clui mutter October t, 187, at the 

 Chic.no, I1L. under Act of March t. 1878. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



Official organ of the American Irrigation Federation. 

 Office of the Secretary, 212 Boyce Building, Chicago. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is UK 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It a read regularly by all interested in this subject and has 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 25 yean 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



The United States Land and Irrigation 

 To Open Exposition, to open at the Coliseum in 

 Irrigation this city November 20th and to continue 

 Exposition until December 4th, promises to be one of 

 in Chicago, the greatest educational institutions of the 

 day. The original idea of this exposition 

 was to attract the attention of the people in central and 

 eastern states to the possibilities of the West. This plan 

 has been foremost in making the arrangements for the 

 coming show. 



It is estimated by the Tribune Company, having the 

 exposition in charge, that there will be an attendance 

 of at least 300,000 people. It is assured that those peo- 

 ple who visit and study the exhibits carefully will do 

 much toward advertising the West by explaining what 

 they have seen to friends and neighbors. 



The Tribune has been liberal in its expenditures 

 and is entitled to much credit for the manner in which 

 the preparations for the show have been handled. 



It remains to be proven that their estimate is cor- 

 rect, although the West trusts that their expectations 

 may be fully realized. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE will be represented by a 

 booth on one of the main aisles, and its many friends 

 are invited to call and make themselves at home. Many 

 thousands of sample copies of this issue will be dis- 

 tributed during the time of the Exposition, and will, no 

 doubt, greatly increase its paid circulation. 



Even as the Spirit of the West disdains 

 Irrigation the honor of custom and of precedent to 

 Age Has battle with difficulty and attain the glori- 

 Twenty-fifth us fruits of future success, so has THE 

 Birthday. IRRIGATION AGE struggled with adversity 

 and obstacle to reap the reward of fidelity 

 in a chosen field. Its editor has so long assimilated 

 western ideas and associated with those red-blooded, 

 clear-brained conquerors of the desert that his heart 

 throbs in accord with the pulsating energy of the empire 

 beyond the plains. 



But though the heart and eye be turned to the 

 future with its millions of happy homes 'neath the cloud- 

 less blue heaven, there are at times unconquerable forces 

 that compel a moment of pause and reflection. Our 

 readers will pardon the backward glance for THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE has passed the quarter-century stone, and 

 after a rough and stormy journey gazes into the smiling 

 valley of future years where its full power may be ex- 

 erted for the human race. Time has demanded her toll 

 of recollection and remembrance. 



Twenty-five years a mere falling of a grain in the 

 great hour-glass of time yet how potent in the indus- 

 try of American reclamation. What Alladin's lamp has 

 been rubbed to make the genii appear and change the 

 face of nature, to create millions of bounteous acres 

 where there was desert? Whence came this magic, this 

 fairy Goddess to wave a wand and in a twinkling to re- 



