Year- 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1910. 



No. 6 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 

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Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1897, at the 

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D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



"The Primer of Irrigation" is now ready for delivery. Price, 

 1.00. If ordered in connection with subscription, the price is $ J .50. 



THE IRRIGATION- AGE has established an 

 Irrigation 



South- ffi ce L s Angeles, California, from 

 Western which it will hereafter receive a regular 



Office. news letter relating to the entire south- 



rest, including Texas. This southwestern office is estab- 

 lished because of numerous suggestions within the past 

 ear or two from prominent irrigators in Texas, con- 

 erning the matter of devoting more space to the south- 

 western section of the United States. At a later date 

 the AGE will have direct representation in Houston or 

 . Antonio. 



Railroad With the great railway development which 



Penetrates ' ias ' Deen inaugurated in Oregon, an im- 

 ^entral mense territory, embracing thousands of 



regon. acres of valuable agricultural land, will be 



brought into the market. It is reported that the Hill 

 interests have engaged to build a line from the Columbia 

 liver, .along the Deschutes, as far as Bend, Oregon, and 

 is supposed that, if the line is built to this point, it 

 be extended at a later date to some port on the 

 i'acific coast. 



It has always been well known that central Oregon 

 one of the most delightful sections in the United 

 States. Excellent soil, ample supplies of water, favor- 

 able climate mark this area as one of the best in the 

 entire country. 



A representative of this company expects to make 



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Interesting to Advertisers. 



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

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

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 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. 



a trip overland, through Oregon, within the next sixty 

 days, starting in at the Columbia Eiver, and arriving at 

 some point near the Klamath lakes. A story of this 

 trip, with illustrations, will be published in future issues 

 of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Professor Ernest D. Bishop, a prominent 

 Besides educator in the city of Chicago, has re- 



Industry signed his position and will move his 

 Is Needed. family to a western irrigated ranch, where, 

 he tells one of the leading daily papers of this city, he 

 can do much better than on his former salary. He 

 states that he will go west and take up a farm where 

 members of his family may become healthy in body. 

 Tourteen years as instructor in the public schools have 

 exhausted his health and strength. Professor Bishop 

 wants his boys to go to college, and if he succeeds as a 

 western farmer or ranchman, he may realize his wish. 



While the professor, in his interview, is highly 

 optimistic, he must not overlook the fact that sufficient 

 funds are needed to insure a comfortable support for 

 his family until his first money crop matures. Many 

 people who are desirous of going west do not consider 

 that it requires more than air and water for existence. 

 That is why a small per cent of those who go into the 

 west fail to succeed. 



If the professor has $1,000 or $1,500 enough to 

 equip a moderate sized ranch and support his family for 



