Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1910. 



No. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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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- 

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

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

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



The attention of our readers is called to the 

 Notice. advertisement of a Wyoming ranch, appear- 



ing in another column and which, on account 

 of the poor health of the owner, who is an elderly man, 

 is offered at a price, considering the intrinsic value and 

 excellent transportation facilities of the Laramie Valley, 

 is remarkably cheap. 



As will be seen by letter of announcement on 

 Irrigation another page of this issue, THE IRRIGATION 

 Age Official AGE has been made the official organ of the 

 Organ. National Irrigation Congress. Several elab- 



orate editions of the AGE will be gotten out 

 between now and the date of the Congress, fully explaining the 

 commercial interests of Pueblo and the entire Arkansas 

 Valley, of which Pueblo is the business center. 



Following the announcement in these col- 

 Series of umns last month, the IRRIGATION AGE has 

 Special sent a representative to the Lower Rio 

 Articles Grande Valley in Texas, to collect data con- 

 on Texas. cerning irrigation in that state. Owing to 



the fact that there has been much rapid 

 development in the central and western states, the AGE 

 has neglected the great and growing irrigation section in the 

 lower Rio Grande valley. To correct this condition the well 

 known author and writer, Dr. Brophy of Chicago, will write 

 a series of articles to appear in future issues of the AGE 

 Dr. Brophy may be depended upon to furnish matter that 

 will inform readers of the wonderful resources of this 

 section and will prove of interest to the eastern subscribers 

 to this journal. 



An item of more than ordinary impor- 

 T?iris1 T3 '"-r>f tance has lately appeared in the country 

 Rendered press concerning the old ruling of the De- 



Easier. partment of the Interior to the effect that 



every irrigable acre of desert entry must be 

 watered before patent is issued. This ruling has been 

 overthrown by a decision in the case of the United States 

 vs. Alonzo B. Cole, arising in the Durango, Colorado, dis- 

 trict. The decision is of unusual importance, because of 

 its bearing upon lands throughout that section. 



Assistant Secretary Pierce holds that where the settler 

 shows cultivation and irrigation of one-eighth of the land, 

 ownership of water right and delivery of water in canals 

 to the land, final proof will be accepted. The ruling is, in 

 effect, that where final proof submitted upon a desert entry 

 shows that the entryman has cultivated and irrigated at 

 least one-eighth of the land, and has constructed ditches, 

 owns a sufficient water right, has brought water to the 

 land and is prepared to turn water upon the entire tract 

 when it shall have been cleared and prepared for culti- 

 vation, he would not then be required to show further 

 that water has actually been distributed over all the irri- 

 gable land under his entry. Heretofore it has been the 

 practice of the department and all of the land offices in 

 the various states to require entrymen, in offering final 

 proof, to show that every irrigable acre within the tract 

 has been watered. 



This decision of Assistant Secretary Pierce is in line 

 with many other good moves inaugurated under the Bal- 

 linger administration of the Interior Department, and the 

 IRRIGATION AGE takes pleasure in calling the attention 

 of its many readers to the fact that Mr. Ballinger is study- 

 ing carefully to make the burden of the colonist as light 

 as possible and yet keep within safe legal limits. 



