THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1910. 



No. 8 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



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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- 

 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. 



Irrigation 

 Age Has 

 Prosperous 

 Year. 



The IRRIGATION ACE is desirous of calling the 

 attention of its readers to the fact that its 

 advertising patronage has nearly doubled 

 within the past twelve months. The advertis- 

 ing record to date of the IRRIGATION AGE, the 

 Official Organ of the National Irrigation 

 Congress, is as follows: April, 1909, there were carried in 

 its columns 5,880 lines ; in April, 1910, this had been increased 

 to 10,766 lines, showing an increase of nearly 5,000 lines in 

 one year. 



Of this increase, 1,248 lines represent the expansion of old 

 advertisers. This is a significant fact, and should be given 

 careful consideration by wise investors in advertising space. 



The IRRIGATION AGE grows because it reaches the best 

 buying public in the world today the irrigation farmer. Sure 

 of water, sure of crops, sure of revenue from his land, he 

 spends his money for what he needs, and if you have anything 

 to sell him, whether it be agricultural implements, accessory 

 lines or general household necessities, the AGE will reach an 

 army of buyers. 



Laterals 

 Filled; 

 Burley 

 Rejoices. 



W.iter having finally been turned into the lat- 

 erals at Burley, Idaho, by the Reclamation 

 Service, the whole territory is rejoicing. 

 People of Burley are to be congratulated that 

 they have at last secured water for their land, 

 but the name of Burley will always recall to 

 mind a distinct case of mistreatment by some of the govern- 

 ment officials of people who entered on the land near that 

 townsite in tne early days of governmental activity in that 

 vicinity. A million of dollars was spent in building a dam 

 across Snake River, which promised the distribution of thou- 

 sands of acre feet of water for land below it. 



Many of the active men who went into the Burley coun- 

 try in the early days were forced to retire after it was 

 learned that there was no provision made for the distribution 

 of water upon this tract. 



The editor of this journal visited Burley at one time 

 when a meeting was held to discuss the subject with a gov- 

 ernment official, who has since retired, and the treatment 

 given settlers at that time was instrumental in turning them 

 against the government and governmental methods in 

 handling large projects. Settlers who have remained on the 

 Burley tract are to be congratulated, not only for their pa- 

 tience, but good judgment, as they will no doubt all do well 

 under the new system and distribution of water. 



Enemies 

 Continue 

 Abusive 

 Campaign. 



Interests which have been opposing Secretary 

 Ballinger are still at work through the va- 

 rious press bureaus in Washington, circulat- 

 ing the statement that the Secretary will re- 

 sign, as soon as the investigating committee 

 reports. This is the usual Pinchot-Gar- 

 field policy, and while these two publicists are not as bold as 

 they were under the Roosevelt regime, they are still active, 

 and trying in devious ways to undermine and discredit the 

 present administration. It is an open secret that both Gar- 

 field and Pinchot, and even some of the reclamation offi- 

 cials, are working to injure the president, in the "third term" 

 interests of Colonel Roosevelt. If these men were wise they 

 would keep their fingers out of this pie.^ They will do 

 Colonel Roosevelt more harm than good before they are 

 through with it, and they will do little injury to President 

 Taft. 



The history of his administration has yet to be written, 

 and the AGE predicts some wonderful things for President 



