THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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ate, since wa:er previously appropriated by another 

 is no longer available for a subsequent appropriator. 

 The extent of tiie appropriation is limited by the bene- 

 ficial use to which the water can be applied. 



"The actual amount of water that may be appro- 

 priated for irrigation, therefore, is the amount that the 

 land owner ca-.i and does actually use in the necessary 

 and economical irrigation of his land for cultivation. 

 This much and no more may he have; and this much 

 he may only have wnen there is sufficient water avail- 

 able to supply rirst those prior in date of appropriation. 

 The fundamental principle in the doctrine of appro- 

 priation of the normal flow of water in a stream for 

 irrigation is its application by the land owner to the 

 land for a beneficial use. The right to appropriate 

 is a right that belongs to the land owner, but the 

 water appropriated is appropriated for the land, and 

 when so appropriated its use belongs to the land and 

 not to the appropriator. The method of diversion 

 from the river and the means of carriage of the water 

 to the land ; s immaterial in the establishment or 

 maintenance of the right; it may be done by the indi- 

 vidual appropriator or by an association of individual 

 appropriators, or by a canal company, or oy any per- 

 son or corporation; and the means ot carriage or the 

 point of diversion from the river may be changed from 

 time to time to suit altered conditions without impair- 

 ing the right of appropriation already made, provided 

 prior rights of others are not interfered with. There 

 being in this Territory no private property in water, 

 but water beins; a public property subject to the uses 

 before defined, in so diverting and carrying the water 

 such person, association or corporation acts merely 

 as the agent of the appropriator and acquires no right 

 of appropriation to the water itself, and no rights as 

 against the appropriation made to the land, except a 

 right of proper compensation for such diversion and 

 carriage." 



ATLANTIC CITY WANTS THE CONGRESS. 



A NEW candidate for the Nineteenth National Irriga- 

 " tion Congress for the year 1911 has entered the field 

 Atlantic City. 



To this pleasure resort of the country, this seaside 

 center, has come the word, evidently, of the progress and 

 distinction of the National Irrigation Congress, and it 

 wants it. In fact, it says so in no uncertain manner to 

 Secretary Hooker of the Eighteenth National Irrigation 

 Congress. 



The Atlantic City publicity bureau is the agency that 

 is writing Secretary Hooker, and its secretary-director, 

 George S. Lenhart, says in a recent letter: 



"We wish to obtain your next convention for Atlantic 

 City, and trust that, at the proper time and place, you will 

 take favorable action on this, our hearty invitation. Trans- 

 portation can be arranged for at as low rates as any point 

 in the country. We would have no trouble whatever in 

 taking the best care of the delegates who attend your 

 convention, and this bureau will give you all possible 

 assistance desired without any expense to you for its 

 services. 



"This invitation is extended not only by the bureau 

 of publicity but also on behalf of the Atlantic City board 

 of trade, the Atlantic City Hotelmen's association, and 

 the Atlantic City Business League." 



This is the first time an invitation has come from 

 Atlantic City for the sessions of the Irrigation Congress, 

 and the fact that so many Eastern towns are asking for 

 the honor of entertaining it shows the growing importance 

 of the great organization. 



The entry of Atlantic City makes nine aspirants for 

 next year's congress. These are: 



San Francisco, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, St. 

 Joseph. Milwaukee, Charleston, Rochester, some Texas 

 town to be presented by the solid Texas delegation at 

 Pueblo, and Atlantic City. 



"COLORADO, THE HOST." 



IJXDER the above caption of Secretary R. H. Faxon, 



of the Board of Control of the Eighteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress, Pueblo, September 26-30, has added 

 another to his rapidly-growing list of little booklets and 

 brochures, which he is circulating over the country by 

 the tens of thousands. It follows: 



"The State of Colorado will entertain at Pueblo, its 

 second city in size, September 26-30, 1910, the greatest 

 gathering ever held within its borders, or within the 

 West. 



"This is the Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress. 



"Several thousand regularly-accredited delegates and 

 interested visitors are expected from every state in the 

 West and from many of the Eastern and Southern states, 

 which are recognizing the great work of this congress. 



"For the National Irrigation Congress is the greatest 

 development agency in the country. 



"It pointed the way to the reclamation act of June 

 17, 1902, resulting in 25 government projects, at a cost of 

 50 millions of dollars, and opening up more than 3 million 

 acres of arid lands to settlement. 



"It is the practical agency of the country in forestry 

 and conservation. 



"It has fostered the now great beet industry from 

 struggling infancy to a point where the country confi- 

 dently expects shortly to produce its own sugar consump- 

 tion, and more than that to become a sugar-exporting 

 nation. 



"It is the originator of the home-making policy that 

 is leading thousands of intelligent men 'back to the land'; 

 provoking increased production; advocating scientific agri- 

 culture; and thereby decreasing the cost of living, a na- 

 tional problem. 



"It is responsible for a better class of citizenship. 



"It has taken the lead in soil-conservation. 



"The foreign representation at the Pueblo congress 

 will be large. It is now thought that from 30 to 40 for- 

 eign representatives from foreign countries will attend 

 the congress. These will include diplomatists, foreign 

 officials, engineers, and agriculturists and irrigationists. 



"A great exposition of pumping machinery, water- 

 raising and water-applying devices, and of modern irri- 

 gation methods, will be held on a large tract of ground 

 immediately adjoining Mineral Palace Park, where the 

 congress will be held. 



"It is peculiarly significant and important that the 

 greatest sessions of this great organization will be held 

 in the State of Colorado. This state has Z 1 /? million acres 

 of irrigated land; has 20,000 miles of irrigation canals 

 and laterals; raised 7 million dollars of apples under irri- 

 gation in 1909; has a single county that raises a million 

 dollars worth of cantaloupes each year, and is the particu- 

 lar home of scientific, intensive agriculture under irriga- 

 tion. 



"Irrigation is rapidly changing Colorado from its 

 former significance as merely a mineral and industrial state 

 into one of the foremost agricultural states of the Union; 

 and the marvelous development of the past two years, 

 with the great number of irrigation projects, give ex- 

 ceptional promise to the state's enhanced position agri- 

 culturally and horticulturally by the end of the present 

 year. 



"Colorado has several wonderful sections, such as the 

 northern district, where irrigation was first practiced in 

 the state and which has successfully and intelligently 

 solved all the problems of irrigation; the famous Western 

 Slope with its marvelous accomplishments and possibilities 

 in fruit; the newly-developed San Luis Valley, rich and 

 promising: the northwestern section with its bountiful 

 gifts of nature in the way of coal and other minerals; 

 eastern Colorado with successful dry-farming in practice 

 where water cannot be obtained for irrigation; and the 

 rich Arkansas Valley, of which Pueblo, the congress city, 

 is the capital, with its sweep of 275 miles from Canon City 

 to Garden City, Kansas, under irrigation, and its ]/2 million 

 acres of fertile watered lands, its seven beet mills and its 

 vast alfalfa fields." 



