THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1906. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA 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 21 yean 

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



Blazing 

 the Way. 



Irrigation is blazing the way for civiliza- 

 tion throughout the West and the trail 

 is being blazed with much more rapidity 

 than many imagine. 



More fortunes are being made in the 

 Irrigation irrigated regions of the West than any- 

 Pays. where else in America. Where irrigation 



is practiced crop failures are unknown. 

 Thousands of farmers from the Middle States have 

 gone West and amassed fortunes, in a comparatively 

 brief period. 



Irrigation transforms the wilderness into 

 Fresno a blooming garden. Not so many years 



ago Fresno, California, for example, was 

 not on the map. The territory tributary to that point 

 comprised monotonous flats that gave no promise of 

 better things. Today Fresno is the entrepot of one of 

 the most prosperous communities in the world, and irri- 

 gation wrought the transformation. 



At this time there are no less than three 

 New railway systems in the United States con- 



Railroads, templating an extension of their lines to 



the Pacific coast. Many miles of new 

 road are also being built in Oregon and Washington. 

 Need of larger facilities for handling freight and pas- 

 sengers is, of course, the cause of the extensions and 

 irrigation has developed the freight and passengers. 



If you have never traveled to the Pacific 

 Visit the coast, it will be necessary for you to go 

 West. there if you wish to become acquainted 



with the opportunities that are to be 

 found in the western wonderland. 



Two 



Amendments. 



Electors in Washington were asked to 

 vote on two constitutional amendments at 

 the recent election. One of them was 

 that the use of the waters of the State 

 for irrigation, mining, manufacturing 

 and for the removal of timber products shall be deemed 

 a public use. The other was that private property may 

 be taken under such terms, conditions and limitations 

 as shall be prescribed by the Legislature, but that just 

 compensation must be made. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE reaches a class of 

 To Reach readers that can be talked to through no 

 the Buyer. other publication. At this writing the 



West is more prosperous than any other 

 section of the country, and the indications are that this 

 will remain true for many years to come. If you are 

 a manufacturer, and make anything you wish to sell 

 west of the Missouri River, tell your story in THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE. This paper goes to both the dealer and the 

 consumer, and is the leading publication of its class in 

 the world. Ditching and excavating machines, agri- 

 cultural implements, wagons, gasoline engines, concrete 

 mixers, fencing, etc., etc., are some of the lines in which 

 our readers are particularly interested, and they are all 

 liberal buyers because they have plenty of money. 



