THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1906. 



No. 2 



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

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 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. 



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 scription to the Irrigation Age to send in remittance be- 

 fore January 1, 1907. Many thousands of our readers are 

 not perhaps aware that the sum total due us reaches a 

 large figure and if each will take the trouble to send in 

 whatever sum is due the action will be heartily appre- 

 ciated. 



Abundance of water, fertile soil, perfect 

 Opportunities, climate and excellent transportation fa- 

 cilities are among the factors that insure 

 success for the irrigationist. There are many locali- 

 ties in the West where all of these conditions are to 

 be found, and where opportunities to become wealthy 

 can be counted by the score. Have you investigated 

 any of these opportunities? 



The irrigation idea is spreading. Next 

 Irrigation summer experiments in irrigation work 

 Idea Growing, are to be made in the Willamette Val- 

 ley, the one place of all places where 

 there would seem to be no need of artificial watering 

 for it rains so much in that valley that the people who 

 live there are webfooted. Let the good work go on 

 it is only a question of time when irrigation will be 

 practiced throughout the country. 



The year 1906 will go into history as the 

 Prosperity. most prosperous one ever enjoyed by the 



American farmer. The value of farm 

 products for the year will approach near to the $7,000,- 

 000,000.00 mark, which is an increase of almost 50 per 

 cent in seven years. Farmers in the irrigation belt are 

 always prosperous- because they have no crop failures; 

 therefore they are liberal buyers, and always have the 

 money to pay for what they buy. 



You 



Should Be 

 Represented. 



Manufacturers are beginning to appre- 

 ciate the good work done by THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE in encouraging the redemp- 

 tion of millions of acres of desert land. 



Every acre of new land brought under cultivation means 



a larger demand for everything used on the farm. 



If you are not already represented in our columns we 



shall take pleasure in quoting you rates. 



Montezuma 

 Valley. 



There are some 60,000 acres of good irri- 

 gable lands in the Montezuma Valley, 

 Colo. Of this area about 18,000 acres 

 are now cultivated under a system of 

 irrigating canals approximately 125 miles in length. 

 Additional reservoirs and canals are to be constructed, 

 and the remainder of these desirable lands are to be 

 brought under cultivation at no distant day. 



The National Federation of Water Users 

 National has been organized for the purpose of pro- 



Federation of moting co-operation between the various 

 Water Users, water users' associations and the United 



States Eeclamation Service. Regular 

 meetings are to be held annually at the same time and 

 place the National Irrigation Congress convenes. The 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 B. E. Brownson, president, Williston, N. D.; H. B. 

 Holt, first vice-president, Las Cruces, N. M.; A. J. 

 Splawn, second vice-president, North Yakima, Wash.; 

 H. T. Irwin, third vice-president, Echo, Ore. 



