THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1907. 



No. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



With which is Merged 



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 22 yean 

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



It may interest our readers to know that 

 Possibilities THE I KRIGATION AGE contemplates pre- 

 for . . ... i , , .,, 



Homemakine P arln g a series of articles which will ap- 

 pear during the summer of 1907, which 

 will clearly illustrate the posibilities for home-making 

 in the territory adjacent to the lines of the new Trans- 

 Continental Railways, which are building westward to 

 the Pacific Coast. 



The editor of THE IRRIGATION AGE intends to cover 

 a good part of the territory along the projected lines 

 of the roads through Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. The first of this series of articles 

 will treat of the territory along the line of the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in Montana, in what 

 is known as the Musselshell Country. This should be 

 interesting reading for those who contemplate making 

 a home in the western country, and our aim will be to 

 give such information as will enable settlers to determine 

 clearly, before moving, what expense is necessary, the 

 character of the soil, what crops may be made to pro- 

 duce best results, and a lot of other information along 

 a line which will start the prospective settler right. 

 These articles will be finely illustrated and it is 

 hoped that they may be of considerable benefit to 

 home-seekers. 



We will be glad to send sample copies containing 

 these articles to any names which our readers may 

 choose to send us. We would prefer to send them to 

 people who contemplate moving into the West, so they 

 may derive whatever benefit is to be had from informa- 

 tion of this character. Please send us in names of those 

 of your friends who are talking of going West, and we 

 will be glad to mail copies of such issues to them as 



contain matter which will asist them in selecting a 

 location. 



We will esteem it a favor if our readers will assist 

 us in the matter of sending in names of friends who 

 would be interested in these special issues. 



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After It. 



Beginning with our March issue, THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE will make a general cam- 

 paign among manufacturers and other ad- 

 vertisers to induce them to take ad- 

 vantage of the field offered by its growing circulation 

 to develop trade throughout the irrigated West, and as 

 this issue will go forward to many manufacturers and 

 others who are looking for trade in the West, and who 

 have not fully understood the situation which exists 

 throughout that great territory being reclaimed from 

 desert lands, we take this means of presenting a few 

 facts, which it will be well for advertisers to bear in 

 mind when reaching out for this trade. 



It is, perhaps, not generally known that work is 

 underway to reclaim fully ten million acres of land 

 heretofore valueless sagebrush desert. When the fact is 

 taken into consideration that all of this land is capable 

 of producing net for the farmer from $15 to $500 an 

 acre per annum, the producing power of the farmer may 

 be easily estimated. It is a simple matter to figure what 

 a profit of $15 per acre on one million acres means to 

 people who are suplying goods to the man who works 

 a given area, and when that is multiplied by ten (our 

 readers should understand that this is a low estimate 

 per acre), some fair conception of the purchasing power 

 of this money may be obtained. 



