THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1907. 



NO. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



IRRIGATION AGE COMPANY, 

 PUBLISHERS, 



112 Dearborn Street, 



CHICAGO 



Entered at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., as Second-Class Matter. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



W. J. ANDERSON .. G. L. SHUMWAY 



Associate Editors 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



"The Primer of Irrigation" is now ready for delivery. Price, 

 $2.00. If ordered in connection with subscription, the price is $1.50. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 



To United States Subscribers, Postage Paid fl.OO 



To Canada and Mexico 1.00 



All Other Foreign Countries, 1.50 



In forwarding remittances please do not send checks on local bank*. 

 Send either postomce or express money order or Chicago or New York 

 draft. 



Official organ of the American Irrigation Federation. 

 Office of the Secretary, 309 Boyce Building, Chicago. 



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. 



The editor of IRRIGATION AGE returned 

 Irrigation recently from an extended visit at Sacra- 

 Congress, mento, Cal., and other points in that de- 

 lightful state, where a study was made 

 of some of the features of exploiting the Fifteenth Na- 

 tional Irrigation Congress, to be held in the Queen City 

 of the Sacramento Valley during the week beginning 

 September 2. 



During his stay in Sacramento, and under the 

 guidance of Mr. W. A. Beard, he had the pleasure of 

 meeting all of the members of the Local Board of 

 Control, and attended a meeting in that city on April 

 25, which was called by that board. There were in the 

 attendance of this meeting seventy-two representative 

 men of the state of California, and speeches were made 

 by Governor Gillett, J. A. Filcher, Hon. George A. 

 Peltier, chairman of the Board of Control; Congress- 

 man J. C. Needham, Dr. Elwood Mead of the Office of 

 Experiment Stations, Washington, D. C., and Mr. W. 

 A. Beard executive officer of the Local Board of Con- 

 trol, and chairman of the executive committee of the 

 National Irrigation Congress. 



The meeting was a success in every way, and a 

 fund of $50,000 was guaranteed by those present, who 

 represented the various sections of California, which 

 is to be used in advertising the congress and in the en- 

 tertainment of those who attend as delegates. 



In this connection it may not be out place to say 

 that Messrs. Peltier and W. A. Beard are doing splen- 

 did work in the interests of the congrebs, and it is the 

 opinion of those who are acquainted with the situation 



that at least three thousand delegates will be in attend- 

 ance at the Fifteenth Congress, and that nearly ten 

 thousand visitors will be attracted to Sacramento and 

 California, as a result of the thorough system of ad- 

 vertising which is contemplated and is being carried 

 out by the Board of Control. 



Mr. George A. Peltier, chairman of the Local 

 Board, is a wonderfully active man and is taking a deep 

 interest in this work he is one of the prominent men 

 of the state of California and is a leader in the Sac- 

 ramento Valley, and it is safe to say that through the 

 efforts of himself and Mr. Beard the Sacramento Val- 

 ley and California generally will be better advertised 

 through the medium of this congress than ever before. 

 We are publishing elsewhere in this issue an article 

 on the congress prepared by Mr. W. A. Beard. 



"Pinchoff" 

 Pinchot. 



One of our western readers who has been 

 perusing Mr. Shumway's notes is prompt- 

 ed to communicate with us and furnish 

 a bit of information as to a custom in his 

 neck of the woods apropos to the subject of Shumway's 

 observations. He states that they dub the "Secretary 

 of State of the Kitchen Cabinet" "Pinchoff," in view 

 of his propensity for incessantly pinching off portions 

 of the public domain. 



Our correspondent states "forest reserve discussions 

 are of common occurrence in his section of the country, 

 and that "Dr. Pinchoff" is our bete noir. That is the 

 name used to frighten children with by thoughtless par- 

 ents, and is synonymous with any old sort of evil thing, 

 pest or plague." Continuing, our correspondent states: 



