THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1907. 



NO. 10 



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 22 yean 

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



In the September issue THE IRRIGATION 

 Feature AGE will begin the publication of a series 



Articles. of six or more articles dealing with the 



detail work, the results, the possibilities, 

 the hardships and vicissitudes and individual experience 

 in irrigation farming on a small scale. There has been 

 ample exploitation of irrigation as a factor in develop- 

 ment of the West and its part in the reclamation of arid 

 lands, and there are still features of it which have 

 been untouched by editorial pen and will later do their 

 part in reclamation history; but we are going to re- 

 trace our steps, if you please, and get in touch with the 

 man who is IP a king his living, who is working out his 

 destiny, <>n the lands which the AGE, together with other 

 publications, has "boosted" for years. The readers of 

 this periodical have learned of what private promoters 

 and the government have done on irrigation projects; 

 now we propose to bring them into contact with the 

 thousands who have followed in the wake of the govern- 

 ment and the promoters, to have them meet the over- 

 worked but happy "man with the hoe." To use a homely 

 parallel, we have had the lesson reading and the ser- 

 mon; it is time for the "experience" portion of this 

 irrigation meeting and "testimonies" are in order. Our 

 plan as outlined, is this: A special correspondent will 

 be sent into a certain district for a period of months 

 and in a series of articles, written by one who is in no 

 wav an expert on irrigation matters, give a brief out- 

 line of the history of the region, its adaptability to cer- 

 tain crops, its water supply and kindred matters and 

 then write of the results as obtained by the people now 

 cultivating the lands. Our first district will be that 



in the vicinity of Denver and the same treatment will 

 be accorded other districts in turn. It is our aim to 

 make these articles simple, accurate and readable in an 

 effort to exploit and develop the possibilities of the ag- 

 ricultural West. 



Another 



Wyoming 



Project. 



The Eden, Wyo., Irrigation and Land 

 Company has obtained title from the state 

 of Wyoming to the waters of the Big 

 Sandy river, the Little Sandy river, 

 ^. . the New Fork river and some other 



smaller streams, amounting in all to sufficient 

 water to irrigate 206,000 acres of land. There 

 have been segregated, under the Carey act, 60,000 acres 

 and the segregation of 40,000 more-is about completed. 

 This land is adjacent to 100,000 acres that can be ob- 

 tained at any time by the company, as it commands the 

 water supply to it. The company owns a natural reser- 

 voir sufficient to irrigate 20,000 acres and the United 

 States government has granted the corporation a natural 

 reservoir known as the Lecky Basin, into which there are 

 five streams of water constantly flowing. The basin 

 holds sufficient water to irrigate 60,000 acres and the 

 canal system, the right-of-way, survey, etc., are the prop- 

 erty of the company. 



Did the reclamation service officials make 

 Yuma Valley ^ se representations to the settlers of 

 Up in Arms. Yuma valley in order to secure signatures 



to mortgages of their homes to the gov- 

 ernment for an unknown amount? This is the basis 

 of a petition signed by all of the officers of the Yuma 

 Valley Water Users' Association and others for a meet- 



