THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXII 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1907. 



NO. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



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In our November issue we will present to 

 Prof. Larkin. our readers an article by Prof. E. Larkin, 



Director of Lowe Observatory, California. 

 This article will treat of the scientific character of the 

 papers presented at the National Irrigation Congress 

 and will be found highly interesting. 



The first opening of land under the Carey 

 Colorado's act in Colorado occurred September 5, 

 First Carey when the Little Snake Eiver valley, in 

 Act Opening. Eoutt county, was thrown open. The 



area comprises some 50,000 acres, which 

 will be watered by a canal dug by the Routt County 

 Development Company of Denver. The land itself was 

 sold at fifty cents an acre and the water right went 

 at $25.00 an acre, insuring the holders of titles one 

 cubic foot of water per second for each eighty acres. A 

 payment of five dollars down was required on the water 

 right, while the balance ran over a term of years at six 

 per cent. Each right includes a share in the Little 

 Snake River Canal system, a canal sixty-five miles long, 

 with a re-inforcing reservoir of 35,000 acre feet capac- 

 ity. When the water rights are all sold out the canal 

 system will be turned over to the settlers. The altitude 

 of the valley varies from 5,400 to 6,200 feet, and the 

 soil is red, sandy loam. Work on the canal is being 

 rushed and will be pushed to completion before many_ 

 months. Several Colorado railroads are planning to 

 extend their lines into the district. 



Our cousins, the Canadians, who are call- 

 ing so urgently to us to come and settle in 

 western Canada to grow wheat, and who 

 point us so frequently, to the large average 

 per acre which they secure, from 25 to 35 

 bushels, were doubtless interested to read in last month's 

 IRRIGATION AGE of a crop of 58 bushels of wheat per 

 acre raised by a farmer near Fort Collins, Colo. 



58 Bushels of 

 Wheat Per 

 Acre. 



We believe that the time is not far dis- 

 Sub-Irriga- tant when tile sub-irrigation will be one 

 tion by Tile, of the phases of the irrigation problem 



with which engineers will have to deal. 

 In the more thickly populated sections of the irrigated 

 regions the adoption of tile sub-irrigation seems inevita- 

 ble. These sections are becoming more generally set- 

 tled each year, and private enterprise and the Reclama- 

 tion Service are meeting the demand for additional 

 water made necessary by this influx by the building of 

 reservoirs for conserving the supply of flood water for 

 application in time of need. Notwithstanding this prep- 

 aration for the future there will doubtless come a season 

 when the number of water users will deplete even the 

 storage water supply. It is to forestall that time that 

 tile sub-irrigation must sooner or later be gotten under 

 way. The process is as yet only in the experimental 

 stage, but even so far as it has gone it has shown that 

 there is a great saving in the amount of water used. 

 And before many years we believe that many of the 

 projects to be constructed will be built something like 

 city water mains, the waror being run through pipe. 



