THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIII 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1907. 



NO. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



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 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 22 years 

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



THE IRRIGATION AGE will publish for the 

 Court first time in this issue, a compilation of 



Decisions. Superior Court decisions on Irrigation 



Litigation, and this department will be 

 continued regularly in this journal from now on. Work 

 of this character entails considerable research and this 

 department has been contemplated for some time past; 

 it is our impression that the information furnished will 

 be of great value to our readers. 



New 

 Invention. 



W. H. Dougherty, of Pocatello, Idaho, is 

 the inventor of a water wheel for irriga- 

 tion, and has recently received papers is- 

 suing to him a patent on same. 

 The wheel is designed for the lifting of water and 

 consists of a frame carrying two fan wheels on each 

 side, geared to an endless belt of buckets operating on a 

 square shaft. The paddles of the fan wheels are con- 

 cave, affording the greatest possible resistance to the 

 stream. On the model recently shown by Mr. Dough- 

 erty, there are twenty buckets. Two are always sub- 

 merged at the same time, and two are in a position of 

 discharging water, so that really the wheel has but 

 seven loaded buckets to raise at one time. 



Mr. Dougherty estimates that he can construct a 

 larger wheel at a 'cost of about $300, with a capacity 

 in a two-mile current of 1,000 gallons of water per 

 minute. The device is compact and very simple, and 

 will, no doubt, come into general use where wheels of 

 that character mav be used. 



Mead in 

 Australia. 



In a recent letter from one of the lead- 

 ing firms in an agricultural line at Mel- 

 bourne, Australia, that of Langwill Broth- 

 ers & Davies, they call attention to the 

 fact that the people of that country are all pleased that 

 they have secured the services of Mr. Elwood Mead, who 

 recently left this country to look after the irrigation 

 affairs of Australia. They also state that he has a big 

 job in front of him, but feel that they have secured a 

 good man, to our National loss, and advise that when a 

 government has the services of a good man they should 

 retain him. 



It will be interesting to watch the development of 

 irrigation in Australia under the guidance of Mr. Mead, 

 and we hope some time soon to receive information from 

 him concerning his work in that country. 



We are publishing elsewhere in this 

 Van Dyke of issue an article by Mr. T. S. Van Dyke, of 

 California. Daggett, California, a well-known writer 



on irrigation. Mr. Van Dyke takes up the 

 subject discussed by Professor Fortier in our October 

 issue on the matter of colonizing our fast developing ir- 

 rigation areas in the west. The article by Mr. Van 

 Dyke will prove highly interesting to those interested 

 in the subject of colonization, and his description of 

 farming on his home place in California may give valua- 

 ble information to those who are similarly situated. 



Mr. Van Dyke is generally recognized as one of the 

 best posted men along irrigation lines in the United 



