THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIII 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1908. 



NO. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. 



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 a read regularly by all interested in this subject and ha* 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 23 yean 

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



We are publishing in this issue an article 

 A which appeared recently in the Post, of 



Homesteader. Denver, Colo., under date of February 23, 



1908. This article is signed "A Home- 

 steader," and is well worthy the perusal of everyone in- 

 terested in western development. 



Mexico 

 & Orient 

 Railway. 



Great development may be expected in 

 Texas along the line of the Kansas City, 

 Mexico & Orient Eailway. This com- 

 pany, under the management of Mr. Stil- 

 well, is pushing ahead and will do much 

 for sections of Texas Jiot reached by other lines of 

 railway. 



In this issue we are publishing an article by Mr. 

 Parker of Grandfalls (in the Pecos Valley), Texas. 

 This town ;s near where the Kansas City, Mexico & 

 Orient Eailway will cross the Pecos, and it is the in- 

 tention of the officials of this railroad to irrigate a 

 large area in that valley, by water taken from the 

 Pecos river and supplemented by a storage system fur- 

 ther up the stream towards Barstow. The canals that 

 supply water for irrigation around Grandfalls aggre- 

 gate something like one hundred miles in main canals 

 and laterals. Should the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient 

 railway people develop 40,000 or 50,000 acres on the 

 opposite side of the river it can readily be seen that 

 great benefit would come to that section as the result. 



Matter contained in our February issue 

 Metcalf's concerning "The Conservation of Our 

 Views. Water Eesources" and "The Campaign 



Against the National Land Laws," have 

 created a great deal of comment throughout the West 

 and has brought to us many letters expressing sym- 

 pathy with our views. Among them is a letter from 

 E. D. Metcalf, a prominent citizen and canal owner of 

 Buffalo, Wyoming. The article appears in our Cor- 

 respondence Department of this issue. Mr. Metcalf 

 has lived in Wyoming for many years and is a solid 

 and reputable business man whose views should have 

 considerable weight among those interested in these 

 subjects. 



Tree 



Growing 



Clubs. 



We are publishing in this issue further 

 data concerning the Federation of Tree 

 Growing Clubs of America prepared from 

 outlines offered us by Hon. H. A. Greene. 

 A great deal of interest is being mani- 

 fested by our readers throughout the country on this 

 subject. There has never before been a way suggested 

 (by which everybody, anywhere, no matter what may 

 be his surroundings), to successfully grow trees, with- 

 out much preliminary labor and discouraging results. 

 One is confronted in all the directions for growing 

 forest trees with requirements almost impossible for 

 most people. 



The most useful trees require still greater labor 

 and care than the softer and quicker growing trees, 



