THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIII 



CHICAGO; JULY, 1908. 



No. 9 



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 23 yean 

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



We are presenting in this issue an article 

 Belle Fourche prepared by the editor on. the Belle 

 Project Fourche irrigation project in South 



Dakota. This territory was gone over 

 carefully by the writer in company with the engineer 

 in charge, Mr. Eaymond F. Walter. As will be seen 

 from the article a lot of nice photographs were taken, 

 and this is perhaps the most complete description of 

 this project which has ever appeared in print. It will 

 prove particularly interesting to those of our readers 

 who are contemplating changing their location and are 

 desirous of securing correct information concerning 

 the possibilities of building a home in the West. It 

 is our intention to cover in a similar manner, from 

 time to time, each of the government projects, fully 

 describing and illustrating them so that our readers 

 may be able to form a clear idea of what is to be en- 

 countered in establishing a home under any one of 

 them, and we will aim to give complete data concern- 

 ing crops suitable for the different areas described. 



Word reaches us that work is progressing 

 Albuquerque finely in Albuquerque along the line of 

 Congress. preparation far the National Irrigation 



Congress which is to be held in that city 

 during the last days of September of this year. An 

 appropriation of $30,000 was secured from Congress, 

 and it is stated that the citizens of Albuquerque have 

 put up $20,000 with which to erect a fine convention 



hall, and a similar amount has been contributed by 

 citizens throughout the territory so that about $75,000 

 will eventually be expended to entertain the congress 

 and exploit the resources of that rapidly developing 

 territory. Some question has been raised as to the 

 method of advertising the congress, but we are in- 

 formed that the committee has recently been giving 

 out some very attractive literature, and the city of 

 Albuquerque has sent out broadcast a finely illustrated 

 book which should be in the hands of every one who 

 is interested in Western or Southwestern development. 

 A copy of this book and other literature may be se- 

 cured by addressing the publicity department of the 

 Irrigation Congress, Albuquerque, N. M. 



Already 

 Selected. 



Word comes to us from Washington that 

 Mr. Taft, the Republican Candidate for 

 President, has already decided on two 

 men for cabinet positions, viz: James 

 Rudolph Garfield to succeed himself as Secretary of 

 the Interior and Gifford Pinchot who will be promoted 

 from chief of the Forestry Division to the position of 

 Secretary of Agriculture. If this is true the move 

 was, no doubt, suggested by President Roosevelt, who 

 has, as is well known, a strong liking for both of these 

 gentlemen. There will, no doubt, be a very decided 

 opposition in the Senate as well as the House to the 

 confirmation of Gifford Pinchot as Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, but judging from the manner in which Presi- 



