THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1910. 



No. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALB 



D. H. ANDERSON 

 PUBLISHER, 



112 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1897, at the 

 Postofflce at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 187J. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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 Office of the Secretary, 212 Boyce Building, Chicago. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age it 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 ha* 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 26 years 

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



The Bureau of Statistics in the State of 

 Interesting Washington has issued an important 



Statistics pamphlet on the subject of irrigation. A 



on State's special feature of the pamphlet is a chap- 



Irrigation. ter devoted to irrigation in western 



Washington. The lands in Challam 

 county, which are now being irrigated, are described in 

 detail and the possibilities of future development are 

 plainly set forth. Pierce county, where the prairie lands 

 south of Tacoma are being developed under irrigation, is 

 also given generous space and it will no doubt be a great 

 surprise to many people to learn something of the possi- 

 bilities of those lands when developed under irrigation. 



A particularly interesting feature is found in a large 

 number of reports secured from individual farmers and* 

 fruit growers. The experiences of these men are presented 

 over their signatures, showing the various methods by 

 which a living may be gained on orchard lands before 

 fruit trees come into bearing. A great many also submit 

 reports showing, for a given season, the results obtained 

 from their land and the net profits arising from the sale 

 of their products. There are suggestions in this for other 

 state officials. 



Every citizen who loves fair play will re- 

 High Tribute joke in the splendid tribute which came to 

 Comes With Secretary Ballinger in connection with the 

 Ballinger's congressional report which exonerates him 



Exoneration. from fraudulent or improper action in the 



conduct of his great office. The report was 

 written by Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota and was 

 signed by Senator Root of New York and a majority of the 



investigating committee. It is needless to say that men like 

 Senators Nelson and Root could not be induced to make a 

 dishonest report either. for or against an accused official, even 

 one of their personal friends. 



Nelson and Root are adherents of the Roosevelt ele- 

 ment in the Republican party and hence would be apt to 

 sympathize with Gifford Pinchot, former head of the for- 

 estry bureau, whom President Taft ousted on account of 

 insolence, insubordination and general misconduct. 

 Pinchot and two or three other discredited employes of 

 the government started the war on Secretary Ballinger 

 in connection with coal land entries in Alaska and cer- 

 tain questions of conservation, in which matters it was 

 charged he had been dishonest as well as remiss in his 

 duty as Secretary of the Interior. Here is the gist of the 



report to Congress : 



"No improper conduct on Secretary Ballinger's part has been shown 

 nor any action by him not within the sound discretion of the t 

 of the Interior Department in the faithful performance of his duty. 



"He is not an enemy of, nor hostile to, a reasonable and judicious 

 policy of conservation, and no ground whatever has been shown justify- 

 ing the opinion that he is not a faithful and efficient public officer. 

 This is vastly different from the tone of the many 

 newspapers of Republican complexion which have for 

 months been demanding the secretary's resignation. 

 President Taft was determined to give Ballinger a square 

 deal and has shown himself strong enough to stand up 

 against the bitter attacks on the cabinet officer, 

 result, after a long and thorough investigation, JUSttf 

 the president's manly action. It also reflects the infamy 

 of many prominent American journals which tried, c 

 demned and all but executed Secretary Ballinger on the 



