THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1911. 



No. 4 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



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 S. 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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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 26 years 

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



The publisher of the IRRIGATION AGE is 



Open desirous of establishing permanently a 



Department correspondence department in its col- 



of umns, and with that in view suggests 



Corre- that all of our readers who have any 



spondence matter of news to contribute, or who 



may encounter difficult conditions inci- 

 dental to the work of developing an irrigation ranch, corre- 

 spond with us so that the matter may be presented in 

 type to the thousands of our readers. You will, no doubt, 

 by reading this department either be able to derive benefit 

 from the experience of others or attain thereby knowledge 

 from those who have overcome difficulties in their farming 

 operations. This department may be made not only an inter- 

 esting but an instructive one as well, and can be maintained 

 permanently only by the co-operation of our readers. 



It may interest our readers to know that 



Wonderful the circulation of the IRRIGATION A OK 



Increase has shown marked growth during the 



in past few months. There has never been 



Circulation a time in the history of this publication 



wlin new subscribers have come in so 



rapidly, nor have we ever received in the same length of time 

 so many voluntary renewals from old subscribers. 



We are publishing in this issue a few of the testimonials 

 received from our old readers which are very gratifying, in- 

 deed, to the publisher. 



It may not be out of place at this time to call to the 

 attention of our readers the fact that the advertising carried 

 in the columns of the IRRIGATION AGE is of the very highest 



quality. The publisher of this journal will not in any instance 

 accept questionable advertising and is particularly careful 

 about accepting advertising from land companies so that the 

 readers may not be misled into buying lands of questionable 

 value. 



The readers of the AGE may rely at all times upon state- 

 ments made by advertisers in its columns and in any instance 

 where the advertiser fails to make good an investigation will 

 be made by the publisher on receipt of complaint by a sub- 

 scriber. 



Much 



Indignation 

 In 

 Oregon 



There is much indignation among the 

 people of Oregon over the fact that the 

 Army Board, appointed by the Presi- 

 dent to investigate reclamation projects 

 and see that a proper disposition is made 

 of the funds (including tne $20,000,000 

 loan), was much more favorable to Idaho and Montana 

 than to Oregon. 



It is alleged that pressure or influence persuaded the 

 Army Board to ignore certain projects throughout Oregon 

 which presented features of more than ordinary merit. 



Idaho secured $7,000,000 of the lump sum and 

 Montana $8,000,000, while Oregon must content itself with 

 a paltry $925,000 from the combined fund of $45,000,000. 



There is much criticism in Oregon concerning her 

 senators, who it is claimed have not gone about the mat- 

 ter properly. Senators Borah of Idaho and Carter of 

 Montana, the best posted men in the senate on western 

 needs and irrigation in particular, were successful in land- 

 ing good plums for their respective states and the Oregon 



