THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1911. 



No. 5 



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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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 part* of the world. The Irrigation Age is 26 years 

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



It is claimed to be a serious fault of the 

 National American people that the idle rich waste 



Extravagance their money in Europe. It is apparent 

 and Waste that the amount of American capital spent 



a Menace. abroad every year exceeds the average 



balance of trade between this continent and 

 Europe. America does very well when our exports are three 

 hundred millions over the imports. Such a balance in our 

 favor gives us new capital and is sufficient to put new vi- 

 tality into many industries. But what is gained to the nation 

 if the balance of trade is in our favor to the extent of a 

 third or a half billion and the moneyed classes turn round and 

 spend as much or more in a season of extravagant living in 

 foreign countries? 



It is not the cost of travel at which financiers complain 

 but rather the expenditure of vast sums for merchandise in 

 Paris and London which ought to be circulated in the United 

 States in the country where the money is gained. In addi- 

 tion to this foolish buying there is much waste of American 

 wealth in ultra-extravagant not to say riotous living. When 

 we come to estimate this waste together with the large 

 sum which annually is sent abroad by foreign-born laborers 

 in this country who intend ultimately to return to their native 

 land and live, it becomes apparent that the United States is 

 suffering under different kinds of unfairness and injustice. 



A nation can waste its sprplus just as an individual can 

 and must suffer in something the same way. A sure method 

 to produce hard times is to let the balance of trade turn 

 against us and logically a sure way to produce good times is 

 to keep drawing more money from the old world than our 

 people spend abroad. 



.Mr. Edmund T. Perk'ns, Managing Di- 

 Nineteenth rector of the National Irrigation Congress, 



National which will be held here in December of 



Irrigation this year, has been active in stirring up an 



Congress. interest in the movement and several 



luncheons and meetings of the Board ot 

 Control have been held; that held at the University Club 

 February 24th, being the most largely attended of any 

 since the movement began. 



Mr. Perkins, who was formerly engineer in charge of 

 the transportation and purchasing office of the United States 

 Reclamation Service in Chicago, gathered during his ten 

 y?ars in office much information valuable to the merchants 

 and manufacturers of Chicago as to the possible results from 

 extended irrigation development of the west. 



He attempted, at the luncheon, to show how, practically 

 10 per cent of all the money invested in western development 

 eventually finds it way back to Chicago. 



The members in attendance were much interested in the 

 subject and a, general movement will now be made to raise 

 funds for the entertainment of the delegates to this Con- 

 gress. 



The IRRIGATION AGE will publish in a later issue a com- 

 plete list of all of the officers of the Congress, as well as the 

 local Board of Control. 



Mr. Perkins explained to those in attendance the duties 

 of the Board of Control and the importance of membership 

 in the Board. 



It is presumed that active work will be started at once 

 to raise funds for carrying on the work of the Congress. 



