THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1911. 



No. 9 



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 



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

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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. 



CONTENTS. 

 Editorial- 

 Irrigation Statistics Are a Desirable Feature 973 



The Curbing of Express Companies Necessary 974 



The Reclamation Sentiment Is Growing 974 



Water Waste Is Expensive 974 



A Very Useful Device for Leveling and Grading... 075 



The Vital Point Is No Discrimination 975 



Chips from the Thinking Cap of the Editor 975 



Principal Articles and Items 



Geology and Water Resources of the San Luis 



Valley 976 



A Campaign of Instruction ; 979 



How to Do Your Own Leveling 980 



Unique Pumping Plant to Supply Water 981 



Electricity on the Farm 982 



Some Data on Irrigation Pumping 984 



Charges for I rrigated Land 984 



Will Affect Irrigation 985 



Florida Mines Most Phosphate 985 



The Primer of Hydraulics 986 



Supreme Court Decisions 987 



Correspondence 988 



How Nature Grows Trees 989 



A Good Crop of Water . 989 



Reclamation Notes 990 



Belle-Fourche Irrigation Project . . . 992 



What Irrigation Has Done 992 



Irrigation Statistics of New Mexico 993 



Method of Irrigating for Alfalfa ...'... 994 



Water Supply of the Great Basin . 998 



Points on Alfalfa Growing in Colorado 999 



The Strawberry Valley Irrigation Tunnel 1002 



New Incorporations 1003 



The North Platte Irrigation Project. .". . .'. . .'. .' 1004 



Irrigation 

 Statistics 



By act of Congress, dated February 25, 

 1910i it i s provided that the Census Di- 

 rector provide for the collection of full 

 information concerning the location, char- 



Desirable Feature acter alul cost of irri g ation enterprises, 

 no matter whether they are national, state 

 or private concerns ; also the area of the land irrigated 

 and the prices at which land with water rights can be 

 obtained and the quantity of water used for irrigation. 



The Census Bureau has just issued a preliminary state- 

 ment for the state of Washington, comparing irrigation data 

 3< 1899 with 1909, and an abstract of this statement ap- 

 pears elsewhere in this issue. The principle of the govern- 

 ment gathering complete and reliable data bearing upon 

 this important subject is a thing very much to be desired 

 and meets, without doubt, the approval of all interested. 



It is to be hoped, however, that statistics will be issued 

 within reasonable time after the date of the reports, so 

 that the information given will be not too far back for 

 utility. The bulletin just issued by the government covers 

 the year 1909, and .as this is 1911 the data given refers 

 to a period of one and one-half years ago. However, the 

 task is a big one and if satisfactory results are expected 

 it must be conceded that time and work are essential to 

 obtain them. 



After the work of taking the Irrigation Census is fully 

 established its value will become greater from year to year 

 as the comparisons which can be drawn between the various 

 periods of the state, or between various states during the 

 same periods will be of vital importance. 



