THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1911. 



NO. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODBRN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 

 30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Old No. 112 Dearborn St. 



Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1S97, at the 

 Postofflce at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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CONTENTS. 

 Editonals 



Irrigation First, Then Population ............... 1093 



Causes of Poverty and Their Remedy .............. 1094 



The Safety of Dams Must Be Looked After ...... 1904 



The Financial Situation in the State of California. .1094 

 Our Ancient and Unsatisfactory System of Measures 

 and Weights .................................... 1095 



Knowledge Needed to Supply the Right Amount of 

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Thoughts That Come and Go. '.'.'.'.'.'.'. '.'.'.'.'. ........ !'..'! 1095 



Principal Articles and Items 



Irrigation in the Pacific Northwest ................. 1096 



The Truth About Farm Machines. . . .V v ........... 1097 



Examinations for Assistant Forest Rangers ......... 1098 



Method of Construction of W ells .................. 1099 



Data on Irrigation in Canada ...................... 1101 



Louisiana a Desirable Place for Settlers ........... 1102 



Silage and Concrete Silos ......................... 1102 



Our Underground Waters. ... ........ ... .1103 



The Influence of the Irrigation Congress in the De- 

 velopment of the West ......... ............... 1104 



Enormous Development Work ..................... 1104 



Use of Odd Lengths in Timber .................... 1104 



Reclamation Organization ..................... . ..... 1105 



National Dairy Show ........................... 1105 



The Primer of Hydraulics ......................... 1106 



A Dam That Seems in Demand .............. 1107 



Correspondence ................................... 1108 



Possibilities of the Colorado River ............... 1109 



Reclamation Notes ............................... 1110 



SuSonsT/wTntVr' Wheat GVowirs::: " ! " ! iims 

 Supreme Court Decisions ......................... 1120 



Irrigation 



p . 



, 



Then 



Population. 



According to the census something like 15,- 

 000 families have taken up irrigated farms 

 durj the , ast a , pro j ects which 



have been executed by the government. 

 This is a satisfactory and encouraging rec- 

 ord, when it is considered that this popula- 



t j on j s now res jdi n g on land that was formerly looked 

 , , c , ... , . , . , 



upon as desert and unfit for anything which under the 



magic touch of irrigation has been changed to splendidly 

 productive farms and orchards. The great increases of 

 population in the states of California, Oregon, Washing- 

 ton, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico 

 an j Arizona are due in a great measure to the progress 

 d , irri tion 3nd there is little doubt but w hat this 



increase will keep up for years to come. 



There is plenty of arid land yet to be reclaimed by 

 the irrigator and there will be homes made available for 



thousands of families more in the near future. The gov- 



. , ., 



"nment has many more projects under way and there are 



numerous private concerns which are developing big tracts 

 cf land by bringing water to it to make the rich soil' 

 capable of producing abundant crops. 



j , estimated that the crops raised last year by the 

 , , . e 



14 ' 000 famllies on government projects have a value of 

 over 20 millions of dollars, which would be an average of 

 more than 1,400 dollars per family. This is certainly a 

 good s h O wing, since many of these families are begin- 



ners and wil1 do better in the future when the * are 

 acquainted with their surrounding conditions. 



