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THE IERIGATION AGE. 



Combination Headgate 

 and Measuring Device. 



The belief that Capital and Labor, that Employer and 

 Employee, that Manufacturer and Consumer, that Home Office 

 and Agent, that the House and the Salesman on the road 

 should get together and stay together in a closer and more 

 intelligent manner than ever before, and that all "Big Busi- 

 ness" of the future should mean "Big Business" for all con- 

 cerned, and not merely for the company itself, was the principle 

 upon which this company was founded; and a summary of the 

 results achieved in its short existence up to the present will 

 show how well founded was that belief. 



Loyalty to employer is a phrase familiar to all; but loyalty 

 to the employee, while not so much in vogue, is just as 

 essential to rapid progress along substantial lines. 



On August 6th, 1911, the 1RRIGATORS SUPPLY CO. 



was granted, by the great commonwealth of Montana, a charter 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. Loyalty to its agents and 

 employees made it imperative to increase that capital stock to 

 $50,000, v.'Hch was done on October 3d. And today, January 

 1st, 1912, we are arranging for a subsidiary company in the 

 state of Washington, to take care of our business in that state. 

 In two short months this same "loyalty to agents" has given 

 us, in the 1 state of Montana, four Agency Directors, as good 

 traveling salesmen as ever slung a grip. Triey are Al, high- 

 class gentlemen, prosperous and happy; and, through their 

 untiring work and honest and intelligent manner of presenting 

 our proposition, we now have thirty agents, selected from 

 Montana's best business men, who, in turn, are preaching a 

 uniform and equitable system of measuring water by the use 

 of our COMBINATION HEADGATE AND MEASURING 

 DEVICE. 



At times we have felt inclined to the belief that the demand 

 for the device itself was the cause of our rapid growth; but, 

 with any other system or method than loyalty to the employee, 

 we could not have covered the territory with such a sales 

 force in so short a time, no matter what the demand or what 

 the article we had to sell. So we are going to continue our 

 plan with this as our slogan, "Loyalty to the Employee," and 

 make each man a part of the great machine for selling our 

 COMBINATION HEADGATE AND MEASURING DEVICE. 



Although our device is approved by the best authorities of 

 the state; although it has the endorsement of U. S. Senators 

 and U. S. Surveyors, general judges and engineers; even 

 though the judges of the courts recommend it, and some even 

 require its use; and though it has the praise of our 800 

 Montana farmers who are using it, we find loyalty to the 

 employee the most important factor in distribution yet dis- 

 covered and recommend it to all employers, whether of one 

 man or one million men. 



If you are interested in, or troubled about, the measurement 

 of water; or if this subject is causing trouble in your district, 

 ami you wish to be instrumental in abolishing the trouble, 

 write, wire or 'phone the 



U. S. Irrigators' Supply Co. 



Montana Block, Missoula, Montana 



in 1910 was $23.69, as compared with $6.18 in 1899, an in- 

 crease of $17.51, or 283.3 per cent. 



The average annual cost per acre of operation and 

 maintenance in 1909 was 64 cents, against 23 cents in 1899, 

 an increase of 178.3 per cent, showing that the newer 

 works are not only more costly in construction, but more 

 expensive to operate and maintain. 



The acreage irrigated in 1909 has been classified ac- 

 cording to the state and federal laws under which the 

 works were built or are being operated, as follows: United 

 States Reclamation Service (act of Congress, June 17, 

 1902), 5,613 acres, or 8.9 per cent of the total; United 

 States Indian Service (various acts of Congress), 50 acres, 

 or 0.1 per cent; cooperative enterprises, 13,601 acres, or 

 21.5 per cent; enterprises supplying water for hire, 6,300 

 acres, or 10 per cent; independent and partnership enter- 

 prises, 37,684 acres, or 59.6 per cent. No land was irri- 

 gated by Carey Act enterprises or irrigation districts. Un- 

 der the act of June 17, 1902, the works built by the 

 United States Reclamation Service are to be turned over 

 to the water users. Including these, 90 per cent of the 

 land irrigated is served by works controlled by the water 

 users. 



Streams supply 47,662 acres, or 75.4 per cent of the 

 total area irrigated; lakes supply 200 acres, or 0.3 per 

 cent; wells supply 1,456 acres, or 2.3 per cent; springs 

 supply 395 acres, or 0.6 per cent; and reservoirs supply 

 13,535 acres, or 21.4 per cent. 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded contract 

 to James W. Jory of Klamath Falls, Oregon, for the con- 

 struction of Schedule 4A, Lost River diversion channel, 

 on the Klamath irrigation project, Oregon-California. 

 The contract price is approximately $4,060. 



WANTED 



LAND SALESMEN 



Capable of Earning 

 $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 a Year 



To sell highest grade irrigated fruit land in the 

 country. Exceptionally attractive selling terms. 

 This is the best paying proposition today for 

 land men who are live wires in all sections of 

 the country. Address ROBERT S. LEMON, 

 General Sales Manager, Bitter Root Valley 

 Irrigation Company, Suite 848-898 First Na- 

 tional Bank Building, Chicago. 



CLARK WRIGHT 



LAWYERS 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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