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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Combination Headgate 

 and Measuring Device. 



The *v-lie 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 Gth, 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 state of Montana, four Agency Directors, as good 

 traveling salesmen as ever slung a grip. They 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, 

 and you wish to be instrumental in abolishing the trouble, 

 write, wire or 'phone the 



U. S. Irrigators' Supply Co. 



Montana Block, Missoula, Montana 



Articles of incorporation have been filed in Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., by the Tongue River Irrigation Company, 

 with headquarters in Indianapolis. The capital stock of 

 the company is placed at $130,000. It is stated that the 

 new company is merely a reorganization of an old com- 

 pany organized for the purpose of holding lands in Cus- 

 ter county, Montana. All of the incorporators live in 

 Indianapolis. Among them are William Holton Dye and 

 Robert I. Blakeman. 



NEW MEXICO. 



A complete irrigation system to cost approximately 

 $40,000 is planned by the Muddy Valley Irrigation Com- 

 pany of Las Vegas, operating in the Muddy and Moapa 

 valley. Included in the plans of the company is the con- 

 struction of two electric power plants to be operated by 

 the water power developed by the improved system. 

 About 10,000 acres will be irrigated by the company by 

 means of two canals, the combined length of which is 

 about 30 miles. 



Pumping for water on a large scale will begin in the 

 Albuquerque valley about April 1. Telegraphic approval 

 of the tentative contract entered into several weeks ago 

 between the farmers and the Albuquerque Gas, Electric 

 Light & Power Company has been received at Albu- 

 querque by E. C. Butler, manager of the company at that 

 point. Construction work on the power lines will be 

 commenced at once and rushed to completion. The line 

 south of Albuquerque will be constructed at a cost of 

 approximately $10,000. Provided the farmers meet with 

 success south of Albuquerque, lines will be built north 

 and west of that city. 



The Red River Company of Bell Ranch, San Miguel 

 county, has been granted an application for water rights 

 for a 100,000-acre irrigation project. The land involved 

 is located on the Montoya Land Grant. 



The U. S. Reclamation Service has a large force of 

 men at work giving the lateral system of the Carlsbad 

 project a thorough overhauling. Every lateral is being 

 repaired and put in perfect condition. 



Irrigators, Attention! 



WE have a district of independent water-rights. 

 No weeds from a community ditch, no wait- 

 ing your turn tor water, no chance for water-thieves to 

 steal your water. On the other hand, our farmers have 

 water whenever they want it. It is the purest water in 

 America. The original water-right costs but $20 or 

 $30 per acre, and is based on the most dependable 

 supply of water for irrigation on the globe namely, 

 on the great underflow of the Mimbres Valley, which 

 has a watershed of 1 ,400 square miles and a pumping 

 area of only 125,000 acres at the most. The lift for 

 water varies trom 1 5 to 1 00 feet, and with improved 

 devices for raising water, every well-informed man knows 

 that where abundant water can be secured at such a 

 Rft, the pumping plant makes the surest, cheapest and 

 most dependable water-right in the world. We have 

 it here. Also low values. It is just the sunniest and 

 most beautiful valley in New Mexico, and just the place 

 to build a cozy country home that will make you and 

 your family independent for all time to come. Now is 

 the time to get in on the ground floor. Less than five 

 per cent of the irrigable area is reclaimed. This, of 

 course, means rock-bottom prices. Write Secretary, 

 Deming Chamber of Commerce, Deming, N. M., for 

 a booklet describing the best irrigation proposition in 

 America. Don't wait. Write now. 



Please mention name of this publication. 



When writing to advertisers please mention The Irrigation Age. 



