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THE IBRIGATION AGE. 



AMERICAN 



RECLAMATION 



FEDERATION 



(Incorporated Not for Profit) 



WITH WHICH IS MERGED 



The Chicago Irrigation Association 



AND 



The American Irrigation Federation 



This Federation is organized for the pro- 

 motion and encouragement of the irrigation, re- 

 clamation, colonization and development of 

 land within the United States of America. It 

 maintains an office at 1110 First National Bank 

 Building, 38 South Dearborn Street, where there 

 is open to the public, free of charge, maps and 

 publications relating to the lands of the United 

 States. Questions relating to irrigation matters 

 will be answered by the officers of the Federation 

 and information given. 



THE OFFICERS OF THE FEDERATION ARE: 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, President 

 HENRY C. WOOD, Vice-President 

 D. H. ANDERSON, Secretary 

 WILLIAM W. VERNON, Treasurer 



THE DIRECTORS ARE: 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, President Edmund T. Perkins 

 Engineering Co. 



HENRY C. WOOD, Wood & Lounsbury, Attorneys-at- 

 Law. 



WILLIAM W. VERNON, Secretary American Life 

 Insurance Co. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher "Irrigation Age" 



PARKE WEST, Journalist 



W. P. VAN BUSKIRK, Vice-President, Standard Trust 

 & Savings Bank 



CHARLES F. FISHBACK, President, Porter, Fishback 

 &Co. 



JOHN D. HIBBARD, President, North American Secur- 

 ities Co. 



ISHAM RANDOLPH, Consulting Engineer 



JAMES A. McLANE, James A. McLane & Co. 



RICHARD S. THAIN, Lewiston Land & Water Co. 



Organizations and individuals interested in 

 reclamation are invited to become members. 

 Detailed information concerning initiation fees 

 and dues will be furnished upon application to the 

 secretary. Address 



D. H. Anderson, Secretary 



30 North Dearborn St., 



Chicago, 111. 



,'SOO feet above the tract to be reclaimed. It will require 

 486 feet of pipe line to carry the water into the coulee. 



William R. King, a well known consulting engineer 

 of Portland, Oregon, has filed an appropriation of 2,000 

 cubic feet of water to be taken from the Yakima river 

 at Prosser. Surveyors in Mr. King's employ are making 

 a preliminary survey of the old Ledbetter ditch, or what 

 is known in that vicinity as the Benton project. Mr. 

 King, when interviewed, stated that he was going to make 

 a survey of the Benton project, along the same general 

 lines of the old Ledbetter ditch, to see if the project was 

 feasible, and had only filed on the 2,000 cubic feet of 

 water as a precautionary measure. It is rumored that the 

 Northern Pacific Railway has taken hold of the old 

 Benton project and will push it to rapid completion. 



Active construction work on the Palouse irrigation 

 project, designed to reclaim 110,000 acres of land in the 

 Palouse and Snake River valleys in Franklin county, 150 

 miles southwest of Spokane, will be started within three 



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