THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVII 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1912. 



NO. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

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CONTENTS. The Supreme Court of the State of Texas 



Editorial Irrigation has quite recently handed down an important 



Irrigation Contracts Require Care 245 Contracts decision of great interest to irrigators. The 



A Move in the Right Direction 246 R egu i re case under consideration was that of the Ray- 

 Factors Affecting Advertising Values 246 mond Rice Canal & Milling Co. against W. F. 



Wanted An Automatic Horse 247 Erb and W. E. Wright for failure to supply 



Helping the Small Farmer.... 247 water according to contract. The evidence showed that the 



The Lessons of the Titanic. . . 247 Ra y mond Company had a contract with Erb and White to 



furnish them with enough water for 350 acres of rice land 



Principal Articles and Items to produce a certain number of sacks of rice to the acre at 



Siphoning Water for Irrigation 248 the rate of $7.50 per acre. Then in consequence of a long- 



An Interesting Catalogue 248 continued drouth the water supply failed and the Raymond 



A Progressive Railway 248 Company received only its proportionate amount of the avail- 

 Salt River Valley 249 a ^' e water > f r which that company brought suit for dam- 

 Encouraging Words 253 ages ' T5le District Court which tried the case first decided 

 - Improvements for theColumbia River!! ! 253. in favor of the defendants, but the Appellate Court found 

 To Whom It May Concern.. . 253 for the com P lainant whlch the Supreme Court affirms the 

 . . finding of the District Court and reverses that of the Appel- 



Anzona 254 



~. _ . . TT . late Court. 



The Primer of Hydraulics The decision fests upQn the provisions of the Irri gation 



Orchard Charts 259 Act o{ Igg5 which provides that in case of shortage of 



The Huntley Project in Southern Montana 259 water from drout h, accident or other cause the water to be 



Reclamation Notes 260 distributed shall be divided among all consumers pro rata, 



Where Do the Hides Go? 268 according to the amount they may be entitled to so that all 



may suffer alike and preference be given to none. 



The principal point stated why the complainant had no 

 good cause to recover damages is that the filling of the con- 

 tract would require the defendant to break provisions of the 

 Irrigation Law as may be seen from the following abstract 

 of the decision : 



"A contract which by its terms exacts a violation of the 



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