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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Uncle Sam can well afford to spend a million dollars 

 a year for the purpose of settling up the vacant lands 

 of his domain rather than let our people emigrate into for- 

 eign countries. 



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The change from live years' residence to three years 

 for proving up on a homestead is a very good one and 

 will help to bring in settlers on the irrigation projects 

 of the government. 



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The United States is holding the best and most de- 

 sirable parts of America but Uncle Sam seems to have 

 been afraid to state that fact. 



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Some of our neighbors are not at all bashful to 

 publish all desirable features of their holdings, carefully 

 abstaining to call attention to any drawbacks. 



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Just the same if we want to hold our own or want 

 to draw new blood from elsewhere inducements must be 



offered. 



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The crop of water has been abundant this year as 

 the l6wer Mississippi Valley is willing to attest. 



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By the way that brings up the question how is the 

 problem of protecting the overflowed valleys of this 



country to be solved? 



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THE IRRIGATION AGE is the only representative irri- 

 gation journal in America and should be read by every- 

 one interested in reclamation. 



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The "Primer of Hydraulics" is the only book on 

 hydraulics written so that the average man can under- 

 scand it. It solves all problems relating to the flow of 

 water that can come up in irrigation and drainage. 



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One dollar per year pays for a year's subscription 

 to THE IRRIGATION AGE. You cannot afford to do with- 

 out it. 



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Send $2.50 for the "Primer of Hydraulics," cloth 

 bound just the book for the irrigator. 



TO HELP IN COLONIZING THE WEST. 



An important meeting was recently held in the 

 Federal building, Chicago, to consider the problem of 

 providing settlers for the West and particularly for the 

 many irrigation tracts which are now finished but await 

 the coming of the husbandman. Mr. Newell, director 

 of the United States Reclamation Bureau, was instru- 

 mental in calling the meeting which was largely at- 

 tended by railway men and land owners, also irriga- 

 tion officials. Mr. Newell stated that of the one million 

 acres of land reclaimed by the Government only one- 

 third is utilized today and that much of the dissatis- 

 faction of settlers or intending settlers is due to mis- 

 representations made by irresponsible parties. As a 

 remedy he recommended the establishment of a National 

 Bureau of Colonization which would give impartial and 

 correct information to all settlers. 



IMPORTANT CHANGES IN REGULATION. 



The Secretary of the Interior has put into effect a 

 number of important modifications of the regulation 

 governing the assignment of homestead entries within 

 irrigation projects. 



A settler is now permitted to assign any part of a 

 farm unit with the approval of the project engineer 



upon the filing with the local land office of a plat of 

 amended farm unit approved by the engineers with the 

 other papers. When one-half of the irrigable area has 

 been reclaimed the entryman may make proof of re- 

 clamation without regard to the number of payments 

 of the building charge which have been made and will 

 receive evidence of the acceptance of such proof. Pro- 

 vision is made for recording mortgages which will "fa- 

 cilitate the making of loans and at the same time protect 

 the money lenders. It is believed that the new regula- 

 tion will result in a great improvement of the condi- 

 tions on many of the government projects where the 

 settlers have been severely handicapped through lack of 

 funds by reason of inability to borrow money on their 

 lands. 



A USEFUL CORPORATION. 



Many of our readers will be interested to know that 

 the Irrigation Service Company of Fort Collins, Colo., 

 has been incorporated for the special purpose of protect- 

 ing the investor in irrigation securities and thus to help 

 restore confidence in good reclamation projects. 



There have been some successful promotions of 

 doubtful projects, to which fact is due the present condi- 

 tion of the market for irrigation securities which, how- 

 ever, shows signs of improvement. 



Greater care should be exercised by investors to the 

 end that only absolutely GOOD projects receive financial 

 assistance. The officers of The Irrigation Service Com- 

 pany have been actively engaged for a period of ten to 

 twenty-five years in irrigation engineering, construction, 

 management and financing, and are therefore quite com- 

 petent so far as the opportunity is offered to the business 

 of safeguarding to pass judgment and safeguard irriga- 

 tion investments. 



THE "WHY" OF THE BIG FOUR "30." 



The above is the title of a neat book of 141 pages of 

 reading matter treating upon the principles governing the 

 Internal Combustion Motor. The book is intended as a 

 guide and teacher for those especially handling machinery 

 made by the Gas Traction Company of Minneopolis, 

 Minn., which company is publishing the above named work 

 and from whom it may be obtained for the small sum of 

 one dollar. The information contained in the book is of a 

 high character, and the text is written so clearly and the 

 illustrations are so plain and thorough that anyone who 

 is able to read can study the construction and care of gas 

 traction engines and we recommend the book to anyone 

 who has anything to do with a gas engine or a gas tractor. 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



D. H. Anderson, Chicago, June 3, 1912. 



Editor IRRIGATION AGE. 

 Dear Sir: 



Can you give me any information through the columns 

 of the AGE about an irrigation district in s. e. Colorado 

 called the Bent & Prowers Irrigation District, comprised 

 of parts of Bent and* Prowers counties? 



How far has the project advanced, and is it likely to 

 be completed? 



Yours, etc., 



C. D. 



This is evidently a private project, as it is not men- 

 tioned in the "Government Reclamation Record" and we 

 will appreciate if any one of our readers in that section of 

 Colorado will send us the desired information. Editor. 



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