THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVII 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1912. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 

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CONTENTS. That Idaho will eventually become the 



Editorial Wonderful greatest fruit state in the Union is 



Wonderful Development in Idaho.. . 357 Development shown by the number of apple and fruit 



in Idaho trees which have been planted there 



Low Rates to National Irrigation Congress 357 _ , , , . , , n -i 



Orchards. -during the past few years. While visit- 



Bumper Crops in Idaho . ing the Salmon R j ver country recently, 



Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 358 t h e editor of this journal spent a day on the Twin Falls 



Foreigners Buy Machinery Through Irrigation Deep Creek Orchard Company's tract west of Hollister. 

 Age 358 This company, with headquarters in Twin Falls, has de- 

 Dissatisfaction in the Grand Valley 359 veloped an orchard which should be a tremendous money 



maker in a few years. They have already set out 64,000 

 Principal Articles and Items apple trees of fine varieties> and contemplate doubling 



Give Extension to the Farmer 359 t h a t area within the next two or three years. Further 



Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 360 information concerning this project will be found 'else- 

 Utah, the Hostess State 362 where in our columns. 



Salt Lake, the Hostess City 363 



~ . ,, XT . . T . . .-, The National Irrigation Congress, which 



Program, Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 364 . , e 



Low Rates is to meet in Salt Lake City September 



to National 30, held its first meeting in that city 



First National Irrigation Congress 366 Irrigation September 15-17, 1891. This year it re- 



Kinney on Irrigation and Water Rights 367 Congress. turns to the city of its birth to hold its 



Incidents in Development of Irrigation with Lake twentieth annual meeting. While this 



^luck 3gg is but its twentieth meeting, it is the twenty-first anniver- 



Orchard Development' in Idaho . . 370 saf y of the r g a " ization f the congress and it is particu- 



lar'v appropriate that Salt Lake City be allowed an oppor- 



Activities of the Forestry Bureau 371 ^.^ o entertain its members . Special railroad rates 



\\ hy a Kerosene Tractor 372 and tourjst fares have been made ap pH cable to the com- 



An Artistic New Roofing 373 | n g nlee ting by all interested railroads. Within certain 



Reclamation Notes 374 territory a special rate of one fare for the round trip 



Mineral Waste ". 376 will be available. From greater distances one and one- 

 Supreme Court Decisions 377 third fare rates have been made for the round trip, with 



Gas Engine Economics 373 liberal stop-over and return privileges. 



