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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



more readily than do the tile pipe and animals are 

 continually digging into them, when water is not 

 running, and filling them up to a greater or less 

 degree with dirt. 



Water is becoming extremely valuable in east- 

 ern Colorado and in many instances land may be 

 drained, the outlet of the drain being so placed that 

 the discharge enters some irrigation canal, and after 

 filing upon the same the owner may sell it or rent it 

 profitably. This has been done in a number of cases 

 near Fort Collins. In some cases the flow has been 

 sufficient to pay for the installation of the entire 

 drainage system. Drain water makes good late 

 water, as the flow usually continues well into the 

 fall and when water in the ditches becomes low. 

 The seepage water entering the drain is a maximum, 

 hence the value. 



The drainage of lands should be considered 

 whenever irrigation is contemplated, because, if the 

 sub-soil of the community does not of itself form a 

 natural drain, it is only a question of time when the 

 underground water will be so increased in volume 

 that the water table will reach the surface in the 

 many low spots. The worst alkali and seeped tracts 

 that could be found in the country have been experi- 

 mented upon and reclaimed in such a manner that 

 luxuriant crops have been grown upon them, while 

 surrounding them upon all sides was a barren alkali 

 waste. A drainage system properly installed may 

 be counted upon to do the work. E. B. HOUSE, Col- 

 orado Experiment Station, Fort Collins. Colo. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



California. 



Yolo Water and Power Company : Principal 

 office. Woodland. 



Middletown Irrigated Farms Company, Mid- 

 dletdwn, N. Y. : Capital stock, $75,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, C. A. Evans, H. D. Gould, A. C. Ogden, D. S. 

 Horton, all of Middletown, N. Y. 



Palmdale Water Company, Los Angeles : Capi- 

 tal stock, $200,000. Incorporators, C. Gate, J. R. 

 Avery, W. C. Fisher, K. E. Reardon and E. Lindsay, 

 all of Los Angeles. 



New Jersey. 



Montana Water and Power Company, Trenton : 

 Capital stock, $3,500.000. Incorporators, H. F. 

 Kroyer, New York City; G. H. Burt, Rosedale, N. 

 J., and C. Norman Foy, Chicago, 111. 

 Texas. 



Cameron Farm Company, Orange : Capital 

 stock, $75,000. Incorporators. A. J. Bancroft. Geo. 

 W. Bancroft and G. M. Sells, all of Orange, Texas. 

 Utah. 



Utah Conservation Company, Salt Lake City : 

 Capital stock, $100,000. Incorporators, Lewis S. 

 Hills, Salt Lake City; John Bern, W. W. Arm- 

 strong, C. H. Carlquist, O. C. Beebe. 

 Washington. 



Irrigation Pump and Land Company, Seattle : 

 Capital stock, $1,000,000. Incorporators, J. Q. Dick, 

 C. H. Brockhagen, John Arthur, W. R. Phillips and 

 R. D. Ogden. 



AN INTERNATIONAL IRRIGATION EX- 

 HIBIT AT THE SAN DIEGO EX- 

 POSITION, 1915. 



BY JOHN A. Fox. 



The following resolution, adopted by the Inter- 

 national Congress at its recent session held in Salt 

 Lake, should prove interesting to every section of 

 the arid states of the 'West : 



"Resolved, that the International Irrigation 

 Congress cooperate to the fullest extent with the 

 Panama-California Exposition in producing at San 

 Diego, in 1915, the most elaborate and comprehen- 

 sive International Irrigation Exhibit that has ever 

 been assembled; that we invoke the aid of the legis- 

 latures of the several states forming the western 

 part of the Union, and of the governments of all 

 foreign countries interested in irrigation, to the end 

 that this plan may be successfully carried out." 



The Board of Governors met the day following 

 the adjournment of the congress and elected one of 

 their number, Mr. Douglas White, of California, to 

 act for that body in carrying out the resolution. 



There are now about 13,000,000 acres under 

 irrigation projects in the several arid and semi-arid 

 states ; and there are 30.000,000 acres more capable 

 of being irrigated. Millions of people in the United 

 States do not know what the Reclamation Service 

 is, nor what it has done towards extending and en- 

 riching the agricultural area of the United States. 

 They have no idea of the practical working of irri- 

 gation, nor of the wonderful results that are ob- 

 tained. There are hundreds of men in the East with 

 money to invest who know nothing of the oppor- 

 tunities and possibilities for investment in develop- 

 ing irrigation projects; and those who do know are 

 ignorant of the process by means of which their 

 money is made to transform the desert into a 

 garden. Many have invested blindly with no knowl- 

 edge of the subject, and have lost large sums. 



Nothing could be more appropriate, therefore, 

 in the celebration of the Panama Canal opening in 

 1915 than to illustrate what irrigation has done, 

 and what it can be made to do, in the development 

 of this vast section of the United States to which 

 the Panama Canal means so much. An Irrigation 

 Exhibit will not only educate and enlighten thou- 

 sands of people regarding the West and its develop- 

 ment, but such an exhibit can be made one of the 

 most unique and original features ever presented 

 at a World's Exposition. 



Here, through a practical illustration of an irri- 

 gation project, the Eastern capitalist can be made 

 to understand why and when it is safe to invest in 

 irrigation bonds ; here the prospective farmer, 

 whether from Europe or the densely populated East, 

 can see his future environment in its true light. 

 The Western states need both capital and labor to 

 develop their wonderful resources, and the action 

 of the National Irrigation Congress in passing such 

 a resolution will, no doubt, prove both wise and 

 timely. 



It was Col. D. C. Collier, president of the Pan- 

 ama-California Exposition, who first conceived the 

 idea of making an exposition the means of exploit- 



