THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1913. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Mereed 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODBRN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THK IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE IR&IGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and nil 

 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 28 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



In this issue appears a communica- 

 Bohm tion from the pen of Mr. Edward 



Fights Bohm, of Cleveland, Ohio, member 



for executive Congressional committee 



Settlers f the National Irrigation Congress, 



that is of sufficient interest to at- 

 tract the attention of every one who has the welfare 

 of the west at heart. Mr. Bohm made a general 

 western trip about a year ago and devoted much 

 time to the study of various plans under which irri- 

 gation is carried on throughout the west. While on 

 this trip, which was taken in the interest of this 

 publication, he made a careful study of abuses com- 

 mitted under the' Carey Act ; this was of particular 

 interest to him, as study in the preparation of his 

 work, "The Carey Act," had given him a clear in- 

 sight to the possible abuses that were likely to de- 

 velop under that law. Mr. Bohm was especially 

 severe in his criticism of the manner in which pro- 

 jects like "The Big Lost River," and several others, 

 were handled in Idaho. 



It is therefore our opinion that our readers gen- 

 erally will go carefully over his letter appearing in 

 these columns. 



International 

 Harvester 

 Loses Good 



Mr. M. R. D. Owings, who for the 

 past eight years, has been in charge 

 of the advertising and publicity de- 

 partments and service bureau of the 

 International Harvester Company, 

 has in the reorganization of the ex- 

 ecutive staff of M. Rumely Co., La Porte, Ind., been 

 honored by his election as director and vice-presi- 

 dent of that institution. Mr. Owings has had an 

 extended experience in the implement business. He 

 began with the Sandwich Manufacturing Company 

 and later entered the employ of the Milwaukee 

 Harvester Company at Milwaukee, subsequently 

 becoming the head of the departments specified, 

 shortly after the organization of the International 

 Harvester Company. 



The advancement of Mr. Owings is an illustra- 

 tion of the possibilities for a man who carefully and 

 heartily enters into the study and requirements of a 

 large and growing business. He is a man of un- 

 usually keen perception and has mastered each and 

 all of the difficulties arising in the development of 

 the various departments over which his jurisdiction 

 extended. His many friends throughout the news- 

 paper world will wish him the very best success in 

 this .new position. 



