Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1913. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



Wtth which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODBKN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE ISBIGATOK 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 

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Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1817. at the 

 Postofflce at Chicago. 111., under Act of March 3. 187. 



D. H. ANDERSON. Editor 



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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 has 

 readers in all parti of the world. The Irrigation Age Is 28 yean 

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



We are presenting in this issue a 

 Chief letter from A. P. Davis, Chief Engi- 



Engineer neer, United States Reclamation 



Davis Service, concerning the complaints 



Talks of the people of the North Platte 



Valley. Mr. Davis contends that 

 so far as they have any basis, they are founded on 

 claims of riparian rights, which are directly antagon- 

 istic to irrigation and have long ago been set aside 

 by the state laws and the state courts. Mr. Davis 

 goes into the matter very thoroughly and it will be 

 worth the while of our readers to go over his letter. 



We will present in a future issue an 

 Elephant article on the Elephant Butte Dam, 



Butte located in New Mexico, which is the 



Dam largest project of the Reclamation 



New Mexico Service. This will create the larg- 

 est artificial lake of the kind in the 

 world; the project is now nearing completion. The 

 Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico is the home of 

 irrigation in the United States. The first white men 

 who visited that section, as early in its history as 

 1536, found the country under a high state of cul- 

 tivation. It is our plan to tell all about this great 

 project in our December number. 



In a recent communication from 

 Governor Governor John M. Haines of the 



Haines State of Idaho, addressed to the ed- 



Answers itor of THE IRRIGATION AGE, we are 



Bohm requested to publish an open letter 



addressed by the governor to Mr. 

 Edward Bohm, in reply to his open letter written 

 for the October number of THE AGE. The governor 

 takes exceptions to statements made by Mr. Bohm 

 and we are very glad indeed to reproduce his letter 

 in this issue. 



It is only fair to allow Governor Haines space 

 for his reply to Mr. Bohm and in this way we trust 

 that the full facts concerning the Idaho situation 

 may be placed before our readers. It may not be 

 out of place to say here, however, that Mr. Bohm, 

 in his studies of Western conditions, has gone over 

 the various projects more carefully than any one 

 in the knowledge of the editor of this publication. 

 He has spent large sums of money in his investiga- 

 tions, without hope of return ; in fact, is the only 

 man in the knowledge of the writer who has spent 

 much time and money in the study of this subject. 

 Mr. Bohm is naturally a delver after facts! he has 

 had some experience in governmental work in the 

 Census Bureau studying irrigation conditions. 



