THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1914. 



No. 3 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which i Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODEKN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Interesting to Advertisers. 



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

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation cotco- 

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

 readers in all parti of the world. The Irrigation Age is 28 year* 

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



\\e are presenting below a copy of 

 Beneficial the resolution adopted at the Salt 



Use Lake Conference of Reclamation 



Of Engineers and members of the new 



Water Reclamation Commission, who met 



to discuss topics of general interest 

 to irrigators and others who are interested in the 

 best means to bring about a clearer understanding 

 of questions which daily confront the irrigator. 



The laws of most of the Western states make 

 beneficial use the "basis, the measure and the limit" 

 of water rights, but do not define beneficial use, 

 and this resolution is an effort on the part of the 

 Reclamation Service to define it. 



This meeting was held in Salt Lake City, No- 

 vember 12-15, and those present were the project 

 managers of the U. S. Reclamation Service and 

 representatives of the Department of Agriculture, 

 who attended the meeting on the invitation of the 

 director of the reclamation service. Mr. Newell 

 presided, and Mr. I. D. O'Donnell, the new member 

 of the Reclamation Commission, was present, and 

 talked on numerous occasions, on the relations be- 

 tween the service and the settlers and on credit for 

 the settlers. The meetings were entirely informal, 

 and the subjects discussed were all of the questions 

 which came in the management of irrigation proj- 



ects, such as systems of distribution, continuous 

 flow or rotation, measurement of water to con- 

 sumers, qualifications of ditch-riders, collection of 

 crop statistics, experimental and demonstration 

 farms, agricultural advisers for settlers, collection 

 of charges for water, extension of time payments, 

 etc. 



It is understood that Mr. Newell will send out 

 an official report of the conference, and it is our in- 

 tention to reproduce this in a future issue of THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE, for the benefit of our readers. 



Following is a copy of the resolution passed : 



BENEFICIAL USE OF WATER A water user 

 with a vested right limited to beneficial use is entitled to 

 that amount of water that will render him a reasonable 

 maximum amount of good with a reasonably economic 

 handling of the water. Since he has acquired his vested 

 right from the laws of his state, he is entitled to protec- 

 tion of that right by the state; but it is his duty to the 

 state, and the state has the right to demand of him that 

 he use every reasonable method to reduce the amount of 

 water required to a minimum. This demand requires the 

 water user to make reasonable preparation of the ground 

 surface for irrigation; to use good judgment in selecting 

 appropriate methods of applying the water to the ground: 

 to prepare reasonably efficient dikes, ditches and struc- 

 tures to get the water over the land in such a way as to 

 reduce the underground losses to a minimum, to irrigate 

 the ground with such a head and at such intervals as to 

 require a minimum use of water for proper irrigation; 

 to cultivate the irrigated ground when practicable to pre- 

 vent undue losses from evaporation; in some cases possi- 

 bly to govern the character of crops to be grown. It is 

 evident that the reasonable degree of perfection of each 



