Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1914. 



No. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MOOBXN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE IKRIGATOI 



D. H. ANDERSON 

 PUBLISHER, 



30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Old No. 112 Dearborn St 



Entered as second-class matter October t, 1SS7. at the 

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



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clnbs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



The Executive Committee of the National Federation 

 of Water Users' Associations has taken action whereby 

 the Irrigation Age is created the official organ of this 

 vast organization, representing 1,000,000 persons on the 

 government irigation projects. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertiser! 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 ind hai 

 readers in all parti of the world. The Irrigation Age is 29 ye*ri 

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



ANNOUNCEMENT 



THE IRRIGATION AGE has absorbed the entire paid 

 circulation of the Water Users' Bulletin, published 

 until recently by the National Federation of Water 

 Users' Associations. Each subscriber to the Bulletin 

 will receive THE AGE for the full term, for which his 

 unexpired subscription payment entitled him to re- 

 ceive the Bulletin. The subscribers to the Bulletin 

 included Water Users on every government project 

 and persons interested in irrigation affairs, living in 

 all parts of the United States. The circulation of 

 the Bulletin was transferred to THE AGE after the 

 Executive Committee of the National Federation of 

 Water Users' Associations had created THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE its official organ. 



They're 



Breathing 



Hard; 



Fight 



"It is almost impossible to get our 

 water users together for any kind of a 

 meeting. They have been burdened, 

 down-trodden and enslaved by the 

 rules and regulations of the Recla- 

 mation Service bureaucracy until 

 they are almost without hope. They have seen 

 promises and contracts, made by the representatives 

 of their government, broken at will so often that 

 they now seem to think any effort to protect what 

 rights they may still have or any action to win back 

 those rights of which they have been robbed would be 

 simply wasted. They have seen incompetency and 



gross and inexcusable errors of the Reclamation Ser- 

 vice excused and condoned at Washington and the 

 cost of the ignorance or mistakes piled upon the 

 settlers, and when it is suggested to them that there 

 is still justice in the United States and that they 

 can get it if they will make a determined stand, 

 they laugh hollow-like, and slink back into their 

 homes like frightened coyotes." 



This is an excerpt from a letter from a promi- 

 nent man on one of the Federal projects. Perhaps 

 he drew his word picture too strongly. Perhaps his 

 own feelings got the better of him, as he pictured 

 conditions about him. But has he not told some 

 truths about your project, Mr. Federal Water User, 

 and about every government project? 



You have had much to discourage you. You 

 have had difficulties that would make almost any 

 strong man wince. You have overcome many of 

 nature's most serious obstacles. You have made the 

 desert bloom, despite broken promises concerning 

 the amount of water you were to receive ; despite 

 ignorance in construction of the main irrigating 

 works, which wrought destruction or damage to 

 your farm. You have made the beginnings of a 

 home for yourself and your family in a country upon 

 which the great Creator has bestowed some of the 

 best of air. sunshine and soil. You have done real 



