THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1914. 



No. 6 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION 



THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 

 THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN 



Tin-: DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 Mm- WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 

 THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1897, at the Postoffice 

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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs 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 irrigation projects. 



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 corporations. It is read regularly by all inter- 

 ested in this subject and has readers in all parts of the 

 world. The Irrigation Age is 29 years old and is the 

 pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



It is not merely "disgruntled farm- 

 House ers or malcontents" who are de- 



Cleaning manding a general house cleaning 



Demand Is by Secretary of the Interior Lane 

 Widespread in the engineering department of 



the Reclamation Service. The de- 

 mand for such action seems almost unanimous 

 among the farmers on the Federal irrigation proj- 

 ects. A large part of the farmers have no confidence 

 in Director F. H. Newell or Chief Engineer Davis, 

 or anything they say. The engineering world 

 stands aghast at the discrepancies between the esti- 

 mated and the actual costs of the Federal projects, 

 due to ignorance, incompetency, waste, or just pure 

 downright foolishness. 



Earl B. Smith, chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the National Federation of Water Users' 

 Associations, recently sought an interview with 

 Isham Randolph, an eminent engineer of national 

 reputation. Here are three questions which Mr. 

 Smith asked, and Mr. Randolph's answers: 



1. Is it within the province of the engineering 

 profession to attempt to make reliable estimates of 

 the cost of projects such as the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice has been constructing? Answer Yes. 



2. Do financiers, bankers and large business 

 men rely on their engineers' estimates where works 

 of such proportions are contemplated? Answer 



Yes, within 5 per cent, or in certain cases within 10 

 per cent, and any engineer whose estimates ex- 

 ceeded those limits would never get another im- 

 portant job in this country. 



3. Is it reasonable for the landowners and 

 entrymen to rely, in a financial way, on government 

 engineers' estimates in the construction of reclama- 

 tion projects? Answer Yes, perfectly reasonable. 



What do you think about those answers, Sec- 

 retary Lane? Don't you think it about time to free 

 your organization of barnacles and incompetents 

 and give the Water Users a new deal ? 



Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has 

 Be Square just published his autobiography. 

 Col. Roosevelt! In it he makes the following state- 

 Apologize to ment : 

 The Settlers "The recent attacks on the 



Reclamation Service, and on Mr. 

 Newell, arise in large part, if not altogether, from 

 an organized effort to repudiate the obligation of 

 the settlers to repay the Government for what it 

 has expended to reclaim the land. The repudiation 

 of any debt can always find supporters, and in this 

 case it has attracted the support not only of certain 

 men among the settlers who hope to be relieved of 

 paying what they owe, but also of a variety of un- 

 scrupulous politicians, some highly placed. It is 

 unlikely that their efforts to deprive the west of the 

 revolving irrigation fund will succeed in doing any- 



