Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1914. 



No. 7 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 

 The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION 



THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 

 THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 

 THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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 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. 



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Stop the 

 Sale of the 

 Irrigation 

 Congress 



For a job and a jaunt and paltry 

 gold. 



There you have the disgraceful 

 story of the sale of the National 

 Irrigation Congress, body and soul, 

 to Canada. 



And they bought it cheap $10,000. 



True friends of the West, who founded this 

 Congress, the men who, through its twenty years 

 or more of existence have fought year in and year 

 out to keep it from control of sinister interests, 

 must stand aside and see an alien country reap the 

 benefits of all their building. 



Calgary, Alberta, in the heart of a district 

 which the Canadian railroad interests are attempt- 

 ing to settle up with American farmers, bought the 

 Congress. Even its name was changed to suit the 

 Britishers. They now call it the International Irri- 

 gation Congress. 



And young Mr. Hooker, the secretary, is busy 

 riding about the United States telling of the virtues 

 of Canadian lands' and other British inducements 

 to settlers. Nice, isn't it, of a young American citi- 

 zen, who was placed in a position of high honor 

 by an organization of American citizens? 



Of course young Mr. Hooker is pleased. Once 



more he is drawing a handsome salary and has 

 stenographers and office assistants, and is called 

 Mr. Secretary. And then he gets this nice little 

 trip about the United States in order that he may 

 boost Canada lands. Then there are certain mem- 

 bers of the Board of Governors, who peremptorily, 

 without consulting the executive committee of the 

 Congress, and, unless we are misinformed, in viola- 

 tion of the constitution of the Congress, accepted 

 the offer of the crafty Canadians. They, no doubt, 

 can enjoy a short jaunt or two in the Canadian 

 Rockies out of that $10,000. Surely the wily Cana- 

 dians will not be so stingy as to deny certain "gov- 

 ernors" that pleasure. 



The sale of the Irrigation Congress to these 

 Canadians is an outrage. If there is any way by 

 which the officers' and executive committee of the 

 Irrigation Congress can overrule this infamous deal 

 of the Board of Governors and Secretary Hooker, 

 they should do so at once. United States Senator 

 Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, is president of the 

 Congress. As a patriotic American and a West- 

 erner, he should act quickly, calling together the 

 executive committee to deal summarily with this 

 Board of Governors who made this sordid. un- 

 American deal. Give back to Canada any of its 



