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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



CLEAN DITCHES AND GOOD ROADS MEAN WEALTH 



OOD roads and clean, well built ditches are two 

 elements which make for the success of the 

 irrigation farmer,'' said C. D. Edwards, of Albert Lea, 

 Minn., the other day. "The farmers have to do most 

 of the road building themselves and therefore many of 

 them are now investing in this class of machinery. 



"I have striv- 

 en to build for the 

 western farmer a 

 machine that will 

 serve him in two 

 ways as a road 

 grader and as a 

 ditch constructor 

 and cleaner. I 

 have sought t o 

 build this machine 

 strong but simple 

 and suitable to 

 meet with the con- 

 ditions with 

 which h e must 

 cope." 



The grader, 

 of which Mr. Ed- 

 wards is perhaps 

 most proud be- 

 cause of its utili- 

 tarian values, car- 

 ries a ' blade with 

 the proper adjust- 

 ment for making 



V-bottom irrigation ditches on a slope of one and 

 one-half to one. Any elevation can be given the blade 

 that the banks will stand. Changing single-tree holes iq 

 the cvener, which places the near horse in the ditch, is 

 the fiily change needed to adapt it to V-bottom ditches. 



Making a V Bottom 

 Irrigation Ditch Two 

 Feet Deep on a Slope 

 of One. and One-Half 

 to One. Two or Four 

 Horses Are Used Ac- 

 cording to Require- 

 ments. 



The wheels being wide apart, which best holds a 

 grader to its work, lets one wheel travel in the point of 

 the ditch and the other completely outside of the bank 

 of earth thrown up, leaving the slope smooth and un- 

 disturbed. 



[b'DONNELL HEARS "FIRST NEWELL COMPLAINT' 



By Sam Barrett 



Assistant Secretary of the Landowners Protective Association 

 in the Salt River Valley (Ariz.) Project. 



IEF ENGINEER ARTHUR P. DAVIS, Su- 

 > pervising Engineer Hanna, of the Southwest 

 Division, and I. D. O'Donnell, Supervisor of Irriga- 

 tion of the United States Reclamation Service, have 

 recently held hearings in Phoenix, Ariz., in conjunc- 

 tion with the Survey Board, which was appointed 

 by the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association 

 and the Secretary of the Interior to determine the 

 irrigation area under the Roosevelt Project. 



Arthur P. Davis only attended one hearing and 

 he was severely criticized for the Reclamation Serv- 

 ice not determining the irrigation area some years 

 ago, and also for the favors that had ben handed 

 to the new lands in the way of a new irrigation sys- 

 tem. 



I also had an interesting conversation with Mr. 

 O'Donnell. Because it is enlightening I submit it. 



I handed him a copy of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BARRETT "I do not know Mr. Anderson, 

 personally, but I do know some of the persons who 

 have articles in his paper, and I believe them to be 



sincere and right in what they advocate. One 

 article was written by Scott Etter, of the Carlsbad 

 Project in New Mexico, in which he states that the 

 Secretary of the Interior will never receive the con- 

 fidence of the Water Users unless Newell is re- 

 moved from the head of the Reclamation Commis- 

 sion. I, too, am certain Secretary Lane will not 

 receive the proper confidence of the Water Users 

 unless Mr. F. H. Newell is removed from the 

 service." 



O'DONNELL "You are the first man I ever 

 heard say it." 



BARRETT "If you will, take the time and 

 come with me I will take you to hundreds of Water 

 L T sers in this Valley who will say it. The Water 

 Users of this project feel that Newell is responsible 

 for the outrageously high cost of this project. What 

 the Water Users of this Valley would like to see is 

 a thorough Congressional investigation of the U. 

 S. R. S." 



O'DONNELL "You don't want a Con- 

 gressional investigation." 



(Continued on Page 219.) 



