Year 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1914. 



No. 8 



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 



PUBLISHER, 

 30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Old No. 118 Dearborn St. 



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

 at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 3, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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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. 



On another page of this issue of 

 The Sale of THE IRRIGATION AGE, we print a let- 

 the Irrigation ter from the secretary of the West- 

 Congress Must ern Canada Irrigation Association. 

 Be Stopped He terms our protest against the sale 

 of the Irrigation Congress to Canada 

 as "feverish." He offers several reasons why the 

 deal, which the Board of Governors of the Con- 

 gress made with the Canadians, is proper. We print 

 his letter because it is the policy of THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE, no matter what may be its own views, to try 

 to give both sides of any question. 



The reasons offered by the Canadian letter 

 writer present no valid excuse for the unpatriotic 

 bargain which the Board of Governors made with 

 the la.nd boomers across the border. 



The Irrigation Congress was organized to pro- 

 mote the interests of irrigation in the United States. 

 It has been in the forefront of the development in 

 the West. Its work is far from completed. It 

 should be kept strictly as an institution of the 

 United States and should go on with the noble 

 work which it began. 



We believe that through this Congress the 

 United States should give to the world the best 



thought of the nation on irrigation affairs. This 

 the Congress has always done by inviting delegates 

 from other nations to be its guests. 



W T e believe the Congress should endeavor to 

 obtain for the United States all the information con- 

 cerning progress in irrigation affairs in other lands. 

 This it has done in the past by inviting the irriga- 

 tion experts of the world to appear on its programs. 



There, we believe, its international work should 

 end. 



Because financiers and politicians in one Ameri- 

 can city, which had been awarded the Congress, 

 quarreled among themselves over the expenses of 

 entertaining the Congress, the Board of Governors 

 and Secretary Hooker promptly danced across the 

 border with this great organization. They were 

 ready and anxious to dance to the Canadian's music 

 because that music was the tinkle of dollars a 

 salary for Secretary Hooker, and plenty of expense 

 money for "governors," whose "official" business 

 might take them to the convention city frequently. 



Nice for Secretary Hooker and the "governors." 



"Easy" for the Canadian land boomers, who 

 have vast appropriations to spend to advertise their 

 lands. Where could they buy cheaper publicity? 



