THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1914. 



No. 9 



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 Postoffice 

 at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 8, 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. 



The Board of Governors of the Irri- 

 The Irrigation gallon Congress has not yet taken 

 Congress any steps to rescind the despicable 



Must Be contract under which they sold the 



Saved great organization to Canada. Prep- 



arations are going on merrily for the 

 meeting across the border and the crafty Canadians 

 are doing their best to obtain publicity for their 

 lands by using the name of the Congress. A few 

 newspapers are giving space to this publicity but 

 they are very few. 



Among other documents which the Canadian 

 boomers are again giving circulation in connection 

 with the Congress, is a signed article by Frederick 

 Haynes Xewell, director of the United States 

 Reclamation Service, in which he attempts to show 

 .the advantages of Canadian irrigated lands over 

 those of the nation which pays him a salary. 



Unless we are terribly misinformed, Secretary 

 Hooker and the Board of Governors are not as well 

 pleased now as they were when they had just com- 

 pleted the sale of the Congress. Their repeated 

 "explanations" that the Congress had not been sold 

 but just leased for a year, have met with little or no 



favor among Americans. Papers throughout the 

 West and many in the East have spoken in no un- 

 certain words of condemnation of the "deal." Since 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE revealed the fact that the Con- 

 gress was sold despite the fact that Ogden, Utah, 

 had offered to entertain it, the excoriations of the 

 Board of Governors have grown even more vehe- 

 ment. 



Meanwhile, the Canadians, having found that 

 for their $10,000 they had received little else but an 

 opportunity to pay Secretary Hooker's magnificent 

 salary, have become peeved. When the ruse of 

 using the Congress in order to get their land boost- 

 ing publicity into United States papers failed to 

 work, they became even more peevish. As a result. 

 Secretary Hooker, we are told, has been sat upon 

 frequently and strenuously during the past month, 

 and he is feeling not at all good. The Canadians 

 have announced that they will do most if not all the 

 junketing themselves, and this has not been pleas- 

 ing to certain officials of the Congress, who expected 

 to make a number of trips. 



Some of the officials have even been so "im- 

 pertinent" as to investigate the hurried summons 



