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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1914. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 

 MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOK 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 

 30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



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

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



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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 Old 

 Congress 

 Cleansed, or a 

 New Congress? 



The officers and board of gov- 

 ernors of the Irrigation Congress 

 still sit idle and smirk and grin, 

 while the Canadian land boomers 

 are striving with all their might 

 to use this great American insti- 

 tution to advertise their wares. No heed has been 

 paid to the repeated demands of THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE, various Western publications and many promi- 

 nent Western men that the contract for the sale 

 of the Congress be abrogated. Secretary Hooker is 

 drawing a very large salary, which the Canadians 

 are paying, and of course he is satisfied to let the 

 deal stand, even though he is not permitted to do 

 all the junketing he is said to have planned. The 

 board of governors seem satisfied to let the Ca- 

 nadians run the Congress as they please in return 

 for favors which may have been shown them or 

 which they may expect. 



Efforts to stir the executive committee of the 

 Congress to action have met with little success. 

 This is not the fault of the committeemen, many 

 of whom are anxious to have the Canadian deal 

 abrogated. It is the fault of the organization of 

 the Congress. Certain influences, which gained 



control of this great organization a few years ago, 

 succeeded in making the executive committee little 

 more than an honorary institution, whereas it was 

 designed to have a most important voice in the gov- 

 ernment of the Congress. Realizing their almost 

 helpless condition, the executive committeemen 

 one from each state have found it impossible so 

 far to arrange a meeting or devise means of rescind- 

 ing the Canadian contract made by the board of 

 governors. 



It is unfortunate that this condition exists. The 

 Irrigation Congress has done so much for the West 

 and there is still so much that it can do for the West 

 in fact, for the whole nation that some means 

 should be found to restore it to its native soil and 

 to the purposes for which it was originated. 



Business men of Ogden, Utah, whose invitation 

 to entertain the Congress was refused in order that 

 the Canadian deal might be put through, have of- 

 fered to finance the organization of a new Irrigation 

 Congress. They have gone further. They have 

 offered a permanent home for such a Congress. 



Perhaps this is the solution. THE IRRIGATION 

 AGE still has a very warm spot in its heart for the 

 old Congress and for the men who were its back- 



