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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



MAKE THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS USEFUL AGAIN 



CONCERNING the sale of the Irrigation Con- 

 v> gress to the Canadian land boomers, the Albu- 

 querque (N. M.) Herald says : 



"For years one of the most aggressive and most 

 powerful forces for progress in the whole West, the 

 National Irrigation Congress, founded here and 

 once entertained in Albuquerque, in 1908, has fallen 

 upon evil days. Now it is the International Irriga- 

 tion Congress, has been adopted by Canada, which 

 has a friendly way of absorbing American con- 

 gresses of this character, and this year will meet 

 in Calgary, Alberta. 



"For several years the Irrigation Congress, in 

 the eyes of the pioneers and workers who were its 

 organizers and chief supporters through many 

 years, has looked more like an organization main- 

 tained for the purpose of paying a salary to a secre- 

 tary than for any other use which it may accom- 

 plish. As an organization of the irrigation states, 

 organized and working to a definite end, it was all 

 powerful ; as an international organization largely 

 devoted to discussion of the theoretical side of irri- 

 gation, its interest has waned and its influence has 

 vanished. Resolutions passed by it are received 

 with no more attention in Congress than would be 

 paid to a memorial from the Friendly Islands. In 

 the United States it has trouble finding a city which 

 cares to entertain it, and last year it went to Can- 

 ada chiefly because there was no anxious line of 



communities bidding for the privilege of entertain- 

 ing it on this side of the line. 



"Yet the Irrigation Congress has done a great 

 deal of work for the West. Its backing resulted in 

 the Reclamation Service and the creation of the na- 

 tional policy of federal aid in reclamation. It may 

 become useful again ; its influence may return. But 

 it will not be so until the organization returns to 

 the irrigation states which created it, confines its 

 activities to those states and comes down out of 

 the international clouds of theory to concentrate 

 upon a definite purpose." 



EXCESSIVE FREIGHT RATES 



Reparation Awarded 



Shippers paying freight into the inter-mountain 

 territory will be interested to know that they can 

 now not only enjoy practically the same rates, with 

 few exceptions, as those enjoyed by the Pacific 

 coast terminals, but also can soon recover the ex- 

 cess paid above the legal rates for the past three 

 years. This is in accordance with a recent opinion 

 of the United States Supreme Court upholding the 

 decision of the interstate commerce commission of 

 July 22, 1911, which was enjoined by the railroads 

 before the commerce court. 



IRRIGATION NOTES 



(Continued from page 343.) 

 condition is due to light snow in the 

 mountains last winter. 



California. 



A new pump for irrigation pur- 

 poses has been installed on the Nuevo 

 Rancho property near Los Angeles. 

 Cal. 



The Modesto, Cal., irrigation dis- 

 trict is preparing to issue $610,000 in 

 bonds, to finance improvements. The 

 lands and water rights under the 

 project are valued at more than $16,- 

 000,000. Water is taken from the 

 Tuolumne river. 



The board of assessors held a 

 hearing at Fresno, Cal., Sept. 1 on 

 the proposed reclamation of overflow 

 lands along the San loaquin and 

 Sacramento rivers. Forty million 

 dollars will be needed to finance this 

 immense scheme. Of this amount 

 $5,000,000 has been appropriated by 

 the United States, $5,000,000 is now 

 being raised by the state, and the re- 

 mainder, $30,000,000, will have to be 

 paid by the owners of the lands bene- 

 fited. ' 



Louis Clark and fourteen other 

 landholders near Fresno, Cal., are 

 about to sink a 500-foot well and in- 

 stall a co-operative pumping plant to 

 irrigate 960 acres. It is a citrus fruit 

 proposition. 



The Oakdale. Cal., irrigation dis- 

 (Contnued on page 345.) 



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