Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1915. 



No. 3 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION 



THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 

 THE WATE* USERS' BULLETIN 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 

 THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

 CHICAGO 



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 30 years old and is the 

 pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



The Irrigation Age finds a great deal of 

 A Long satisfaction in the removal of Frederick 

 Hard Haynes Newell as director of the United 

 Battle States Reclamation Service. With Newell 

 Is Won out of the way, we believe the solution of 

 many of the problems on the Federal proj- 

 ects will prove easier and be solved with more 

 justice to the settlers. 



Newell, as the head and front of the Service 

 bureaucracy, cold-blooded, self-satisfied, with little or 

 no sympathy for the settlers; determined to make 

 the water users pay all the bills, which he and his 

 assistants had created, no matter how unjust or im- 

 proper these bills might be, presented a serious men- 

 ace to what we consider the rights of the men and 

 women who are trying to create homes in the desert 

 country. 



The Age has fought Newell and the powerful 

 bureaucracy, which he built up, month in and month 

 out. It has been a long, hard fight against a man 

 who knows all the arts and wiles of the politician 

 and the bureaucrat and who had the backing of 

 powerful political interests. For years we waged 

 this fight in behalf of the Federal water users 

 almost singlehanded. 



The battle is over. We are glad. We are satis- 

 fied with the result. 



Writes Magna 

 Charta of 

 Federal 

 Water Users 



O. E. FARNHAM. 

 There is -a name that should 

 be written high upon the roll of 

 honor of the Federal Water Users. 

 Mr. Farnham has written the 

 Magna Charta of the settlers on 

 the Federal irrigation projects. 



He has struck at the very foundations of the 

 Reclamation Service bureaucracy the incontest- 

 ability of the decisions and edicts of the Secretary 

 of the Interior and the Service. 



The opinion of the United States circuit court 

 of appeals, written by Judge Sanborn, in the case in 

 behalf of the Belle Fourche Valley (S. D.) Water 

 Users' Association, which Mr. Farnham prepared 

 and prosecuted against some of the brainiest lawyers 

 in the Reclamation Service, establishes the right of 

 the water user to seek protection of the courts, 

 just as any other citizen is permitted to do. With 

 confidence born of long bureaucratic rule, the Recla- 

 mation Service boldly denied that the settler had 

 any such right. Seeking to hide behind the cloak 

 of the United States government, the bureaucrats 

 declared themselves immune from prosecution for 

 or scrutiny of their acts, no matter how illegal those 

 acts might be. 



They contended that they could assess what- 



