THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1915. 



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, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

 CHICAGO 



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

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



[t 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 costs of the Federal irrigation 

 Settlers projects are to be fixed soon, "for 



Must Act all time." Secretary of the Interior 



as Unit, Lane's final Board of Review will 



and Quickly meet this month to begin passing 



upon the reports of the various 

 project revaluation boards. Once the Lane supreme 

 court hands down its decision, the water users* 

 hands are tied. 



Xow is the time for action. It must be con- 

 certed action action participated in by the settlers 

 on every Federal project. The executive committee 

 of the National Federation of Water Users' Asso- 

 ciations should call a meeting of representatives 

 from each project. This meeting should be held at 

 an early date. A general policy should be agreed 

 upon. Able men, acquainted with the problems of 

 the water users, should be selected to present the 

 settlers' case before the final board and Secretary 

 of the Interior Lane. No expensive lawyers need 

 be hired. There are plenty of brainy, whole- 

 hearted men among the settlers themselves who are 

 competent to present the case. Any one of these 

 men, no doubt, will volunteer, gladly, to give of 

 his time any amount necessary to fight his battle 

 and that of his brother water users. 



It will cost some money ; not much ; only a 



few cents per settler. The returns will be in dol- 

 lars. Every project, every settler, should help. 



The National Federation, which is the most 

 powerful weapon in the hands of the settlers, has 

 been hampered for more than a year through lack 

 of funds. Nevertheless, the officers of the Federa- 

 tion have fought on, paying their own expenses 

 and many other costs. They have already accom- 

 plished much. They can do lots more if each proj- 

 ect will contribute its share toward the expenses 

 of running the Federation. 



Battles are won by organized, concentrated 

 armies. Scattered fire is wasted ammunition. 



We urge President Earl B. Smith of Somerton, 

 Ariz. (Yuma project), and Secretary O. E. Farn- 

 ham of Newell, S. D. (Belle Fourche project), to 

 take this matter into their own hands, set a date, 

 a place of meeting and call a convention of dele- 

 gates from all the projects, under the auspices of 

 the National Federation. We bespeak the full sup- 

 port of the other members of the Executive com- 

 mittee. Fulton H. Sears of Fallen, Nev. (Truckee- 

 Carson project) : Scott Etter of Carlsbad, N. M. 

 (Carlsbad project), and George E. Rodman of 

 Sunnyside, Wash. (Sunnyside project). We are 

 confident each one of them will endorse quick 

 action by the President and Secretary in this crisis. 



