Year- 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1915. 



No. 11 



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 PARK HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN 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 t, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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 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. 



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tt may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age 

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 pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



"At the next session of Congress we 

 Beware should work to get what we want 



of the for this project." 



Glittering Project Manager Camp of the 



Bait Klamath (Ore.) Federal project 



made the above statement recently 

 to the settlers in his project. 



His words are filled with dynamite. He asks 

 one project to array itself against others, to battle 

 in Congress for funds to pull wires, to lobby. 



This is no time for the Federal Water Users 

 to be arrayed against each other. Only united action 

 will bring from Congress the reforms yet needed to 

 make life on the projects worth while. These re- 

 forms are far more important than the dollars needed 

 to enlarge any project. 



And yet Federal project managers are sending 

 up similar cries in Montana, in Washington, and in 

 other states. Xo doubt the old Reclamation Service 

 crowd would be glad to see the Water Users fighting 

 among themselves. Do not take their bait ! 



The revaluation reports will probably go before 

 the next. Congress, if Secretary Lane's "Supreme 

 Court" completes its work. Every Federal Water 

 User who has studied the work of the local boards 

 realizes the necessity of concerted action by the 

 settlers in all the projects, if any results beneficial 



to the Water Users are to be obtained. Otherwise, 

 all this show, which the settlers must pay for, will 

 bring only a nice coat of whitewash for the Reclama- 

 tion Service. 



And how easy it will be to smear on the white- 

 wash, if the Water Users are busy scrambling for 

 stray pennies to build more of their projects. 



Let your Congressmen pull the "money wires." 

 The Federal Water Users cannot afford to be- 

 come petty lobbyists. 



Mix a Little 

 Play With 

 the Work on 

 the Farm 



Rural communities need play in 

 fact, no place needs play more. Liv- 

 ing becomes a hard, iron-clad propo- 

 sition with no surety of anything 

 save the deadly monotony of the 

 daily grind, unless it be relieved by 

 some form of occasional recreation. 



Play was considered by our forefathers to be 

 a creation of the "evil one," and to really stop work 

 and to play was a long step on the road to eternal 

 punishment. The trend of ideas is changing, and 

 today we are finding in play much that is not only 

 good, but absolutely essential to the physical, men- 

 tal and moral development of the country. 



To the rural community the economic value of 

 recreation is of great importance. It is not only of 

 value to the farmer to keep his sons and daughters 



