Thirst 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1916. 



No. 3 



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Secretary 

 Lane 

 and His 

 Aides 



From Secretary Lane's annual re- 

 port: "The waters that flow idly 

 to the sea could be made to support 

 not less than 50,000,000 people if 

 turned upon the land that otherwise 

 will remain pasture land or alto- 

 gether worthless. The demonstration has been 

 given that the lands of little rain can be made more 

 fruitful than those where the rainfall is abundant. 

 Land and water we have ; the problem of bringing 

 them together is one only of money." 



Brief as is this utterance, it embodies the spirit 

 of a great change in the work of reclamation by the 

 government. With such men as Elwood Mead and 

 L. B. Williamson, one of the great factors in the 

 construction of the Panama canal, at the head of 

 the work it will speedily be put upon an "efficiency" 

 basis that should soon lessen the burden of the 

 water-user and vastly increase his benefits. 



Mr. Mead is certainly equipped with the ex- 

 pert skill and with the detailed experience of what 

 irrigation has done for Canada and the Antipodes 

 and if he be given a free hand will evolve a solution 

 for many vexing "reclamation" problems. 



It is gratifying to note the eager- 

 Elwood ness with which the water-users of 



Mead's the country have seized upon the 



Plan latest recommendations of Dr. El- 



Endorsed wood Mead for the improvement of 



the Reclamation work of the gov- 

 ernment. 



It is not an experiment, this of "ready-made 

 farms," which is to be put into effect on two of the 

 government projects. Its success, in the eyes of the 

 farming world, is a foregone conclusion. And so 

 the suggestion is now being made that the western 

 states co-operate in an appeal to Congress to vote 

 a sum large enough to put into effect on all govern- 

 ment projects the Australian plan of the "ready- 

 made farm." It is believed that $5,000,000 will be 

 needed on the twenty-eight government projects. 



The state legislatures are already preparing for 

 endorsement and committees will soon be on the 

 way to Washington to start the movement for con- 

 gressional action. 



It appears as though the best results that will 

 be obtained from this action will be to finally stop 

 the great rush of settlers to Western Canada, to the 

 land of the "ready-made farm." 



