Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1916. 



No. 7 



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 FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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California 

 Will Have an 

 Irrigation 

 Day: May 13 



In Glenn and Colusa counties, 

 California, the water users have 

 decided to have a big celebration 

 annually on what they will term 

 "Irrigation Day." This will be 

 the first year for the event and the date is May 13. 

 Governor Hiram Johnson is to be the principal 

 speaker. 



The central idea of "Irrigation Day" is to arouse 

 the people of the two affected counties to a con- 

 sciousness of their opportunities in irrigation. Ex- 

 amples of irrigation will be inspected and publicly 

 discussed by able speakers, including, besides the 

 governor, Dr. Elwood Mead and Colonel Harris 

 Weinstock. 



It is planned to inspect many irrigated farms 

 and orchards over the two counties. 



The Need of 

 Water Users' 

 Associations 

 in the West 



In a circular addressed to the 

 water users on the Truckee-Car- 

 son project, the government man- 

 ager, Mr. F. G. Hough, makes an 

 appeal for organization that has 

 the right ring to it. For organization means har- 

 mony, a merging of the interests of the one in the 

 interests of the many. In a personal letter from 

 Mr. Hough we learn that the circular is already 

 bearing fruit. 



"In your April issue," he says, "I note several 

 references to the need of drainage on the Truckee- 

 Carson project. This matter is receiving a great 

 deal of attention and the water users are taking 

 steps to perfect an organization for carrying on this 

 work under a proposed contract with the Reclama- 

 tion Service under the terms of the Reclamation Ex- 

 tension act. The water users have requested as- 

 sistance from the Reclamation Service in effecting 

 their organization and they have been advised by 

 Chief Counsel Will R. King that a legal advisor will 

 be sent to the project for this purpose." 



Irrigation Men 

 Hold Big 

 Meeting in 

 Washington 



The western delegates who at- 

 tended the April Irrigation and 

 Drainage Conference in Washing- 

 ton have returned to their homes 

 thoroughly satisfied with the re- 

 sults of the meeting. 



Delegations were present from all of the west- 

 ern irrigation states, as well as from most of the 

 drainage states of the south. 



Resolutions were passed urging Congress to 

 give favorable consideration to the Jones bill and 

 the Smith bill, both of which now are pending. The 

 Jones bill would enable the federal government to 

 guarantee the interest payments on approved irriga- 

 tion or drainage projects. It would be materially 



