Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1916. 



No. 8 



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 



THI 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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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



Interesting to Advertisers 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irriga- 

 tion Age is the only publication in the world having an 

 actual paid in advance circulation among individual irriga- 

 tors and large irrigation corporations. It is read regularly 

 by all interested in this subject and has readers in all parts 

 of the world. The Irrigation Age is 31 years old and is 

 the pioneer and only publication of its class in the world. 



The Federal Government has re- 

 What cently put out a pamphlet which 



Irrigation tells about what has been accom- 



Has plished by the Reclamation Service. 



Done The report was evidently prepared 



by the publicity division of the In- 

 terior Department and states that upon lands 

 watered by government irrigation plants last year 

 crops were harvested and sold at prices that brought 

 a grand total of more than $17,000,000. 



Federal irrigation projects now under way or 

 completed embrace over 3,000,000 acres of irrigable 

 land, divided into about 60,000 farms of from 10 to 

 160 acres. As a result of recent rapid progress wa- 

 ter was made available last year from government 

 ditches for 1,450,407 acres on 29,017 farms. In its 

 irrigation work, dams and masonry, earth, crib and 

 rock-fill have been created with a total volume of 

 12,200,000 cubic yards. These include the two high- 

 est dams in the world. 



Settlers' THE IRRIGATION AGE received a corn- 



View munication some time ago from Mr. 



Of Edward Gillette, of Wyoming, chair- 



Reclamation man of the Board of Review, North- 

 ern Division, U. S. Reclamation 

 Service ; this paper presented the subject of reclama- 

 tion from the viewpoint of the settler. The entire 

 article appears in this issue of THE AGE and is 

 well worth reading by settlers and Government offi- 



cials alike. Particular attention is called to the sec- 

 tion wherein Mr. Gillette mentions the conditions 

 confronting a settler in which he emphasizes the fact 

 that only foreigners with large families who are used 

 to the plainest living and who disiegard the educa- 

 tion of their children, can be successful. The writer 

 states further that conditions should be so changed 

 that American families should be able to succeed. 



Mr. Gillette has held the office of State Treas- 

 urer of Wyoming and has been brought in such close 

 touch with the settlers and general conditions in his 

 state that his opinion is of value and the article will 

 no doubt be gone over carefully by our readers. 



A movement is on foot to bring the 

 Annual Water Users into a national body 



Congress and plans are already under way to 



of Water organize an annual Congress of Wa- 



Users ter Users who are farming under 



Reclamation Service projects. 



There has been a crying need for an annual 

 Congress of this character where the actual Water 

 Users could meet and express their views and pass 

 resolutions for the attention of our National Con- 

 gress. 



It has been clearly proven in recent years that 

 what is now known as the International Irrigation 

 Congress has outlived its usefulness and is in fact 

 merely an avenue whereby a few of the favored ones 

 may go out to meet the pay wagon. 



