Year- 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1916. 



No. 9 



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 FARII HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

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

 it Chicago, 111., under Act of March I, 1879. 



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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. 



In February, 1916, the state land 

 Big Lost board of Idaho entered into a con- 



River tract with the Utah Construction 



Irrigation Company for the completion of the 



Project Big Lost River Irrigation Project, 



whereby the company agrees to con- 

 struct the works including a reservoir, according to 

 plans and specifications approved by the state as 

 adequate to irrigate the Era Flat and Arco tracts 

 of the original segregation at the rate of two-acre 

 feet of water per acre. 



The construction company agrees and contracts 

 that the above described sections of the system 

 known as the first unit, will be supplied water by 

 May 1, 1918. ,This first unit contains 20,000 acres. 



The price of water under the new contract is 

 $40.00 per acre for Carey Act or private lands pay- 

 able in fifteen annual installments with interest on de- 

 ferred payments at 6 per cent. 



Those holding contracts with the Big Lost 

 River irrigation project will, in all cases, be required 

 to pay the full $40.00 per acre for water no matter 

 whether or not they held contracts with the original 

 promotors for a less price. It was a notorious fact 

 that under the old regime various and sundry prices 

 were to be paid for water. Under the new deal" all 

 will pay the same price, but those who held con- 

 tracts with the promotors for less than $40.00 will 

 be required to pay the difference between their old 

 contract price and the present figure quoted. Many 



buyers got in under the old company for as low as 

 $25.00 per acre, and it is hinted that many who could 

 pay spot cash were let in at an even lower price ; 

 in every instance these people will be compelled to 

 pay the difference between the amount paid in and 

 the present established price $40.00. 



This is a move in the right direction and the 

 same plan should be adopted by other states. It is 

 expected that other similarly mismanaged projects 

 in Idaho and elsewhere will be handled in this man- 

 ner and that great good may result to the original 

 entrymen and those whp undertake the gigantic 

 work of rehabilitation. 



Many 

 Uses for 

 Henry's 

 Ford 



The latest word about the extermi- 

 nation of gophers is a statement in 

 the Reclamation Record of recent 

 date. The process is carried out by 

 the assistance of that much maligned 

 but very useful outfit known as a 

 Ford car. "Where strychnine fails use a Ford." 



It is known that gophers "got wise" to strych- 

 nine, but this new method is fatal. The system is 

 to attach one end of a rubber hose to the Ford ex- 

 haust pipe and place the other end into the gopher 

 hole, making the joint tight with a little dirt pressed 

 down with the foot, thus filling the hole. Run the 

 Ford for a few minutes, and this latest Ford "peace 

 potion" reduces Mr. Gopher to a state of innocuous 

 desuetude. A man with a Ford or for that matter 



