THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1916. 



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 FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



The Executive Committee of the National Fed- 

 eration of Water Users' Association 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. 



Work on the organization of Federal 

 Will Water Users, with a view to holding 



Name an annual meeting, this meeting to be 

 City held permanently in a centrally lo- 



Soon cated city*, is progressing and plans 



will no doubt be sufficiently ad- 

 vanced to permit the announcement of the city 

 chosen in our issue of October. The general opinion 

 seems to be that either Ogden or Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, is the logical center of all Federal irrigation 

 projects, but there is a feeling among a few of those 

 interested that Denver, owing to the location there 

 of the general western offices of the Reclamation 

 Service, would be a better point. As, however, 

 there would be nothing gained from direct contact 

 with the western branch of the Reclamation Service, 

 it is likely that either Ogden or Salt Lake will be 

 chosen as the meeting place and Mecca of the water 

 users. 



A recent visit to Newell, S. D., the 

 National headquarters of the Secretary of the 



Federation National Federation of Water Users' 

 of Water Associations, revealed the fact that 



U^fers this organization has now among its 



membership a large number of the 

 associations" under Federal control and it was de- 

 cided at a meeting held at Newell, August 14, tp 

 merge the American with the National Federation 

 and work in harmony to complete a plan so that all 



of the associations may be enrolled in membership 

 in time for the first annual meeting in January, 1917. 



The Water* Users Associations now working 

 under this plan are as follows : Lower Milk River 

 Water Users' Association, Minidoka Water Users' 

 Association, Tieton Water Users' Association, Pecos 

 Water Users' Association, Shoshone Water Users' 

 Association, Belle Fourche Valley Water Users' As- 

 sociation, El Paso Valley Water Users' Association, 

 Elephant Butte Water Users' Association, Yuma 

 County Water Users' Association, Klamath Water 

 Users' Association, Truckee-Carson Water Users' 

 Association, Huntley Water Users' Association, Salt 

 River Valley Water Users' Association, Sunnyside 

 Water Users' Association, Umatilla Water Users' 

 Association. 



It will be seen that a majority of the associa- 

 tions are members. The writer expects to visit 

 within the next month the Grand Valley and Un- 

 compahgre Associations in Colorado, the Strawberry 

 project in Utah, the Orland in California, the Kla- 

 math in California and Oregon and the Payette- 

 Boise project in Idaho. Later visits will be made to 

 various other projects, and it is expected that nearly 

 all of the thirty-two organizations will be enrolled as 

 members of the National Federation of Water Users' 

 Associations before December 1st, 1916. 



A well known organizer will go into the field at 

 an early date and will visit the various associations 

 at the time of their annual mass meetings to explain 



