THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1916. 



No. 12 



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. 



The Reclamation Record for October 

 Land informs its readers that Uncle Sam 



For still has considerable land to give to 



the enterprising citizens, men or women, 



Landless who wish to establish a home. 



Secretary Lane recently an- 

 nounced that more than a quarter of a billion acres 

 of land remain in the public domain. This is verified 

 by official figures compiled by the General Land 

 Office. This land is located in twenty-five states. 

 All. but 2,290,000 acres of it is in the far west. Ne- 

 vada contains the highest acreage. 



The exact amount of land that is unreserved 

 and unappropriated is 254,945,589 acres. Of this 

 amount, approximately 92,000.000 acres are unsur- 

 .veyed. 



From the foregoing it may readily be seen that 

 your Uncle Samuel is prepared to help an army of 

 land-hungry individuals in the way of furnishing 

 the essential base for a good living in the form of 

 land. 



The prospect for a meeting of the 

 National various Water Users' Associations 



Federation of under the auspices of the National 

 Water Federation of Water Users is good. 



Users A meeting of the various heads of 



the Association will no doubt be held 

 at El Paso, Texas, just prior to or following the 

 meeting of the International Irrigation Congress. 



The editor of IRRIGATION AGE visited Montrose and 

 Grand Junction, Colorado and Salt Lake City and 

 Ogden, Utah, in September. Representatives of 

 both the Uncompaghre and Grand River projects 

 will attend the general meeting to be held in Janu- 

 ary, 1917. 



No decision has yet been reached as to the 

 permanent meeting place of the Congress, but there 

 is a possibility that Denver may be chosen, as some 

 numbers of the executive committee seem to favor 

 that city, owing to the fact that the General Western 

 Headquarters of the U. S. Reclamation Service is 

 located there. Other members of the committee fa- 

 vor Salt Lake City, as it is the most central point, 

 this city being, in fact, located in about the geological 

 center of the scattered projects, 26 in number. 



It is hoped that in our November issue we shall 

 be able to state definitely the permanent meeting 

 place. 



Much interest is exhibited in this movement, 

 and as there are many conditions that need modifi- 

 cation and correction, the Organization should be in 

 sufficiently good working order that a committee 

 may be despatched to Washington during the next 

 session of Congress with sufficient power vested by 

 the National Federation of Water Users to command 

 the attention and respect of congressmen and offi- 

 cials of the Department of the Interior. Full reports 

 of all activities in this direction will appear regu- 

 larly in the columns of the IRRIGATION AGE. 



