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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1917. 



No. 3 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 

 MODISH IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION- ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

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

 at Chicago, 111., tinder Act of March I, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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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. 



We are presenting in this issue sev- 

 Concrete eral halftones, with appropriate 



Linings for legends, of concrete linings for irri- 

 Irrigation gation canals. These illustrations 



Canals are reproduced from a booklet re- 



cently issued by the Portland Ce- 

 ment Association of Chicago. We have a lot of 

 other cuts in preparation covering this subject, 

 which will appear in our issues of February, March 

 and April. 



Eight million acres have recently 

 Eight been eliminated from the National 



Million Forest Reserves during the past 



Acres year, and 1,100 individual 'tracts 



Released within the forest reserves were 



made available for homestead entry, 

 and the contemplation of these facts produces a 

 sigh of relief and the opinion that all good things 

 come to the man who can afford to wait. We say 

 "afford" advisedly, as in our vision are many in- 

 stances where if individuals could have secured 

 these concessions some years ago it would have 

 saved them from failure. 



Without the Chief Forester's full report no 

 definite knowledge of the areas released or indi- 

 vidual tracts made available for homestead entry 

 is at hand, but there is hope that the foolish, short- 

 sighted policy as evidenced by the forest reserve 



blanket over part of the Owens Valley in California, 

 whereby some of the wise ones of Los Angeles 

 were financially benefited, is being corrected, but 

 that is another story. 



It becomes more evident as time goes on, that 

 the Forestry Bureau is being handled in a fairly 

 clean manner, and there is little likelihood of any 

 further trouble so long as Henry S. Graves is in 

 charge. 



More 

 Letters 

 Concerning 

 Congress 



In a letter dated December 23rd, 

 from the director of one of the 

 greatest agricultural colleges in the 

 West, the following paragraph ap- 

 pears : 



"I have read with interest your 



editorial comments on the Irrigation Congress. I 

 agree entirely with you in the opinions expressed." 



This is one of the many gratifying suggestions 

 with reference to our attitude concerning the Irri- 

 gation Congress and Secretary Hooker. It is un- 

 fortunate that we are not at liberty to reproduce some 

 of the communications, with names of the writers 

 attached, as the publication of these comments 

 would clearly show that some radical move must 

 be made to bring the Irrigation Congress back to 

 its old-time standing and importance. 



It is our opinion that Secretary Hooker would 

 not have been retained in office if some competent 



