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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1917. 



No. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MOUEIN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THB FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRICATOR 



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 King-Graves debate is con- 

 Continuation tinued from our issue of February 

 King- in this the March number, and is 



Graves sufficiently interesting to attract 



Debate the attention of all of our readers, 



as it covers fully both sides of the 

 question as to whether the reclamation of our arid 

 and swamp lands may be worked out more ad- 

 vantageously under federal or private control. The 

 opening talk in the debate was presented in our 

 February number, and the answer by Judge Graves 

 with the finishing talk by Judge King is herewith 

 presented. 



This subject is of such great importance that 

 it .will be well for our readers to save copies of 

 the two numbers named and go over the facts pre- 

 sented a second or more times in order that the 

 salient points presented by each speaker may be 

 fully impressed on the minds of those interested. 



The AGE will gladly publish opinions from its 

 readers on this debate. Many new facts may be 

 brought out by following this suggestion. 



In the February issue of the AGE was 

 Irrigation discussed at some length the then 



District proposed Irrigation District Law 



Law for for Oregon. This bill, with a few 



Oregon relatively important amendments 



was passed by the recent session of 

 the Legislature and will become the irrigation dis- 

 trict law of that state in June, 1917. 



The provision relative to the inclusion of cities 

 and towns in a district was eliminated, as was also 

 the provision relative to the voting by proxy. A 

 correspondent in Oregon judges from a perusal of 

 our editorial in the February number that we had 

 a misconception of the statute relating to the cer- 

 tification of district funds, and he states that this 

 section of the law is copied almost verbatim from 

 the California statute, and that from what investi- 

 gation he has been able to make the statute has 

 been productive of good results in California. 



Our informant further states that this pro- 

 vision does not prevent any irrigation district from 

 issuing bonds but does provide that whenever the 

 condition of an irrigation district meets the require- 

 ment of the statute the bonds issued by such dis- 

 trict may be certified to by the Secretary of State 

 and bonds so certified become legal investment "for 

 all trust funds, and for the funds of all insurance 

 companies, banks, both commercial and savings, 

 trust companies and bonding companies, and when- 

 ever any money or funds may by law now or here- 

 after enacted, be invested in bonds of cities, coun- 

 ties, school districts or other municipalities in the 

 State of Oregon, such money or funds may be in- 

 vested in the said bonds of irrigation districts, and 

 whenever bonds of cities, counties, school districts 

 or municipalities may by any law now or hereafter 

 enacted be used as security for the performance 

 of any act, bonds of irrigation districts under the 

 limitations in this Act provided may be so used, 



