Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, MAY, 1917. 



No. 7 



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 



Tin WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOE 



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. 



In our correspondence department 

 Federal appears a letter from Mr. O. E. 



Farm Farnham, Secretary of the Belle 



Loan Fourche Water Users Association, 



Controversy in which he intimates that Judge 

 King or the Department of the In- 

 terior opposed an amendment to the Federal Farm 

 Loan Act, which would have given the Water Users 

 aid. 



It is only fair to Judge King to say that while 

 in conversation with him recently and when the 

 matter was discussed he emphatically disclaimed 

 having taken the stand suggested by Mr. Farnham. 



We hope to publish Judge King's disclaimer in 

 our issue of June. 



This would not only mean the loss of the cost of 

 construction but would also represent incalculable 

 loss in crop values on land supplied by the reser- 

 voirs. 



Suggestions 

 About 

 Reclaiming 

 New Projects 



Congressman Taylor of Colorado, 

 Move to chairman of the house committee 



Protect on irrigation, conferred recently 



Irrigation with Secretary Lane regarding the 



Structures protection of Government irrigation 

 projects during these times of un- 

 rest and danger. 



Secretary Lane informed him that plans are 

 perfected for guarding the projects and that he will 

 ask Congress for an appropriation of $6,000,000 to 

 expedite placing water on project lands which will 

 be leased in order to augment the food and forage 

 supply of the west. The suggestion by Congress- 

 man Taylor is a good one as great damage could 

 be done by dynamiting any one of the larger dams. 



We are presenting in this issue an 

 an address by Judge William Rufus 

 King, Chief Counsel, U. S. Reclama- 

 tion Service before the International 

 Irrigation Congress, El Paso, Texas. 

 Judge King offers suggestions about 

 how new reclamation projects may be financed and 

 constructed and the paper as a whole is exceedingly 

 interesting, so much so in fact, as to command the 

 attention of all interested in western development 

 and the reclamation of land now lying dormant. 



It would require no extravagant conjecture to 

 liken it to the Chamberlain-Smith Bill now before 

 Congress. It is possible that this subject was dis- 

 cussed by the author of the bill and Judge King 

 which would account for the similarity of ideas. 



In the opinion of many Judge King is the bright- 

 est mind in the reclamation service, and while the 

 IRRIGATION AGE differs materially on many points 

 with the chief counsel, it is inclined to give him 

 credit for a wide knowledge of irrigation affairs 

 and possibilities. 



This impels us to suggest that if the present 

 heads of the reclamation service had been in power 

 in 1902 the conditions under which the work was 

 carried on would not have developed and there 

 would have been greater harmony all around. 



