Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, JUNE, 1917. 



No. 8 



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 IRRIGATOI 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

 CHICAGO 



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

 at Chicago, 111., under Act of March t, 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. 



No matter what the trend of the 

 speculative market, many author- 

 ities believe that the developments 

 of the war will have no injurious 

 effect upon investment securities, at 

 least not of a permanent nature. This is partic- 

 ularly true of irrigation securities in the form of 

 district bonds, according to J. Rupert Mason, of the 

 firm of J. Rupert Mason & Co. of San Francisco. 



Irrigation 

 Securities 

 Not Affected 

 By War 



We have received from John Wiley 

 Davis' & Sons, New York, a new work on 



Work on irrigation by Arthur Powell Davis, 



Irrigation director U. S. Reclamation Service, 



Construction 'entitled "Irrigation Works Con- 

 structed by the United State Gov- 

 ernment." 



This work contains over 400 pages of valu- 

 able and interesting matter concerning work by the 

 U. S. Reclamation Service and illustrates and de- 

 scribes all of the prominent projects including Yuma, 

 Salt River, Oreland, Grand Valley, Uncompahgre, 

 Boise, Minnidoka, Huntley, Lower Yellowstone, 

 North Platte, Truckee-Carson, Rio Grande, Uma- 

 tilla, Klamath, Bell Fourche, Strawberry Valley, 

 Okanogan, Yakima and Shoshone. 



Director Davis has utilized his collection of 

 data in the preparation of this work to good advan- 

 tage and the result is a finely illustrated and clearly 

 assembled description of these vast enterprises. 

 The book should be in the hands of every one in- 

 terested in private or federal irrigation work. 



Transfers of water rights appurte- 

 May riant to one piece of land to another 



Lose on Carey Act projects, after patents 



Water for the land reclaimed by irrigation 



Rights companies have been issued to the 



state by the Federal government, 

 may result in settlers in the Twin Falls district in 

 Idaho losing thousands of dollars, according to in- 

 formation brought out when Edward Damman of 

 Twin Falls appeared before the state land board at 

 Boise recently. 



Damman wished to file on a piece of land in 

 the Twin Falls south side tract. He wanted to di- 

 vert water that had been made appurtenant to forty 

 acres of land to another forty following the action 

 of the irrigation company, in cancelling the- contract 

 for water on the first forty. He said the land from 

 which water had been withdrawn had been sold for 

 taxes by Twin Falls county. 



L. W. Wells, Carey Act agent for the federal 

 government, was in attendance at the meeting. He 

 informed Damman and members of the land board 

 that the department of the interior would not per- 

 mit the transfer of water rights, although they were 

 recognized as personal property, from one piece of 

 land to another after a patent for an irrigation 

 project had been issued. 



It was pointed out by Mr. Wells that the Twin 

 Falls South Side company had segregated 240,000 

 acres of land but had sold water rights on only 

 200,000 acres. He said that to leave one piece of 

 land without water and transfer the contract to an- 



