Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1917. 



No. 11 



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 WATE USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRICATOE 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

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

 at Chicago, 111., under 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. 



For more than thirty-two years 

 Irrigation the editor of this publication has 



Age Will watched the progress of irrigation" 



Enter New affairs. During that term he has 

 Field noted with interest an almost end- 



less procession of so-called irriga- 

 tion journals as they tried their wings on the finan- 

 cial breezes, only to descend to oblivion with a dull 

 thud when the sustaining bank-book was with- 

 drawn. 



While nearing the end of his thirty-second year 

 in the editorial chair, the publisher of the AGE ad- 

 mits that the term "vicarious" is not without spe- 

 cial significance in connection with an irrigation 

 journal. The subsistence is almost "precarious" at 

 times. 



But notwithstanding the vicissitudes of the 

 Irrigation Age, due perhaps in great measure to its 

 honest expression of opinion regardless of the- 

 wishes of reclamation officials or gain-seeking in- 

 dividuals, it has continued its regular appearance 

 at each succeeding month until today it can look 

 back with satisfaction at the record. The editor has 

 the pleasure of knowing that his efforts have not 

 been without fruit, either in friends or enemies. 



And while the AGE lias met its obstacles and 

 solved its problems, irrigation has been undergoing 

 a mighty change. In this thirty-two years of 

 transition, irrigation has been beset by difficulties 

 and impediments. It has suffered from lack of un- 

 derstanding both by those who built and those who 

 bought. It has been exploited for the especial bene- 



fit of the promoter's pocket-book. It has been legis- 

 lated at both too frequently and to meagerly. It 

 has been organized, disorganized and reorganized. 



There has been a deadly parallel between irri- 

 gation and the IRRIGATION AGE. 



\\~ith a record of thirty-two years devoted to 

 the cause, the editor feels that his publication has 

 still a major part to play in further development 

 of this great industry. It is confidently hoped that 

 the Age may continue its work along lines that shall 

 be profitable and acceptable to its thousands of 

 readers. 



Looking into the vista of years that will write 

 the future history of irrigation in the United States, 

 the editor forecasts a period of organization and 

 evolution. Confronted by numberless problems of 

 administration, water users must, for their own 

 protection, form themselves into an association 

 through which they may act in unison for their 

 mutual profit. 



With the formation of organizations will come 

 the demand for cooperative control of irrigation proj- 

 ects. In this direction are innumerable problems 

 that must be solved if there is to be financial suc- 

 cess. 



It is toward this goal that the AGE will direct 

 its future activities. Plans, now in the making, 

 contemplate the creation of a great water users' 

 convention to which the representatives of all local 

 associations will be sent. Upon the deliberations 

 of this gathering will depend much. It will have 

 the power to become a dominating force in irriga- 



