Show can utah mah s irrigable land be increased bya by A million acres I 1 A H professor of mathematics utah agricultural college MO acre feet of bra are helna being diverted from the streams of etab for irrigation purposes every year practically acre feet ot this thia water Is wasted every year it if we ne cons bonsmer loer the actual water neets of the lands to which this water la is being applied this thia reasoning la Is perfectly simple when 10 wa coal consider lr that uenh 11 has only acres of irrigated land to which the above mentioned acre cre feet of writer are being abeln applied it is L a well known tact fact established hy by the experiment station of the utah ulah agricultural college that 2 acm tet feet of water are arc amply sufficient tor for the actual of the eroca upon an acre of average land provided that the water la is properly applied this figures out that i acre feet of irrl irrigation atida water should be sufficient for our acres ot of larf irrigated abed land leaving leavan a balance of acre feet coin to waste if this could be utilized to its lt full capacity it would furnish water tor for acres of land or three times time as much nine as we ne are now irrigating an impossible dream would be the reply of fit the average irrigator to the fore ang statement but it d tru true never nevertheless thele it Is I 1 also true that it if the average canal company were restricted to two acre feet of water for each acre of land covered by its canal the lands would suffer buffer for want of water and the crops would wither and perish the average irrigator Irrl sator to Is not wasting water as tar far as he can help it he simply takes the water that Is ill hi and under existing conditions applies it to the alie best of 0 his ability ila iio gets results ant ami tile the fact that he be use several times mire inre anter than Is really necessary Is frequently no fault ot of his the fact remains however that tant two acre feet of water vater per acre are sufficient ent nhen properly applied thlin fact las hns been proven time ant and time again by the experiment station of the utah agricultural Oci coneie flege the il ills question however I 1 H can this two feet of water he be botn and PROPERLY appi applied leill the answer drawer to this question at present Is lily NO KO to recon the average in system from the point of intake to the point of application of the water and the further preparation ot of the land al B that there shall be to no waste la in ampil aepli ration cation would be b so expensive that the cash value of the 6 feet of water saved would till fill for far short hort of ing the expenses incurred I 1 say ay that at present the answer ta t the P 19 question Is probably tin nn i but utah must have more irrigated linds and aad it must obtain water to irrigate them with we ve hav bars renche the prat limit of our water is ater supply and the water to irrigate these I 1 new fields must be obtained in a rent great measure by decreasing the amount being used on our present irrigated area from 30 0 to 40 per cent of the water taken from th the streams of utah Is lost by the canal companies comi anle before it Is fa delivered to the land to which it Is to be applied show alie average canal company how it can remedy this condition and sell the water thus thua saved tor for enough to ray pay ir ir this increased expense and it will do to 0 o without any outside or legal pressure being brought to bear As long as the saving of a certain amount of water la Is a losing arf position no canil canal company Is going goine to lie break its lt neck to do this saving show the average irrigator Irr teator bow be can prepare his land and apply hla his irrigation water so that 2 feet will ge pet 1 him the its same crop that 4 feet did before and he will gladly do a provided you how bibow him at the same time where he be Is 13 gain olny to come milt kut ahead on the proposition financially waste of material Is not waste in ili the generally accepted order of things if it is possible to ireene it on at a financial sacrifice the tailings and sing plies piles at many of our large mines contain hunan hon hun dren of of drillars of that b been wasted in the of handling hand lins the ores yet we are not holding up our hands in horror at this tremendous waste the reason Is that thai ta is can tie be prevented or recovered only oly at a financial loss lose and Is therefore it at pre present ent not regarded as being wasted the of mines te is however dally daily struggling with the problem of how to economically these oroa ores so ao that this waste shall be a minimum just so it it is with the bigger problem of economically handling our lp ir waters and reducing our present apparently enormous waste of et water to a minimum the department ot of irrigation and drainage at thili the utah agricultural kollegge Col legge la Is dally daily struggling gling with this greater pr l lem ilem along alone with other they hope hop soon on to to tie able to thois that it is economically Po sIble to so adjust the rate and method of app leation 0 of irrigation water to tylo lest bench lands in utah in ill I 1 way ej ea to reduce to i a mint miam the t losses of water through surface runoff ind and seep deep percola ihn die newly created engineering gi experiment station at the utah agricultural college has here a bertila field for investigation ano one which Is pressing preening vr tr so solution lutio As the demand for ater in increases rees tile the t value in 0 at the existing irrigation water Is 1 going to rise it Is the duty of the state though its agricultural engineering experiment station ic see to it that every menns menne ord eco noial leral cally lilly eatn el tn basla at of it iret gation water Is thought out oat and then thoroughly tried out with a liberal support from the legislature and n continuation of stiv td present efforts of the college it lb 1 no idle dream to say that ln the near future we shall see 4 acre feet of water dang the work unit mat 8 acre feel are doing today and the acre feet of irrigation water thus saved causing another acres acrea A t utah soil to blossom as the robe |