Show I Uintah Basin Water Vater I Our Uintah Basin needs a conservation conservation con con- con I of the water we have But it also aiso is in dire need of better appropriation and wider use of the natural stream flow The old answers wont won't do To say that we wont won't need the water until a railroad is built or or as is now cot v heard we dont don't need any more laud because we are arc not farming what hat we already have reclaimed is just plain bunk Any Ally man with ordinary sense knows known well that if California may may have two hundred millions' millions out of the federal treasury for water that Utah should at least have some of ot that reclamation fund money A portion of that fund is our money mOlley as a 0 matter of plain justice even though federal laws prescribe rules that may now shut us out or shut us s down Right along with huge projects I already underway or completed in other states is this two hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred million dollar Columbia ri river er deal That like Boulder dam is too big for the reclamation fund hence it will have to come from the general treasury Utah is in the grasp of a federalism federalism feder feder- not conducive to development development development develop develop- ment in this basin Our state has given up to a policy polley wherein wa wa- water water ter for the larger cities clues is so urgent urgent urgent ur ur- gent extraordinary measures are demanded that goes along with government by officials als at Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington rather than by the soverign soverign soverign sov- sov state To c cap p the climax clima we m might ht say save i iW W we sva are faced with a federal primitive primitive primi tive the area segregation extending from the junction of the Uintah r range ge with the Wasatch east of ot Kamas including the entire watershed watershed watershed wa wa- of the south side aide at least easterly over to Utah's highest peak King Peak Peal That means we aha shall not be permitted to have roads use the timber or otherwise enjoy the wealth from the Wasatch eastward eastward eastward east east- ward to Moon lake Is there not some moonshine In this this- i That is do we need such an area held aloof aloof aloof a- a loof It is now aloft just to have wild life remain wild and to Insure in insure insure in- in sure sanitation This basin has not had a fair fairand fairand fairand and square deal It appears like we wont won't get it unless we wc also hold some meetings ha have hac c some big men come to speak for us ants anu with us and do other things se-ni- se se ii- ii political or civic B But t we must do something If VC we just wait watt and wait walt like whipped kids afraid ld o o speak we wc shall be licked skinned skinned skin skin- ned lcd beaten our water taken taleen and our ur future retarded |