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Show ION LAKE PROJECT MEETS OPPOSITION IN WAGHINGTON Objection Raised Against Increasing Productiveness Of Any Irrigated Lands Govenor Blood is in Washing ton interviewing Secretaries Ick es and Wallace, and others concerned, con-cerned, in an effort to get immediate im-mediate results on the Utah Public Pub-lic Works Program. While there is some encouragement encourage-ment on Municipal projects. The Moon Lake and Deep Creek projects pro-jects are very strongly opposed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Wal-lace, on the ground that he is trying to curtail production rather rath-er than improve the productiveness productive-ness of any lands. j In other words, we pioneers of' the Uintah Basin who have spent nearly thirty years in trying to build homes and make something of this inland empire, are now told that the less we raise the better. The more of our crops that burn up the better. They need our few dollars to buy the wheat raised in the great wheat belts of the country. If the Uintah Basin were adding add-ing to the much talked of excess supply of wheat there might be some argument, but we never have even raised enough to supply sup-ply our own needs. Flour, Fruit, Vegetables, Cereals, even grain for our livestock is shipped into the basin. And then they tell ua we should not have the Moon Lake Project, because we jare already raising too much. This is supposed "to be an agricultural section and yet we are denied the necessary water to raise enough crops to take care of our own needs.. In common parlance, "Is that nice?" Where do we come in? The N.R.A. raised the prices of the things we consume, but does not increase our payrolls, because we have none. The wheat adjustment ad-justment plan helps the . wheat not even raising enough to equal of these, and now when we want to put across an irrigation project, pro-ject, to help water our lands, and give us some much needed employment, we are met with disfavor. Gov. Blood i3 still on the job, and it looks like he needs some support. Let's give it to him. Let's stress the fact that we are not even raising enough to epual our own consumption, and that farms once productive are drying dry-ing up for the lack of water. Wp need this project, but it looks like we will have to do a lot of "Hollering" if we get it. |