Show WAFER LAND with in the reservoir and irrigation fund of the state of utai utah and in ohp th government reclamation service fund it looks as ag though uintah county ought to get an appropriation of i few tho thousand wiand plunks 1 to reclaim her surplus thousands of acres of choice arii and lands uintah county has a number blumber of ex reservoir sites oceans oceana of hood flood aster running to waste waite into the green river and thousands of acres of good land the in members embers of oe the tha state board of I and ind are anxious to put the money in this fund to use in building in reservoirs reservoir 4 to reclaim the arid and lands of the state tile the state I 1 fund und is a in crp and the government t it lund fund vi is accumulating at tile the rate I 1 several million doll it a every year wid 11 nd is there for the purpose of build in big reservoir I 1 eser voir propositions ask and ve shall receive win will 0 it is ti liuo that hat the reservoir proposition vas A as hi bi ought to tho the attention of the state L lind ind board bv a 1 few individual citizen cit izera a nn an I 1 a pat caiti ti I investigation made by se erd er d members of the board nothing has been heard of tho the matter since that time possibly Po sibly it is 13 receiving consideration now or will at some future date but it occurs to the express that it might hasten the matter for the citizens of the valley as a whole to present the matter to the board in the proper manner by a petition asing for a thorough investigation of the feasibility of the proposition this thia would give them something to work on 1 I 1 I hey bey would have to pass upon the prop atlon u one way or the other the members of the state board of land commissioners are anxious to expend the now in the reservoir fund of the state of utah in reclaim ing the arid and lands of the state but it la is presuming a great deal to expect them tu come into it a thickly settled comman ity icy and take up a proposition without the citizens K questing them rodofo and it is possible that to the land loa loard rd it appe tris as though the citizens r t ashley valley were w ere indifferent and a in m the mat matter tr it could do no harm and may result greult in III the construction of a reservoir in the alt anaker r draw to store sufficient high water to reclaim several thou tholand thousand and acres of the barren land of this valley and thereby in irease tile the population let us try it all that is 13 lacking is for some one to stop step to the finont ard take the lead in tl 0 L matter As a matter of fact tho the people are rot not indifferent but favot the reservoir another matter in connection with the water supply of this alley that should be compel eted by the ato pt ople ale is 13 the replacing of the natural dams to the chain of lakes on baldy mountain that were drained a number of years lieari ago A rock crusher engine etc aro are now standing at one of the lakes ready to begin operations and has been there over a year but the farmers had so BO much water A ater the past season reason that they are slow to lend their support to the enterprise private parties stand ready to take that matter in hand if the farmers collectively do not J L Alel latton of meeker has subscribed for shares of the stock and is ready to take it all if the people do not want to complete the work sir mr mchatton was enthusiastic over tho the prospect there for an increased water supply when he visited the lakes and stated that he spent more money in constructing a reservoir to irrigate tw farms near meeker than it would take to dam up se oral eral of the lakes at the head of ashley creek |