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Show NOTES ...THE NEPHI RECORD... - NBPH1. FOR RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS WORK BEING DONE BY THE MEMBERS OF THE IRRIGATION. CONGRESS UTAH, UTAH STATE NEWS. mutation clause of the homestead act, Workers for the Material Advance have In many Instances in their adment of the Arid Regions of the ministration been found to result in West Are Shown by Utahns What speculation and in monopoly of the public domain to the exclusion of acbe Accomplished by Use of Can tual home building, therefore be it Water Upon Sage Brush Land. "Resolved, That we request the congress of the United States to make such modifications in said laws as will save the remaining public possible and practical, and that the lands for actual settlers who will government should supplement its found homes and live upon said present policy of levee construction lands." by a comprehensive reservoir system RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Resolutions were adopted by the throughout the arid region, not only congress favoring the immediate ad- for the purpose of conserving the mission to statehood of New Mexico, water for irrigation, but also for the preservation of life and property in Arizona and Oklahoma. the Jower reaches. The waters thus ous session. The attendance of SecUrging the immediate and absolute conserved would be of inestimable of and Wilson Agriculture retary repeal of the desert land act, and other men high in the councils of the the commutation clause of the home- value and a blessing to the people nation gave great encouragement to stead act, as recommended In the re- In the arid and semi-aridistrict. We the faithful workers, who year after port of the senate committee on pub- believe that irrigation and flood pre year have been laboring for the ad- lic lands in the last session of con- vention are two ideas to be developed vancement of the great arid region, gress. together. The reservoirs to be built should Include not only large reser and went to show that the irrigators Recommending the appointment of also all smaller reservoirs, but of the country have warm friends a commission by the president voirs, of among the leaders of the country the United States to investigate and for which feasible locations exist, and who are willing and eager to help in report such further amendments or throughout the great plain region the the reclamation of the thousands of modifications of the land laws of the construction of such small reservoirs acres of waste land now given up to United States s may be desirable to by damming the coulees and draws sage brush and cactus, and convert promote the actual settlement and should be encouraged by both the state and national governments. these dreary wastes 'into productive development of a prosperous populaand prolific farm lands for the home- tion on the public domain, the tret-te- r Advising the construction of reserin order to save the waters of voirs less. utilization of the grazing land and the Platte river in Nebraska In order And here in Utah the delegates to the preservation of the forests by to reclaim arid tracts In Wyoming and the congress were brought to a full right use. Colorado. realization of what may bo accomUrging appropriations for forept That the secretary of the Interior plished by the Judicious use of water, preservation, because of the fact that take immediate steps to secure to the and made to realize more than ever the forests are to a large extent the Indians their allotments of land on what may be accomplished by Irri- sources of the water supply through- such reservations In the arid region, gation. out the entire arid region and their and that A striking example of what may be their lands be pursurplus destruction will mean the destruction chased at fair prices and then thrown accomplished by man diverting" the of agriculture in these regions. homo-steawaste waters of the land to his own That the forests reserve law should open for settlement under the use was presented by the Idaho dele- be so modified as to act, so that they may be repermit the exgation in the form of a large sage portation of forest reserve timber claimed and made a productive part brush and a plate of apples grown on from the state In which such timber of our country. That this eleventh National Irrigaground which had previously been Is cut whenever it shall be established tion congress urges upon its members covered by sage brush, but is now to the satisfaction of the secretary in made prolific by the use of water of forest reserve that the sup- and the residents of the various charge states now enjoying the practical which would otherwise go to waste. ply of timber in any reserve Is clearThirty states were represented at ly in excess of the local demand, and benefits of irrigation and the necesof a proper representation of all the convention, and five governors That the of the United sity were In attendance, besides many States shouldcongress the various products of irrigated soil immediately repeal the In their various state exhibits at the other men prominent in the public lien land provision of the forest resLouisiana affairs of the nation. Purchase to be exposition ervation act. and enact a law whereby in St. Louis in 1904. held The new officers of the Congress private land within forest reservations are: President, W. A. Clark, of Mon- or the improvements thereon may be Protesting against the enactment of tana; first vice president, L. W. acquired by purchase or condemna- any legislation which will tend to arrest the full development of the Shurtliff, of Utah; second vice presi- tion. dent, W. C. Johnson, of Colorado; That water sheds which have been American sugar industry by extending further concessions to the employers third vice president, John Hall, of denuded of their forest by fire of cheap Asiatic labor; growth Texas: secretary, H. B. Maxson, of or otherwise should be reforested opposing the by introduction of contract coolie labor Nevada. Senator Clark and Mr. Max-so- the national government and thereaft- wherever the American flag floats, and were to their positions. er be preserved by stringent laws advising that legislative agitation or the sugar interests of this Executive Committee Arizona, D. from or destruction from graz- attacks on injury country should cease, to the end that A. Fowler; Arkansas, J. A. Van ing by livestock, and the forest re- this great Industry may develop In California, C. B. Booth; Colo- serves should be enlarged to Include common with all our other great inrado. C. E. Wantland; Idaho, F. R. the water sheds of all streams furnish- dustries. Pledging the support of the conReed; Illinois, F. C. Capping; Iowa, ing water to communities dependent gress to the Louisiana Purchase ExH. C. Wallace; Louisiana, Tom Rich- on the water supply therefrom for position. ' ardson; Kansas, C. A. Schneider; water ior Irrigation. Giving an unqualified endorsement Minnesota, Thomas Shaw;- - Missouri. That the secretary of agriculture to the Lewis and Clark Centennial J. W. Gregory; Montana, . Herbert be at Portland and advising urgently requested to make some Exposition a government appropriation of Strain; Nevada, P. A. McCarren; Ne- forestry experiments In the vicinity that net less braska, P. V. Meagley; New York. of Salt Lake City, conducive to a fur- aid of thethan fl.Ofto.ooo be made in exposition. Freeman O. Palmer;' New Mexico, G. ther tdjcvcloptncnt and preservation of A. Richardson; North Dakota, D. E. said waterKheds and IDAHO WINS CLARK CUP. the protection of Wlllard; Oregon, Malcolm A. Moody; the water supply. Is Awarded Trophy for the Most PerOklahoma, Joseph B. Thoburn; PennUrging that the national governfect Fruit sylvania, James M. Lighter; South ment fchould proceed with all pracwon Idaho flrt prize, the f 300 lovDakota, Wesley A. Stewart; Texas,! ticable exjfditlon to complete the offered cup A. by United States SenJ. Smith; Utah, Fred J. Klesel; surveys and make the neceegary plans ing A. W. ator for the best collecClark, Virginia, W. H. Heal; Washington, and estimates for the construction of of fresh tion at the Irrigation fruits O. A. Fletcher; Wisconsin. Clark the great reservoirs and canals necesa close second, was Utah congress. Capen; Wyoming, Clarence T. John- sary to regulate for navigation and for fl but rut lost of the prevalence ston. the utilization for irrigation and power of codlin mothsprize in the specimens subThe next session of the congress of the enormous volume of flood will be held In El Paso, Texas, that water that now runs to waste in such mitted. The cup for the best barley, given town having defraud Boise for the great as the Columbia, Sacra the Pabst Brewing company, was by honors by a vote of 205 to 147. The mento, the Colorado, the Illo Grande, won by the Manhattan Malting comEl Paso delegates came with a deter- the Arkansas and the Missouri and mination of securing the next con- their tributaries, and that as soon as pany of Manhattan. Mont. McNeff Bros, of North Yakima, vention, bringing with them the fa- surveyed and ready for construction, won the cup offered by the Wash., mous Mexican band, and each mem- and approved by the secretary of the Anheuser-BuscBrewing company for ber working with all his might for Interior, these great engineering the best display of hops. the honor of entertaining the dele- works should be built just as rapidly Utah won the f,V0 silver loving gates to the next s!slon of the con- as actual settlers will take the lands cup offered by President Havemeycr gress, and they came out victorious. and build homes on them and repay of the American Sugar Refining comThe big fight of the convention was to the government the cost of the pany, the trophy going to A. Rodes, Garland, while the second prize not settled until the last session on construction of the works, and a loan of was won by the Utah Sugar company Friday. It was over the resolution to the reclamation fund in the treas- of Garland. Austin Brothers of Idaho, secured third prize. favoring the repeal of the timber and ury of the United States should be The Idahoans exhibited seventy vastone act, the desert land act and the made each year by congressional aprieties of aples, mostly of shipping commutation clause of the homestead j propriation for the full amount which kind. Thee came from the Payette law. George II. Maxwell of California i the secretary of the Interior may an- and Boise valleys, the Black foot asyled. the fight for repeal, while nually recommend to congress as the lum and Welser. There were sevenEx Senator J. M. Carey of Wyoming,! amount which should be made availa- teen varieties of peaches, mostly from The grapeg, x assisted by Congressmen Shafroth ble for diMiursement for construction Payette and Boise, came from Payette and varieties, and Brooks of Colorado and others, j during tri ensuing year, all such Boise. Lewiston. where Mime of the Including fkvernor H her M. Wells loans to thf reclamation fand to be finest grapes In the state are grown, of Utah, worked to the present repaid to the fund In ten annual in was cot represent efj, because of the shipping so as to reach laws on the HVnin book. stallments as provided by the national difficultyIn Intime. Clpden The anti r j ni forces finally won irrigation grf, One stfi'Klnc feature was th flia. of the fol- That it - tf sense of tbis congress j play Jab ei ' T.efore, an I After. The by securing ' Before' is a great sai;-lowing anvndn.t rit ; tLe vote bring that the s('ira?e r,f wafers in the explant some pit Inches in diameter at the 213 ares to ? nays: west-1 in ba of tensive ca'. hnienf the base. The "After" Is a j of "Whereas, The timber and stone, ern river for fbA prevention of floods' apples, some of !h' ,1 weighing act, tLe desert land law and the com-- i and for rower and irrigation is both) twenty four ounces each. Eleventh Annual Session of National Irrigation Congress, Held in Og The new telephone exchange at den, the Greatest in the History of Sprlngvllle has been installed. the Body in Point of Attendance The present prospects are that this and Business Transacted. will be the banner year in the history of the Sprlngville yield of sugar Thd eleventh annual session of the beets. held in It is predicted that the electric rail- National Irrigationwascongress, one of the most last week, way from Salt Lake City to Sandy Ogden the in sessions history of will be completed within the next important in the organization,, every way. The twelve months.. was larger, the interest attendance The state board of pardons has conand the work- accomplished tinued for two months the application greater more voluminous than at any previ, - of Nick Haworth for commutation of sentence to imprisonment. From four to eleven cases of typhoid fever were reported to the Salt Lake City board of health each day during the month up to the ICth. Mrs. Aurora Hodge, after admitting the murder of William X. Ryan, last week entered a plea of not guilty in the district court in Salt Lake City. It is said there is not a vacant store room in Salt Lake City, and that many men are unable to enter business because of the lack of building. The increase in the enrollment ol the public schools of Salt Lake City over last year will be between 450 and 500, the total enrollment) being 11,644. Safe crackers destroyed the safe in the office of the Utah Tanning company, in Salt Lake City, one night last week, but got nothing for their pains. ' C. Sum Nichols, who founded the Evening Times, published in Salt Lake City during the boom of 1899 and 1900, Is dead, after an illness of three months. Peter Mortensen will be sentenced to death on the 2Cth for the murder of James JL Hay, all efforts of his attorneys to secure a new trial having proved futile. Raymond Talley, a Salt Lake young man, was handling a revolver which lie thought was not loaded, and as a result was shot In the leg, inflicting a painful wound. According to the morning papers, real diamonds have been discovered in Bull Valley mountains, in Washington county, the discovery being made by Colonel John Ferris. Mrs. A. F. Heckler, one of the best known women In Silver City, died very suddenly at her home on the 15th, of heart disease, death coming as she was sitting In a chair. Arrangements have been perfected mill by for the erection of a Interstate the Mining company of Gold Basin, and everything looks good for a prosperous season In the La Sal mountain region. During a family quarrel. Mrs. G. W. Muncy of Salt Lake City attacked her husband with a razor, cutting a deep gash on his face, which required twenty stitches to close. Muncy Is not seriously hurt. Edward M. Dalton. the miner who waa bo seriously Injured at the Elephant mine, Gold Mountain, early on the morning- of September 8, died in a Bait Lake hospital last week. Dalton was injured by a premature blast. An Italian confined In the Trice jail on a charge of attempting to murder a fellow countryman, made a desperate attempt to take his own life one day last work by butting his hevl against the bars, but was Anally made to desist by the deputy sheriff. Several stitches had to be taken to close up the cuts made In the fellow's head. The loss to Utah of the flret prize at the fruit exhibit at Ogden last week, owing to the presence In the fruit of the codling moth, saould be a lesson to the fruit growers of the vtate and more care and attention hould bc paid to spraying. John W. I)awson was struck by a street car In the suburbs of Salt Lake City and Instantly killed. Dawson attempted to drive across the track in front of a rapid moving car, and the motorman could not Mop his car in time to prevent a collision. h Two Inches of snow fell at on the 12th, the town profiting a peculiar apeparanre, the shade trees being In full foliage and covered with snow. Hundreds of acres of grain remain uncut, and ths lureroe is yet landing In the fields. Tb question of whether a colored person Is entitled to share en equal W tis with bis white orrt n"r a puwie nieoee Is to be tested In Slt j City, the rase being where aj f ft man refund to serve re-- i I rf.l.W?fc.ita to a uf.gro preacher 100-stam- p - Pan-gultc- d d n Et-te- Rex-bur- , page - e OF THE CONGRESS. Governor Prince of Mexico acted as president during part of Thursday's session. Secretary Wilson made a visit to the Model irrigation farm and was much surprised by the many clever devices he saw on exhibition there. Many of them, he said, were quite unknown to him before, but he appreciated their value immediately and urged that they be patented. A neat compliment was paid to Governor Sparks of Nevada by the Texas delegation on Wednesday morning, when the Mexican band, with the entire Texas delegation, went to the Pacific hotel and serenaded Mrs. Sparks, who was arriving on the morning train. The governor made a happy and appreciative response, thanking the serenaders for their courtesy to his wife and himself. The governor waa formerly a resident of Texas. Scipio Craig, editor of the Citro-grappublished in Redlands, Cal., was the representative of the oldest irrigation ditch represented at the congress. Mr. Craig owns a ranch near Redlands that is watered from Mill Creek zanja, or Mill Creek canal, if the old Spanish term Is dispensed with. The ditch which conveys the water to the Craig ranch was built not later than 1796 by Indians under the direction of the Spanish padres, who established the missions in that community. "At the experiment farm near Salt Lake," said Secretary Wilson, preliminary to his main address, "the expert in charge tells me that he has taken out 2,400 tons of alkali from forty acres already and says the ground will be ready for cultivation next year." This farm referred to is north west of Salt Lake City and across the Jordan river. Work was begun on It a little over a year ago. h, Extracts From Wllson'a Secretary Speech. During his speech on Thursday, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson said: "The principal object of this con gress in the past has been the securing of government aid In the building of Irrigation works so that the greatest possible area of the arid lands of the west might be brought under cultivation. That object has been attained, but the most optimistic friend of irrigation admits that when all the available sources of water shall have been put to use. either by public or private works, only a small fraction of the arid lands can be re claimed. In such a situation there are two things which may be done to Increase the area which can be re claimed: One is to Increase the water supply; the other is to make a better use of what we have. The work of the agricultural department, as authorized by congress. Is along tho latter line. Some of the possibilities along this line which have been suggested by our work up to the present time will be here presented, together with a'general statement of what we are doing to reallza them. "The east has one great advantage of the west In Irrigation It has a much larger water supply, owing to the heavier rainfall. Tho question of a water supply is, therefore, of much lesg relative Importance than It is in the west. In the east the main question is the agricultural one: Will Irrigation pay This, of course. In cludes the Mndy of methods which will make It most profitable. Our work In the east has gone far enough to bow that In raising small fruit and vegetables, at least, Irrigation pays well." "The husbanding of our waters that go to wafcte where the snow melt In the mountains, through government agency, is a new departure for which wo may thank President Roosevelt. All other Influences would have failed to seeura the legislation. It was a wise movement It will resuU in making homes for millions more people. It will make markets for manufacturer and business for commerce It will help to balance off the growth of our cities. It will remit in producing the hundred million dollars' worth of sugar we now buy abroad. It will do all this and much more, and still leave large areas that cannot be Irrigated." A, J. McKinnon. a former sheriff of Washington county, Oregon, was fhot and instantly killed at rinrrnn-ville- , Cat., by an lunatic from t im named the Uklah Jcrraud. ; Jerraud has escaped. ... com-blne- d |