Show THE RESERVOIR SYSTER SYSTEM fortunately for utah and this whole intermountain country secretary of the inter interior lor hitchcock either has a more comprehensive knowledge of the requirements and possibilities of the great west than president mckinley or a warmer spot in his heart be that as it may here is his recent utterance regarding cr irrigation a theme of practically incalculable importance to all of the rocky mountain states this question of irrigation has passed beyond the experimental stage and both theory and practice have demonstrated the necessity of the reclamation of the vast quantities of arid land now neglected which as as was once said about australia will if tickled with a straw be taught to laugh a harvest the straw bein being water the review earnestly hopes that strong endorsements dor and operation cooperation co may be extended Secret secretary arv Hitchc hitchcock ocic from every section of tb the e west in supplying detailed information necessary for all preliminary work the scheme is too gigantic for any individual or corporation to carry to a successful completion not only because of the millions of dollars necessary to cover the expense incident to such a project but because of complications that would ensue and tempting offers to sell the rights when the proposition had matured private irrigation canals and ditch companies have proven failures in this and other states not because of the lack of feasibility and legitimacy 6 of the enterprise but because of a multiplicity of causes chief amanz them ba ing ino 0 the dependence on the natural flow of water that usually t go go dry in the time of need and because of the excessive rights sold to individuals wh who 0 are are never supplied under the contemplated reservoir or storage system however such drawbacks would not occur every one familiar with the possibilities of utah agriculture and horticulture ti knows what inestimable thin things it would mean to have ample water for ir irrigation raga purposes at all times millions and millions of gallons of water runs to waste evry essry spring which if stored could be utilized to wonderful advantages in not only the agricultural cul ural districts b but ut in the placer eing digging E ing sections and in tb the e appliance of alec electric po power the lord never intended such wanton prodigality and waste of any force or element congressional representatives from every state in this western country should be instructed ted and prepared to offer secretary hitchcock every conceivable aid in carrying the reservoir system to completion Iti it the unequalled unequal led possibilities of manufactures agriculture and mining a combination that aliat w will ill bring riches and abundance to surpass the splendor of ancient rome |