Show WHAT IS in S THE MATTER WITH OUR PEOPLE i till this issue 0 at tile tho progress we yS fl carrea notice that certain persons leavo leave petitioned I 1 lie file hoard board of directors ors ot 0 Pa livant irrigation district to exclude their lands from such district wo we confess it was with amazement coupled witt with chagrin that wo we read tho the llo however upon inquiry wo find that thai the matter is not so bad as wo we at first thought it seems scorns that the inal final survey ot of the proposed canal of the district runs below tho the line ot of tile the first survey and consequently that coma ot of the lands which were included lit in the district on oil the supposition that they could ho be watered by such buch canal will llo lie above tile the canal and so cannot bo be watered by it thus enuch against will somo some prop j orty owners aro are obliged to withdraw their lands from the district to all euch uch persons tile tho progress deltres to extend its cincere condolences others upon inquiry aro are found to possess sufficient suM clent water for their lands landa already and wo we say that these lands should never have boon been included lit in tho the district in ili tile tho first place hut but what shall wo we say bar what can wo think when wo we como come to those others who with no ito such reasons for withdrawing their lands but apparently actuated only by a lack 0 of enterprise er prise aro arc seeking to separate themselves from rom the development of the community by waiving tile tho llego liege of at securing water for their lands lot let us ug pause a moment and consider just what tills this may moan to us its all our community was among the first to be settled lit in the state lor l or a time I 1 seemed that wo we might be the center of 0 tile state thou then other sections began to forgo ahead of us until tor for somo soma years yeara indeed many years now wo we havo have been almost forgotten wo we had lands none better but lit tio water wo we had no means of getting our pio products ducts to market and so be raised only what wo we could ourselves consume then tile tho legislature of tho the state passed an act providing fur for tho the org of irrigation districts sor pt of our people awoke to what 1 rtha za 3 this s aci CL might bring to our it if a water supply could bo be obtained on oil tile easy terms of payment provided for by tile act and not with the thought began to lo make to ORO so or not tho the hope could be made a fact they found that tile tho water could bo be hail had and then initiated tho the ings inga which resulted in tho the formation of tho the Pa livant It irrigation district for tt it thile it looked as though all our people avero adako at last at tho oil election hold held to tho the question of tho the organization ot of tho the district 00 only y oua oui nian amz voted tn in tho 1 negative a fact which was commented upon by the Ijes Ic crat nowa news in its christmas edition no district had over ever been formed with so BO nearly a unanimous vote ot at tho people interested and it did stem that millard county was calling into its own by reason of the ambition ot of its people the results of 0 tills this election calls ell cd such comment that capitalists became interested and a railroad to run through abo district front north to south was proposed thus providing that abc acc to marlo marl tot tho lack of which hod had so be long retarded till alin development of the county in tile the meantime electric lights had be been n brur procured c all for tile ho county seat boat all or of these modern necessities of a progressive people are within our reach it wo we are arc but true to ourselves but will wo we got tile tho railroad will wp we lit in fact amount to anything if wo now by exhibiting a lack of enterprise or proper ambition in perfecting our irr gatlon gallon district suggest to outsiders that tile the voto vote on tho election for ill the tor for tile tho formation of the district was an accident and that our truo true character is what it has been su so long thought to bo be slow unprogressive for ton years after an format formation ign t the district tho the only charge up upil in concluded on oil page 8 WHAT 19 18 THE WITH OUR 1 concluded F from rom pago 1 property ro porty would bo be tor for the running expenses of the district and tor for int nt orest on its bonded indebtedness on ly y in the eleventh year would any charge bo be made forthe for or the purpose ot of paying off tho the principal ot of tile the indebtedness ed riess and then wo would have 10 years to pay this what 1 la tho the result for ten tell years wo we can have water at a nominal cost uy by tile the expiration of that time it indred not long before that chati this water will command it a price af pf three or tour four times its cost coat to us its why its like throwing away money to withdraw front from the district but more than that its disloyal to the community I 1 anti and its disloyal to your child children rall to the sons who ire now your battles and who art entitled to a chanco lr I 1 n uon udd their return andai anayo S a chance in fit their home place maybe you have what land you need io 0 o live on oil yourselves but does that excuse you for throwing away the chance of your children to have what land they need WE MUS mua NOT LET THIS THE DISTRICT FAIL we must oppose the withdrawal ot of ono one aero acre of land which can call bo be watered the progress suggests BR as tho the slogan ot of our people give us water arid and dont welch on your neighbor he needs witter water and so ao do you whether you know it or not I 1 |