Show o IRRIGATION PROBLEMS SUD SUBMITTED TO MANY l t. t EXPERT ENGINEERS Professor ProCessor 0 O. W. W n of tho Utah experiment station Is just send send- lug out one thousand copies coples of a to ascertain the opinion of irrigators and irrigation Irrigation Irrigation gation engineers and lawyers through throughout l out tho the west concerning two fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental problems In irrigation I tice Lice These problems are first the present use of ot irrigation water and the possibility of at extending Irrigation to more economical use and second the water-logging water of soil soU and concen concen- of ot alkali due to over irrigation and seepage from canals The inquiry contains twelve questIons questIons quest- quest Ions tons on each problem and each questIon questIon question quest- quest Ion Is in itself of ot vital Importance Professor ProCessor Isra Israelsen lsen considers It very It-very very necessary In order to advance irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion in n this state that Utah Irrigators irrigators irrigators tors take a special interest in this thi investigation and that every quest quest- forwarded be carefully filled out and returned to Logan The investigation Is not limited to the stale te of ot Utah since it is being conducted by Professor ProCessor Israelsen Inthe in inthe inthe the capacity of ot chairman of ot the committee committee com on Irrigation of ot the American American Ameri Amerl- can cin can Society of ot Agricultural Engineers and by his fellow tellow worker Professor Protessor H. H H E. E Murdock of the University of Montana also a member of at the com om- tom tom- The Investigation was authorIzed author authorIzed authorized by the Society of ot Agricultural Engineers The entire west will be covered by this About two hundred of ot the one thou thousand nd copies oples have hae already been forwarded to various government and state engineers engineers engineers en- en en en- and professors connected with irrigation work and about eight hundred hundred hun bun dred Bred are being forwarded to persons connected with private Irrigation en- en en en- Approximately 75 copies of tho the will be distributed in n the state of at Utah Some very ery Interesting answers have already been received by the committee on Irrigation and it seems evident that a large percentage percentage per per- ge of ot the copies forwarded to government men will be r turned r-turned at atan atan atan an early date 0 o 0 |