Show BIRTH OF IRRIGATION WHATEVER i visible isible symbol western western west west- V I ern gratitude foi for tho the benefits of irrigation may choose as it its I ision sion Lson there can bo no question as to toI the city which shall harbor it Irrigation Irrigation I tion by Saxons Anglo-Saxons was born horn in Salt Lake and and it is here bere the permanent memorial to its origin and its growth I should be bo erected I j In the words words' of former Governor Thomas who summoned the first irrigation irrigation ir- ir 5 congress to this city twenty- twenty it two wo years ago on t th the e success or failure failure failure fail- fail ure ure of the c- c experiment per in irrigation in I l Utah depended the tho life or death of I Ithe the attempt to make the tho western states a place of human habitation in its broader broad r sense That junction of the thc land nn and the tho water ater was essential to the success of agriculture in tho the arid west The Tho land was here herc in generous generous gen gen- erous crous quantity and the water was as available n when when practical l methods of irrigation were found To To-tho To tho energy and the resourcefulness 5 of the early day Utahn is due the valuable fa mast t that these two necessities to productivity productivity were fero harnessed for labor in unison irrigation tho the west cst of halt half halfa a n. century ago go would have remained I the west of the miner and the hunter Agriculture was was' n necessary to a permanent permanent per per- i manent population and water was i essary to agriculture Without a food supply at immediate hand the development devel- devel of the great western empire would d have ha been impossible even in inS its S its mineral resources Foodstuffs brought from long distances were prohibitive prohibitive pro pro- in price and ana were of insufficient quantity to sustain anything i i like an adequate population Without With- With j lout out irrigation the west was a a. desert with it it has become the granary of I the nation To Salt Snit Lake belongs the I honor of rendering this transformation tion possible The form of the memorial which shall be be- erected here commemorative of the union of land and water is isa va- va at t suggested Erection of a permanent permanent per per- manent temple of irrigation irrig which shall contain an irrigation irrig museum appears tho the idea dea favored by those who have evolved e the project Salt SaIt Lake Ss js read ready to welcome whatever is finally finaly final final- ly y decided upon provided it bo be ade quate I |