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Show PLAN IS ADVANCED TO HELPFARMER STATU COSIUOli OP IllltKl TION IS AOVOCATKI. I'liinmlal AMtstntu-c I'niui llio Slate Would Save tin Day Tor Mint), Think II. T. Ilnliies, t'omiuliwloiier of IJilMir, liiimlgrnlloii nnd Htntls-tics Htntls-tics Irrlgntlou I'niblini lniHirtanl. Hlato control nnd supervision of nil Irrigation project for the reclaiming of agricultural land, with financial aid from the slain for homisteadrr nnd fanner without read) mono, In the opinion of II T Haines, commissioner of Immigration, labor mid statistics, I tho best method with which to topn with tho situation presented In Utah by landsirker coming Into tho slate with little or no tapltal llalue en) that hi of flte Is flooded with In-qulrle In-qulrle com rnlng vacant farm laud In Utah Inquiries nre coming rrom nil section of tho countr) nnd tho dry farming land In Houthenstern Utah, near the Colorado Ixirdor, I being taken up rnpldt) The trouble with the Immigrant to these farm lands howevir Is thnt the) hnvo practically no money with whli h to bit) equipment, ' sa) Maine, 'llltth rnlea nf hit, rest nre n.ke.l int nil loan made to them farmer nnd n fee often I exacted by the pcrm securing the loan for them .Most of tho dry farmer taking up land In the slate lose their farm through a foreclosure fore-closure Just at the time when tho farm begins to pay "If the stato could loan those farmer farm-er money at n fair rate of Interest and at the same time control nil Irrigation Irri-gation project, condition throughout the new farming district now opening up would be much more satisfactory Man) reclamation companies hnve filed on water right und, without doing do-ing any work, have transferred them to other companies nt a high figure I have known some water right to have been wild until the) have ri ached ach-ed a figure a high a two hundred thousand dollar without ever having hav-ing been used to reclaim land The farmer taking up the dr) hind must pay for this, while If the statu controlled these projict the water would bo put on nrld laud, nnd nt a 'considerably less figure to tho fnrmir 'than I doun iindir the present private ownership of reclamation projects" |
