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Show Devoted A to tie Progress VOL. IV., NO. 32. Water Along Highway May be Prosecuted TRs State Road Commission has notified the road Inspectors of and Uintah counties, that tonless the land owners along the state roads are more careful of their waste water. In the future than have been, action will be they brought against them. f;The following bulletin. No. 10, sent out by the Chief Engineer, is self explanatory and should be carefully read by every person in the basin who lives near the state highway: Sublet: liability of Careless Users of Irrigation Water. Complaints are frequently re-the office of the State Road Commission to the effect that property owners or renters along the Elate highways are permitting irrigation water to flow upon the road. ' To anyone using the roads it. la evident that such practice results in a real danger to traffic, and an injury to the pavement or other form of. surfacing. The state has relieved the counties of the burden or maintaining the State roads and is particularly Interested in seeing that no funds are expended in highway repair ,tbat la necessitated through the nejlgence of those citizens who permit, irrigation or surface water to flow from their premises and upon 'the State highways. It is highly essential that every dollar of the limited funds available to carefully conserved, and, as tax payers, those citizens should take due notice that he careless use of water causes each year the needless, expenditure of public funds Section 2840, Compiled Laws of Utsk, 1917, makes those responsible for the flooding of highways with irrigation water guilty of a mi2e::anor and a 'fine or imprisonment or both follows conviction. ' Tie tection cited roads in part a3 follows: Any peipon who wilfully ar csrelomly obstructs or injures any putlia or other highway by causing or permitting flow of seepage of wete r: or who wilfully or carelebsly T.JAD THE WANT ADS Du-chee- , ! ; 7 ? i FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR SALT TAKE PAPER THE CITIZEN CLASSES BASIN AS THE BACK COUNTRY MATCHES MONEY FOR How Can Utah Supply L. A. With Farm Products if We Forfeit all Onr Water Rights No Water, No Farming. LAKE PROJECT MOON se at . Agriculture in t(ie Qre&l UmLabBasin, ROOSEVELT, UTAH, June 15, 1927. Careless Users Of , Development o The Board of Directors of the Dry Gulch Irrigation company met in the office of the company on Thursday. President E. H. Burgess presided. The board voted to appropriate $2500.00 to be matched by a like amount by the Utah Water Storage Commission. The secretary was instructed to immediately remit the $2500.00 to the commission. The funds thus raised are to be used for the purpose of investigating and preliminary survey of the proposed Moon Lake reservoir project. The action of the board was taken after having proposed the proposition to the Water Storage Commission at their last meeting, which proposal was accepted but as there were no funds available for this use until after the first of July the actual appropriation could not be made until after that time. The work of making the preliminary survey may way at the earliest date possible. (By J. P. MAY) The commission have assured the In The Citizen, a Salt Lake Dry Gulch Irrigation company that their part of the fund will be ap- weekly, June 11th Issue, we have to some enlightening propriated at the first meeting stuff on this be held early in July. Colorado river and Boulder Dam The board also decided to have a survey made of conditions at the business. An editorial from The Uintah river reservoir. Heber Ure Telegram of the 5th quotes, and and W. H. Boulden, who have bad The Citizen adds an illuminating Then the weekly a great amount of experience in page or two. editorial an from Los Ang-gel- es this work were selected to make quotes Evening Herald, about the the survey and were instructed to start at once. The company con- Back Country of L. A. and the course Arizona, templates completing the reservoirs Colorado river. Of at Fox Lake and Middle Chain Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and other Lakes and in addition will do con- mountain states are soverign states siderable work on the lake Atwood all right, but they are back counreservoir this season. A scale of try for L. A. Or we may sky that This wages was adopted which includes L. A. is our front country. the rates of $4.00 per day for back and front stuff is becoming single hand work and $7.00 per over done. It is rather gauling to a citiday for man and team while enzen of a soverign state to be told progaged on the lake reservoir jects. Considerable routine work that his land is the "Back Countherefor be started at once so that was also taken care of by the try for an ambitious city down near the Gulf of California, a city the project may be gotten under meeting. built on ambition rather than on permits water under- - his control to The word bankrupt has come to resources and in a clime that is escape in any manner, so as to in- too men one whom the law does or good for ease and comfort but bard jure any public or other highway, for work during the time when the shall be deemed guilty of a mis- may take cognizance of as unable man should work. This city, Los to pay his debts, because Its deri-vitidemeanor. Angeles, under the guise of reclaimmeant broken benches, an Il- ing land and protecting the, lower The State highway engineers and patrolmen are Instructed to pro- lusion to the benches formerly used country from flood waters, wants tect the highways from this nui- by the Italian money lenders, which a big. dam built at old Boulder sance, and where necessary, to re- were broken in case of their failure. Crossing, or near by. But the L. The feat of Capt Charles Lind- A. desire goes deeper than this, port the violation of the law to the authorities. bergh in flying from New York to that is, the real and immediate F. H. KERR, Chief Engineer. Paris recalls that to Americans be- incentive is getting more water for Dated May 12th, 1927, at Salt long the honor of being the first to lawns and other domestic use for cross the Atlantic ocean by the air the city. In other words this back Lake City. Utah. route in May, 1919, the tractor bi- country is to give L. A. some water. When a fowl becomes sick it is plane NC-commanded by Lieut. Of course in return for taking our C A. Com. U. N flew from water rights they will furnish a as to be S, kill it, Read, it may usually best to N. Y., Lisbon, wonderful market for our farm affected by a contagious disease, Rockaway Beach, at a the produce and make us great any stop Portugal, making which, before it is recognized, may Azores. Two other planes attempt- way. spread. Furthermore, if the poul- ing the flight were unable to con But of what advantage is it to try owner attempts to treat such tinue the voyage after reaching the Utah to get wonderful markets for birds there is great danger of car- Azores. farm produce unlesa our state may rying infection from the sick to the some more to farm. Utah get The 360,000 dairy cows in the needs water as land healthy in handling or feeding. If as L. A., and much a disease becomes established in the 837 active associations Utah cannot more than feed any flock, however, some kind of treat- of the United States are producing herself now. Of course Utah can ment is advisable if possible. In case as much milk as 584,000 of the export a few canned goods and of treatment it is important that average cows of the country and Borne but buys most of its sick birds be separated from the are returning as much Income over cured Bugar, meat more than half of and healthy ones as soon as the symp-to- cost of feed as 640,000 average become noticable. dairy cows. (Continued on page four) m Paper Has 2200 es 4, . cow-testi- ng ns Subscribers Three-fourth- s of Which are in the Basin |