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Show TEH THETAS MEET PAGE PArTTTTTt nvs acres in Duchesne and Uintah coun- which he measured the water sup- river storage business to sew us ties now provided with water right. ply. In his figuring he took the all up. Nature put a natural barIn that same story we listed the water out of the Duchesne about rier between us and the rest of our a rim of mountains, and we projects that are cheap for reclaim- eight miles above our county seat, state, no good road yet connecting ing, and the total is 132,200 acres, and then south and east of Du- have us Provo and Salt Lake City. with or a total of 416.678 of cheap land chesne he had eight tunnels, ce- We have at least one- - third of all J. P. (By for which there is water. We also ment lined, MAY) mostly and before the noted the fact that on Dead Mans water should reach Duchesne he the land, measured in acres, for which there is water, in Utah. One In the Salt Lake Tribune of May bench, all in Utah, there is ap- had a canal, a young river bed, city block in Zion may he worth 27th,. appeared nearly a column proximately 300,000 acres of good made of reinforced concrete, supthe ported on pillars across the mouth more than all this basin is today, About the Colorado river water land and ample water for it in canbut what makes Zion? who made and White rivers, but of Indian and Strawberry canyons. it? question. The heading of the story Yampa Farming, stock raising, and als would have to be constructed course such a supply of water, did it and must do it. Mania, "River Rights Must Be Protect- in Colorado. But this grand total Of mining, demanded by some idealist at Denwill be small for quite ed,,' and Utah Must Protect In- is 716,678 acres twice the total the ver ufacturing a a while. and Washington, demanded terests of Entire People in Colorado Tribune story would allow us, and, big reservoir or two. Las in. The following data is May we not together and out Dead Mans bench, we leaving Estimates made for reclaiming find some way to get ourselves? because t, protect is not it interesting have considerably more than our the Dead Mans bench area reached our basin we Is time not that it viz: put Salt Lake daily paper notes. about the same total as the above, on the map, and insure a fair state"Of the 300,000 acres now irrigaReclamation in the Uintah Basin and figures were based on somement of our wealth being pubted,, or partially irrigated from the has had a hard time. Utah forces In lished? How what the same requirements. shall we supinely Colorado river system, about 175,-00- 0 have not been in harmony with any1 order t0 include a maximum area wait on this long federalization acres are in Uintah Basin game? move out here. A proposed res-i- n ir each project, and to meet Old and we let California Shall "The story then tells in what coun- big section is a big eral demands as to supply, large in the some for water our have Mexico ties the remaining 125,000 acres is, "withdrawal, Ouray coming up nearly to cost figures were necessary. Today trade or for .and .continues, The irrigated area Randlett. The South Myton nothing? and when bench a large part of these two areas may water it shall not be the Uintah in Basin, when the need country, that is not patented land, be reclaimed for about half of the available? injnay justify, probably can be is also withdrawn. On white river' red tape costs, creased to approximately 3 50,000 we have 16,000 acres of excellent! governments this goes along with other WOMANS AND PARTICULARBut acres IP THE WATER IS STILL land and ample water for it, un-- 1 history with which many a home LY THE FARM WIFES AVAILABLE. (The capitals are touched, just like Escalante saw it. planted on dry benches and living EMANCIPATION ours) . Simon Bamberger offered to reclaim on hope, was fimiliar ten to twenty How is that for misstatement or that land for half of it, and do it (Continued from page four) years ago. Old timers here will bunk.? We have twice that much according to government require-- j remember the New hope, 7,700 land, AND WATER FOR IT, TOO. ments. His offer was turned down. acres, still unreclaimed, although Nation could be tolerated, many Are,, they going to keep us sewed Why? Albert H. Kneale came to there is ample water for it, and the herself and children (silk stockings lip,, as it were, until that dam shall see writer about it, but nothing land is in that triangle formed by and other silks were not a requisbe built, and then let us have what could be done. The Uncompaghre Roosevelt, Myton and Ft. Duchesne. ite. even for tht- calnriesr Miss.) in those days had an especthey dont need in California and Utes need less than half of the land The Blue bench country is another Woman need of courage to give her ial Is it not time that and there was a chance to get all sad Old. Mexico? Old Pleasant Valley, power to break the bonds sight. with the people of this Uintah Basin were they needed rclaimed, provided South of Myton, is another. Writer which of sentiment the laws and looking into tms Dusmess a little with dam, canals and laterals, for has made the, statement is private, had for orescribed the her ourselves? Dont yu think so, nothing, no cost to the Indians. we are bold enough to publish it, limits of her privileges. fellow citizens? In that Tribune We are informed, hut have not dont want this basin developed in modern times that It is story we find, under a sub heading verified information, that no filing VET. NO, not YET. It is not time. she has only been considered an equal the for power site may be made on any "Some projects not pressing, Strawberry water could be taken sharer with man, of humanity; yet following: stream in Uintah Basin because of over into Utah lake area and in- did not the great Creator make of "The bigger projects, none of this Colorado river storage business. directly into Salt Lake City mains, a them with a destiny in which is now cinsidered economi-all- y Eleven states, out of forty-eigh- t, river water, which onepair, by trading Jordan on the other? feasible, and therefore not of are known as public land states, pumped up on the hill side, for Since womandepended proved that she could pressing interest, include the South that is, the other thirty-seve- n canyon waters at Draper, Sandy, stand on a par with her husband, llyton, Pariette , Leland benches, states own the land, mostly. Those etc. That cost $3,250,000 approx- that only the opportunity to exerprobably 60,000 acres; Deadman eleven states, the mountain states imately. Now we are to see a big cise her perogative, since she was bench, on Utah Colorado line, prob- and the coast region. When, the project on Provo and Weber rivers allowed a voice at the poles and ably 50,000 acres in Utah. We government owns most of our land costing about $175,00 per acre ft., other n what a left out a few. words not important shall we let it also own the water we are informed. Out here we fig- munity interests andrights, in in in the subject, and to save space). too? This federalization is going ure that it takes three acre feet these reforms she was society; most ably About a year ago the writer per- too far, in fact it has gone too to irrigate one acre, but if we ad-- 1 assisted, or rather and upheld guided sonally spent some cash, and time, far now. Cur state is never sure, mit that two such feet jvilldofor by the stronger sex, and this not And with the aid of several indivi- it would seem, just when its title an acre, the cost is mighty high to its detriment. duals and officers we assembled the to school sections is really good, as We have before us a story pubThe wife became a real first detailed list of reclaimed lands the Carbon coal land, cases have lished in the Tribune, about two companion and triend. helpmate, published in the Eosin so far as we proved. If there is mineral on the months ago, telling about Mount in planning an execution as neithknew, and the total, listed in thirty land ct mav not he held, and our Pleasant citizens meeting the Utah er could have done alone. All areas, is 284,478 timber is all tied up, good as for- - water storage commission, asking honor to the man who stood eirht lines or est reserves are, in fact the best for help on another deal to get shoulder to shoulder in this fight and only good side of this federal- - some of this eastern Utah water of the emancipation of w.oman and This Of the farm wife in ization of this thinly populated over into tbe Great Basin. TINGLEY & SONS deal involves the tunnel, etc., to Again the steady help of particular. western region. these ' take Price river water over to Sail- well balanced men, while Not Feasible? Why? BUYERS OF All ot the water in Duchesne and; pete. Tribune story before us says upholding a just cause preserved White rivers that is unappropriated' the project will cost about $800.- - these zealous workers from over- r . sd, Wool, Honey, Pelts and that means about all of it in, 000, and Utah Construction com - balancing, onesidedness or m some pany will do the work for $475, had toppled the structure. Harriet White river and much of the and all lawfully could be lead onto those 000, and Price river storage people Beecher Stowe has been said next l furs. lands adjoining the rivers for will sell enough water, 13,500 acre to Lincoln, to have been the emandry caught cost. An old time pio- feet, for $125,000. small very cipator of the slaves. Her every we need In unread storage years dry with whiskers, haracteristic was in direct opposi- neer, long UTAH MYTON, water, but we have the watei, andjtion to that of the Kansas Crusa- and .mathematics in engineering P. O. Box 54. science, could handle the job if he we have many mountain lakes that ers. It was such woman as this had just men, equipment, of the will serve us as natural reservoirs, author who were most instrumental far above the silt problem, high up in bringing about the worlds ordinary kind and grub. u:rAbout six years ago a reconiz- - in Utahs highest range. Of the greatest reforms. All ages have had great women nrce. cr preliminary survey was 284,000 acres we have reclaimed, we are of half and it, bench as cropping well as great men; but while actually for South made Myton to estimates departdirected the by according woman's influence was no mean by the federal engineer ' 1C 3 sheets paper and 100 Ness ment estof 323, the on the stage of life, she was factor agriculture, the, Denver office, placed with your name or Lake And that Salt acre. When denied City. Bldg., the privilege to exercise her at $147.50 per t name of your farm and imate came out (his figures is about all 22,000 people may han- powers. the report Though fitted by nature Lress neatly printed. $2.00. took up the sub- dle of irrigated land. and training to be a leader, her writer published) :t linen paper. Only a few But if our big daily newspaper talents were held In obeyance by ject quite seriously. We found that :,s left in one Salt Lake City will just give us the restrictions of mere customs. on he had based his figures a 72 deal, tell the state what The new era will demonstrate that each IL YOUR ORDER TODAY for square second ft. of water we in this basin, we may the greatest achievements will be have out flow until September acres steady more Mr. with people and more accomplished, not by man, not by get help, him, 15th. In talking we rhust not woman; but by the harmonious coHowever, were told we that capital. 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