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Show Watershed Protectiim Results WeU' Shown. In;: Region Close to Utah Gas Freight Rates Rob Utah Automobiles Of I . -- . $1,000, 000. Annually ; Lease Shows Public Has Two Reserved Areas On Strawberry. Slite Using 50 Million Gallons Yearly. With Price -- J Based Upon 2 Cents Too High Carrying Charge; Car Owners Must Work Out Own Relief. . i -- , . -- th' - 4, ' . . rS Taking tha spread between . 2-- - f. 10411 anuw 1. 019 at' find that there 14-S- t- - ,. , of Grating First Step. ; in Bring- mg ; Back. Country ' towa-Manli- tlv i BoardProtects - - Tha atstiia of tha land k Just thla It la atUl owned 'by tha government because th Strawberry Water users bavs not 'y at paid . h for tha project. ''Whether or not title to thiolandautomatically - AVataruaers when the bill is paid to a matter for the courts to dodda Just whore the rights of th atato of Utah, stand In it ownership of th etroamboda and water la another matter which the eourto will sometime decide, v Roto tills Difference. At the present time tha Water-ar- e leasing th land from the reclamation service. Tha water-use- rs and also have operation maintenance of the project, hut will not get title management and control until they pay at least 11 per cent of th Indebtedness, which will ba In a very few years Tha leas upon which the water- paasaa to' .. . It-e- lf. ST-1- 3, Status of land. , Regulation J 1' on 1-- SIS.) Tho county- commissioner of Sanpete county havo ap--' propria tad f 1100 to b jissd in th building of road up Mapla canyon, on t of tho state's scsnlo.. place . Tha amount waa' appropriated with tha understanding that tha Mapla canyon develop-- 1 mont commlttss would match It with cash and- labor dona-.tlt of th labor ; donation a full day, by on man will ha considered equal .to 11.13 and 'a day by a .man and toam $.00 , . . In..-cas- 30-1- 1, 33-3- T, Creation Tha offset of- - watorahod taction on floods. la shown by . experience which tha- la central Utah, paaaod S3 Bom through. "V ago, whoa tho watershed hadytra baan subjected aad' Ora floods ' war axtromaly frequent aad. rushing out of th eaa-; yoa above tho town and doing great not damage, only to th town but ala to th tortlls ftotdo . ; " located oa tb alluvial faa at tha mouth' of the canyon la- a tow ',' v ysara damage resulted, estimated as high as 1115,333, CondlUona so bad that aoma of tha more 5 paaalmlstle - people talked aariously ; of moving' away and abandoning . tho town, because thay boliovai that tt waa daatlasd to b torovar subject to destructive floods aad that prosperity cogld never exist r r T I V thar After tha creation of tha a. soft-- spot la tnolr heart Mantl National Forest in 1334; th for tho. sportsman of ' tb stats watershed was carefully protested particularly-- , tha followers of-tfrom overgrasbig, firao1 And' other1 sport of presidents, members of tba daatrqeUve ua As a rayult, at tba , tat land board hava incorporated present .time Mantl. canyon an iron hound olauaa In all leases Insularly fres from flood oa atato land to tho aftoet that aa water flow la avan, th town pro t ?' lasses bag th right to prohibit ' U Calling on tho land leased. . UUU le Bemmer RateaA rK' with other raaarvalioaa n small amount of tho wa" Along, Only mad by th land board la tha load- tor supply eomaa from th sumyiar ing of land for graalng or agricul- rain . Th water supply ia not tural purposes la ona which atata Ineroaaad td any extant by r th tha atata of Wyoming raaarvas tha . storms unlssa eovore.!, right aad primage of any parson snongh to call flood Flood wa-to flak in any streams tore often do heavy damage to !m-- r-' ara land pramlsa' and than proved of little ; , Urban fisherman . la tb atata value for Irrigation; ? v.---' .Sri havo long raaantad tha aetion of Summer rains causa takifarmer-rau Chars in and many floods- and- - eroalon on water-ha- d th ng- advantage of th law of trsa-paaa thay aossetlmaa bring to cl os many of tho moyt at- - heavy downpours during a vary mo. 10-1- 1, of National Forest, 1904, Girn Ara Chance to Recorar. Sanpete Opens. Dri ye to Have Canyon Park - Land In Qaesttoa. The land mantlonad above, pur ahgsad fro inth Uintah .Indians at dollar and a quarter an sore, with money advanead by th service without Interact to as follows. T. 3 g, Baca IS, It and R. 11 W Baca I B.,- - R. 3, 11. W Baca and 1, T. 4 8., R.i 11 W. Sees. I, T. 3, - B.. aqd 8 and 13. T.il R. 13 W, Baca-- 1. A, R. 13 W.. B5.S0S.S1 acrca ' TO ba paid in five (1) Par sera. annual ' instalments of. I14.31T.1S each, ono Installment paid rravloua to July.l, 1013. (I) Act April 4. 1010 (10 State, ' --."..min title and man-agame- Bata On Gasoline. I.. The freight rat on a gallon of gasoline from California to Utah la S 0411, almost five cento. . Tha freight rat on crude ol 1 from Mow Mexico la hut fraction over two canto, while crude oil from northern Colorado brought via Pueblo a round about tourney of more than a thousand miles ' with two railroad transfcEP is only 1.01 or laaa than two cant. . The raaaon for this simply I that tha Utah Oil and Refining'; company and Its alhad Interests want out and got a fair rat of crude ell, and ar now cashing in on the refusal of tha aiito owner to insist upon a fair rata on gaaolln. That tha publlo la not getting any benefit of th lower ell rataa la evident to those who keep In touch with th prices elsewhere. , GoaoUno Has Beady Market. Last year there war iUIMK gallons of oil sold In Utah. This year there will b still mors sold, for during th month of May all previous records of gaa salsa In Utah war broken. Mora than. five million and a half gallons of gaaoHno wore sold h Utah Is May . till, according to figures available In th office of the secretary of tat . 11-3- 3. Old th Utah public gat any'benefito from reduced 'rata' on crude .oil? Kona that waa noticed at th filling atatlons-PrtHlagea on Weight- Lues the price hinge upon tha coat of production in Salt Lain City? It doaa not,' it hlngea upon the coat to bring In a competing product at high freight rataa. ' Thu theaa IOOS automobU ownara who want cheaper gasoline should first ea that tha freight rata comas down,. . Hero arc aomc figure which will be of Interest. , "t ; Interest of tbs Indiana in said lande ara hara-b- y extinguished and tha tltto. and control thereof shall peas to tha cwnarf of tha lands Irrigated from said project whenever th management and opra4 tion of the Irrigation works shall under the term of the From the , act reclamation act creating Strawberry Project, April All right, Utah automobile , owners ar a .being bilked aut of a million dollaraa year an gasollno freight rata Utah Industries ara continually fighting far lower rataa an fhalr . aa ana la worrying much. about tha rata yarttoular products-bu- t V gasoline ths publlo para Why worry abaut tha public T , . Record abow that only a few chert year ago tha Iralght fat( W crude oil and gaaolins war more or laaa an a par. ; . Crude Oil Get Out Rut with a refining plant In Salt Lnk City, th rata an. crude . aU wia too high. By aome conadcntlona effort tkla rat cut1 than cut aoma more. and But tha rat an gasoline remained th nuns-- r . Thosa Intaraatad In Importing .crude all wanted tha rata on this lowered, but aa they war alao Intaraatad In aalling gnaoUna . thay carefully neglected to do anything for the rate on that pro-ne- t. . th h . . . - Rt-',Of- . s ss .. Station complained that thafr meadow abow v that have baan damaged, gate laft open Exparlment flood ara much more disastrous. and other damage caused by city (Continued on Fag Four.) angler f A CAMPAIGN FOR THE 60,000. - . that the auto owners of Utah would cava JiW a million dol ' 51,000.000 Gallon Made Bora, of state's office also show that there la made In the state of Utah almost 14,000,000 gallons of gasollno each and year. Benia of this la cold outside the state, mostly to Idaho Southwestern Wyoming. Out' of the 41,000,000 sold in Utah last year 11,009,000 was manufactured in the state and 11,000,000 gallon were shipped In.Auto owner and tax payers, what could public fund do with a million dollars a year For A Million. The highway department could build 35 mile of first data hard surface pavement, or tt could put In a 135 miles of good oiled gravel- ' Agurw in th secretary f - -- This lease reserves two sites on the reservoir for tha use of tht publlo and alao reserves mean of going and coming. Th' lease in part read as fellows: 1010.- - It The Two Bitea to understood that tha fol- ; 1. Every person who purchues a hunting and fish- ins license should become a member of a fish and game protective association and personally see that the association functioned. 2. The various associations should unite upon a com- lowing described tract beginning at a point 3340 feet south 14 degrees 33 minutes Ernst from the Northwest Quarter of Section Eighteen (111. Township Three - ( Eleven (11) West, South, Rang Uintah Special .Baa and Meridian, and running thence east 30 chains; south 40 chains; west 30 chains; north 40 chains: also th North Half of the Southeast Quarter , ... . mon program. 3. The associations and the state fish and game da ed road, jr partment should get together and meet the common foe. . ; The University of Utah campus could be replaced almost every 4. The associations and the department should insist , , year. (NUSEtt), Southeast Quarter r the board of park commissioners get busy or get out. that at reserved arena shad. water The Involved land in temporarily tha tha Strawberry th Map Southeast showing institutions Quarter (8EKBE14) Tha state could rebuild Its charitable almost certain Th and that fish gam shown ar reports department least . 5. The tha associations and approximately. should publlo Section by the Four Eight Township request (I), department every year. of tha watarusars attempted to keep the anglere from tha raaervoir an opening day but retreated whan that the water (4) South. Rang' Eleven (11) Tha atato prison could ho moved each year and atlll bavs money storage commission consider the rights of the tha anglers became numerous and angry. West Uintah Special Base and tort. recreationist in all future reclamation projects. Meredlan, total area 300 acres A couple of first clue soldier memorials could be built each more or less, have intentionally understood vided. that unil such ua la made 6. The associations and the department should attempt pons to mast th naada of tha and it ia specifically year. not been Included in thla lease, but public who visit tho Strawberry and agreed that such traoto shall f said traoto tho leasees of said Any-othe reclamation projects could bo bought and paid for In were apectfldally excepted there- Reservoir for recreation. Bald tracts havo proper means of Ingres and tracts will ba required to tone tho o reach definite agreements with the waterusers of the from for th purpose of having aro or will bo leafed by tha United agree ' to ba prescribed by th ami at their own expense if thay Strawberry, Echo and Hyrum projects regarding the rights three to four year. Cltie could hae pavements without having to ailck the abutting available such tracts as for ho- 8tata under suitable restrictions superintendent, over and across th desire to keep livestock from go- of the recreationist on these reservoirs. tel boat landing and dher pur- - and conditions for such purpose property owners for the bill. premises covered by thla lease, pro ing thereon. 7. The associations and the 'department should educate In fact thr ar so many thing which could b done In th state liut which would atop if cans holders to havo a ahara In the of Utah each year and there la no need In listing them. Reclamation Head Say Fishing Is State Problem; angler political and social bodies of the state on the conomic f I Utah. th Headed of waters bulk of decent sportsmen by the great Payrolls In No Danger. value of fish and game. ' K. ae storWilliam Wallace water to the exert effort would every Echo, Strawberry, Hyrum Lined Up for Pri-at- e Lower freight rate would not hurt a single payroll In Utah. the that their fellow fisherman stay- age commission permitted 8. The associations and the department should insist' to bo able would reclamamanufacturs Oil Th Utah and Refining company v. ed within the realm of decency promotion of two major Interests While State Agencies Sleep. and sell just aa much gasoline as It does now. In fact there would bo while on or eroaelng another's land. tion units and has not one looked that the attorney generals office take, whatever etepe are more gasollno need. Not a single man would lews hi Job un acupon flah and fisheries as a Mate necessary to legally protect the rights of the recreationist' N 8. resource, nor baa It ones consider- on these count of a rate cut. More money w ouid bo turned 'loose lor general Exhibit No. I shows ua virgin ed An interview with Eiwood Mead, Title to thla will go to tha water projects. what will be tho rsault to tho use. Th grocer, the clothier, tbs theatre owner and tha rest would lakea on state or publlo territory users whan cost proth of tba commissioner when these various of recreatlonlst 9. The associations and the department should see that reclamation, who get their proportion ok the money aaved by lower ratee on gaeollne. tend, streams flowing through pub- reservoirs ere no inbaan has Again ject with built paid. pubUe worth the Auto Owner. aim visited Is Th Utah last week effort, Mr. certainly cainp eitea and beauty terest char and again th pub-l- lic domain, advanced on long time every person who commits an act of vandalism upon proppots on the property of tha com- money Tou'oan save yourself some of this money which Is going into Reporter Dr. Mead, I would fares th problem of a privet mon without loans interest. Mr. Wal- erty along a stream or in a hunting area should be punished wealth In virgin territory making gasoline or running railroads. Ilka to discus tha righto of ang- flah pond built with th public the bands of those Interested ee ler recently bacema cognisant of to the full extent of the law. And the law should be amendto for th publlo treasury comerce and th I to waiting that interstate to It np you get busy lers In government reclamation money. th fact that he has unwittingly make It accessible to private ' No. 8. give you ae fair a rata on TOUR material as It gava reWork If you can spar th which time tha private betrayed th trust of SO.OOO per- ed to permit rescinding of license in these cases. at , on THEIR material. A lake th necssary ua exhibit companies 3 No. let fining cast line to sona wish who their Interests will control 10. take th and associations should The work and the department Dr. Mead I am not at all con- Hyrum unit which will be started will pay for its own hunt-l- occasionally for a finny beauty, necesamendment reclamation cerned with tha angling aids of In a relatively short time. Whan publlo law an this to be the if for too ara walls several but his years fta own fishing, its own recreareclamation. That la a matter for Cache Valley water uaera arttte tion at eo much per all because 1st. Buy sary to keep Utah reclamation projects from becoming conTho land Board. the states to taka up and aattla for their difficulties tha reclamation and tha public help of tho publlo cut site will a raaervoir purchase themaalvo I hava nothing to say Next w find th land board verted into private fish ponds. had sleeping alcknea on this subject for publication or of money which comes from th 11. The associations and the department should take While la relatively free from blame which Mooring Roundly. public till, will charge thla up to to tha confidentially. for time th to protect a portion of the thousands of Utah lakea loudest up th present among interSnoring steps tho water users but without Annie. we find the functions of this board la not at from Orphan est and whan the project paid sleeping agencies hit and miss development plan. a ' land tho all Commissioncreational, although Therewith la written another for without Intcraat the title to State Hoard of Park th hunting ground has been lost h According to an item In aa 12. The associations and the department should .take to a lot of fa- story of an orphan child, another thla reservoir will go to the water er who perked themselves on a board holds th key Lovelock, Fallon end Win- - to Nevada except poosibla to a tn recreation. real five commission ago development tala of years publlo will Utahs ownoutcast, disregarded uaera and ones more th public few friend of th new y stepg to purchase ten foot along the streams of etoucra hunters havs employed vored Ourselves. and havent done a thing yet exnow but destined to bo one of tho hava to go through tha toll gats. er Than, of course, there Is the state Utah and should see that such a right of way was reserved cept talk at an outing or two No. 4. Soma Californian has recognised fttate'a most popular offspring Utbrney Thomas rowel of As exhibit No. 4 consider the un- which other people havo arranged flah and gama department and tha on all future land transactions, state and national. a Tho right to hunt and fish without th valu of th traet from for tha purpose of taking paying private toll or asking pri- born unit Dear Crack on tha Pro- end promoted. Aa stated In an association which hava functionif poaatble, to proven! conver-do- sportsman's viewpoint, ha invest! vate 13. The associations and the department .should see three of these commis- ed well along their chnaen lines, vo, Utah Lake, and others which early issue, ex gated, interested soma friend and Th leave. f about 35,000 acres of and but which havo permitted this con- that the title to the reliction lands on Utah lake and other : .1 member officio are sioners in All brief la thla: situation coma time. will to time from Nevadans have who and tha land In Churchill county acted, The bodies of water are not While sixty thousand license will hava tha name atatua private would gtodty relinquish their du- dition to exist unchallenged. otto ri' private gam preserve, enjoyed duckshooting in tho marinpermitted to be confiscated, by riparold saying that The wheel that sat Idly by, a half dosan flah pond built by money borrow- ties If possible, but two accepted th ownership of San Francisco as and no doubt expected to con- holders two. Thee ian land holders. A legislative appropriation to settle the tha honor volunthrlly. state to have wheel loudest th on tho agencies permitted ed easy payments (no Interest) squeaks nen boa names have not been tinue to do so aa long as thay wishwith tho governor, inak up th that gets th grease'' holds true end location of the normal ed arc suddenly left on tho out- valuable recreational assets to fall from tho publlo till. earned. highwater mark of the various bodies and tho Into prlvato hand majority of tha commission and a good and the sportsmen No. 5. lookin' In" while tho alert bit Th principal aercaga of th pro- side of water at the time of statehood is the first step in this. no axeueo of tholr lark of havedepartment of tha pricalaas heritage of th hava the ua Into In no Exhibit th takes I dona peat la squeaking up will San and Franciscans hunt bag preserve posed private gam rest outdoors to becoma privately natural lake country of Utah, tha functioning. Whether or not Ran- but certainly should squeak with 14. The associations and the department, should urge th gam. . nramp land that waa recently Jonaa of Cedar City ballavaa tboir every squeaker from now on. controlled all whlla th or tha Acquarlua plateau dallcan Governor George II. Deni to call a conference of representarhased 'from tho Southern Pacific Thirty thousand Nevada du liars and th puble servants slept. public Uintaha serve the folks who batter he Beauor Dixie lak other region Our Congrmamen. tor abofat per acre. Th lease undoubtedly would havo boon Just tiful bodies of water, nestled as algn hla pay cheek, tho Union and Exhibit No. 1. Then, thtrt ia tho Utah congres- tives of the fish and game department, the associations, the laid os part of th land by Prsa- - as acceptable to th Southern Parailroad, by aittlng tight waitlake can nature nestle only 1 Aa u ar aa No. for In 1st land cific th exhibit take sional Lovelock tho delegation, which has per- board of park commissioners, the forest service, the biological payment dent F. C. Johnson of th to designate pubUe parka for another irrigation unit or refusing but Strawberry. Built upon land which ing 3un club waa cancelled by the 8. tho dollars of Californian la a quesion w can not anawar. mitted various traverstiaa on the dsm a tho survey, the water storage commissioners and 'the statd cut. slash, power project waa bought by money advanced whether or not Latayett rights and privileges of th P, when th sal waa mad. own- flna chanc for Nevada ownership from and dike, raise and lower at will, And land board and map out a campaign which will mean more ' bult vote tho hr ao till, but of raiead new Nevada money a figpreserve duekihootlng Balt publlo the Lak of Hanchetta against City that state Reports for th profit of those ures ho can serve tho was loaned by the govern- 'developed'' them. In ers plan erection of a tones II feet waa overlooked. II means Keep which power for our hills, more fish for our' streams, more public who game use private fund or on long who will intarast. can eervi tract Off sign to Nevada aportsnfan on ment without high around th duck hunting wilt connive to havo UncM Bam tercets batter than he remains to hunt and fish and less conflict with private Intermorawhich on boiltime places to to in in Start area In Lunsford Nevada repayment land of th groan elate peas cooking F. equal but their attorney. people pay tha bill while private interests the bean toriums hava la tha necessary, soon as aa conests. six water. still that of land and on solid block fact Than, b but th work ing aeon, Reno thay of dales that th get the prcflt. miles aquara because Cali- publlo ia soon to be faced with struction of tho fence has not startpark commission of ours has coma to tho boll, lower tba hast should take a 15. The associations and 'No. No.3 3. ua to al- thla that th Strawberry M a priborn dead from th neck up ever and simmer them. Pass actually ed. He also maintains that tha title fornia lovers of duckshooting war claim Exhibit brings vate and tha Papubllo fishing pond should, in cook more quickly at th simmer- page out of the irtfgators notebook- - If the irrigstionist has of th purchasers U clear and that Ih first to ahow tha Southern ex- may flah at ao much par. most any stroam, lined aa many tinea It was created and to tha people of th state, ing point aro mors tender and the reclamation service, so should the fish and game departtha acreage la all railroad property. cific tho color of 510,000 in of tham ara with private land tha Justice No. 3. begin' to use thalr cerebral kasp thalr fresh sweat flavor and ment and the Lovelock proteetanto against th change for Und that was Hum lands poatad carefully with the No either sportsmen use the forest service and biological units or ela gat out. Aa Exhibit No. 3 let ua taka th bright green color hotter than whan planned gam preservo ar report- mors than a lax tkiblilty for th Fishing sign tha No Fishing" no more boiled. than water Vaa reas contact Echo reservoir, now nearing comWater ed to have declared that part of railroad company. who organizations with the federal governto those Storage. survey only valuable ment. If the that th Next we find the Utah Water necessary fuse to pay their stipend to catch It will b wrll for th Nevada pletion. Th reclamation aarvle pertaining th land hrfs'narer been surveyed have their water storage comirrigationists Add not b drained. need he liquid and that Ineluded In the proposed sportsmen to profit by this deal and using public money, has purchased fish hatched, reared, planted and Storage eommlasinn. which license holders he represented so should 60,000 ar half the. th about whan mission, Mil all of of Its rav th functioned ecnitltutlonal which a little peas tate'a durk tho protected by publlo money. the land upon along preserve Is government land. llnea but which has totally and ab rooked. Young pass will simmer by a group chosen from the fish and game department, the Now T. Quito likely th till of th San hooting for themselves. If It I not reservoir will rest plus an addiExhibit No. T shows ua vandal- aolutely ignored th rights of the tender in about II minute 8eason City tional ten toe t from tha hlghwater Praaetaeo gentlemen to the traet already too ' late. Carson asaociations, tba atate land board and the park coramiaalom mark all around . th and gams - U with matted butter-o- r araam, reservoir. ism oammittad by a relatively few ifixtir thousand-fisb onamallahl and tho right to ua Now. v 6 ie . com-mlsst- on auto-mobil- es n, Nevada Duck Californians Grounds Nevadans Doze 1 . V right-of-wa- Lovs-be- ;! - A ae-o- n : ? duck-ihooti- un-I- sr . 51-3- Fa-cif- io reers-atlont- ot - ona-quart- er . t A 1 |