Show REPORT COMPILED ON COMPANIES STATE I I There are acres of land irrl Irrigated Irr gated by b 2179 miles mies of ot irrigation ca canals c nals nabs in Utah now no In use representing an outlay in cash of ot as shown In a I report on irrigation com corn companies comI compiled yesterday by H T r Haines state statistician The report Is IB the first one which has hns been made up In the history of at the state and con contained tamed a list of ot the companies report reporting reporting reporting ing taine capitalization cost of canals canals their length and cost of maintenance the number of acres o irrigated and other I I figures Mr Haines believes his report cov coy covers coves I ers era more than 75 per cent of ot the in incorporated Incorporate incorporated es mor Irrigation companies In the state corporate but does not Include many small smal companies operated by one or 01 more farmers In various neighborhoods Neither does it I include any an govern government government ment meat or state stat land reclamation enter enterprises enterprises prices I have had a good deal of trouble getting the report together said Mr Ir Haines yesterday owing to the te fact that many of the officers of companies have been bean slow in reporting In some soe six in inquiries inquiries inquiries cases I have sent as many as before getting the data asked for tor and there are still some companies which will wi report from time to time These will wi be added to the th report In tn Inthe inthe the annual compilation and made m de a part I of the state auditors report report In some cases this is caused by change In sec secretaries I votaries the one going out not nOt leaving figures for the incoming officer who has to make a guess Another difficulty culty culy Is that we were not able abbe to tell tel which were live lve and which were dead de companies Many of ot these I have writ written wrItten ten to have been out of ot for years ears without a record The corpora corporation corporation tion ton tax wilt will wi eliminate this In the fu future future future ture but hut just now we have no way of ot finding which companies are alive alve and doing business There Is no record of ot the cost of the canals which were constructed forty and fifty fity years ago either In most instances in those days the farmers got together and took toOk turns in digging the canals without records being kept of ot the estimated cost of the canals Then too In many cases dry dr creek beds gulches and other depressions have been used for canals and the cost therefore has been lessened The wide difference in the cost of ot canals is thus explained Loose Iose Lose business methods and carelessness prevail in keeping the rec records and accounts by many of ot the of officers officers of irrigation projects today for tor forit tori forit it i is found that the secretaries are arc un unable unable unable able to give but very little Information information tion ton concerning the companies they represent There is a bad showing from sonic sonio of the counties countes owing to the fact th jt officers of the companies there have failed to give me any information which could be bo used in the Ule report I believe heleve this will wi stir the people of those counties countes and others so that with within in another year I will wil be able to give practically a complete statement of the mileage and cost of canals in inthe the state and other information in this line lne which will wi be of ot Interest to people of this state and others The complied compiled table of canals and reservoirs is as a follows oz 0 OOt Q O 2 Zt Z 0 0 0 a Q 0 0 0 0 0 t a 0 Ot 0 o 3 e a l n a a I Cr cosm a t 1 IO e e a 3 a o l n a e a Counties r N i Q e r ia ian c 3 g 3 n 8 5 g 1 Q I fl w r Bever Beaver 4 1 1016 1 1 T 1 15 1 Box Elder Eider 10 2138 4 2 10 1 Cache 2 29 rl 1479 2101 1654 2 10 Carbon CarbonS S 6 5 57 1 Davis S 8 l 01 Emery 9 75 81 1826 21 O 4 S 50 GarfIeld 5 38 2575 1 30 2 Garfeld Grand 2 45 18 1800 Iron 7 1 7 50 1 25 2500 Juab S 8 to i 1 ios 79 Kane 3 2681 94 1716 61 15 1552 1 Millard 10 0 12 86 41 3 25 2500 Morgan 2 80 56 6 10 1063 Morgn Pluto Plute 3 1351 GS 61 t I Rich 8 66 Salt Lake 1 13 17 1177 I San Sal Juan Junn 1 1010 76 75 81 W Sanpete 2 23 33 1767 7 7 49 42 6 1707 I 1 20 0 20 2 Savior I 2 23 I 5 Summit 13 1991 53 38 1 00 n Tooele 2 5 U 20 1375 28 2800 i 1 15 m 1637 1091 1351 38 1 2000 Utah 24 5 31 18 1718 2 1 1100 2 28 2 7 3 00 Go Washington 20 29 00 1091 Wayne 2 2311 2394 2 1 49 Weber aye 21 1217 21 1 i Total JW I 3 37 30 I |