Show WASTE LANDS The reclamation of waste lands fs a ork to be commended It should receIve re-ceIve encouragement There are numberless num-berless acres In thIs Statelarge areas In this codnty which are now considered consid-ered worthless either through lack of water for Irrigation or from excess of mineral substances therein that are death to vegetation It appears that analysis of some of this soIl over Jordan shows it Is capable of cultha tlon and that alfalfa can be raised upon up-on It has been demonstrates bJ experiment experi-ment so it is said All that may be true and if so It will doubtless stimulate the owners or claImants of those tracts to renewed exertions Ye hope they will prove successful But we know that some of that flame land was tested bJ early settlers set-tlers time and again and that though crops of some kind could be raIsed the first and second years the rising of alkaline al-kaline matter to the surface increased by application of water caused barrenness bar-renness to prevail and blasted the hopes of the agriculturIst An analysis of top soIl will not reveal re-veal the poIsons fn the subsoIl The success of a year or two wIll not ensure success in after years Therefore ft wIll be as well for people invited to take stock fn companies organized to obtain subscrIptions for shares to inquire In-quire into the merits of the soil before investing too largely When It is stated 1 by the promoters of the scheme that The canal companies to the south saw fit years ago to run theIr draInage I water on the property of the North Point people etc such a mIsrepresen tatlon of the facts fn the remarkable Water case that stirred Salt Lake county coun-ty for two or three years causes hesitation hesI-tation as to the correctness of present claims and the stability of present t speculations It is true that a decision of the Supreme r Su-preme court favored the North Point pe pleand that it has brIghtened their prospects considerably But the wrong thereby inflicted upon the canal com panles and people fn the southwest Is not forgotten and the end Is not yet The expense and trouble entailed upon those people were a great shock to the great majorIty of the residents of this and adjoIning counties and the decision de-cision rendered was so remarkable as to give rise to expressions that we wlll not now repeat The spirit in which the suit was planted the manner fn which it was pushed to an issue the errors that were permitted to prevail and the injustice in-justice that was done to the defendants defend-ants in the suit arise now In the public mind and do not aId in creating confidence con-fidence In the present movement to raIse funds for the reclamation of the doubtful soil which It is now proposed to subject to further experiment |