Salt Lake Herald | 1898-09-07 | Page 6 | Too Much Water

TOO MC WATER Uint Oout Has Not Been A fced By Drout Vernal Sept 4People are surprised who coming from the drougthstrcken section of the state to the west and traveling through the valley note the general thriftiness of everything and the copious streams of water flowing 0 in the innumerable ditches which forms thh grat srstEm of irrigatIon which has transformed a once barren waste into a land of plenty and prosperity Sawmill men report the season quite backward for their business in the mountains owIng to continued rains and building throughout the yale is rearded seriously in consequence of the scarcity of lumber Men whose experience expe-rience is founded upon years of observation obser-vation predict plenty of water for another an-other season Heavy rains throughout the valley the past week have delayed harvesting and threshing for the time being