| Show LAND OWNERS FAVOR IRRIGATION Twelve Hundred Petton Petition te the Gove Govern merit ment to Puh Push te the Poj ct ON STRAWBERRY RIVER SITE WORK ON ENTERPRISE MAY BE INAUGURATED SOON Twelve hundred land owners under the proposed Strawberry river ton tion project have signed a petton petition ak akIng ask asking Ing te the government to go ahead wih with the Investigations and development of the scheme scheme The petition was received yesterday by George L wenden of the United States matlon department of Uth Utah who ha has been actively engaged In making the preliminary examinations and the pet peti petition tion wi will be sent to the department of the Interior for consideration The land bind themselves In the petton petition to pay as high a 40 per acre for 22 feet ot of water If the government finds the project feasible under the existing con conditions The land owner owners under this irrigation project have hae taken more active Inter Interest est cst in ill the mater matter tha than the people under an ally other scheme The or ot of the land own owners ers ens is the government required in the ton law before it would go goal goon al on with the construction work and Mr said yesterday that In alt probability the department would take up UI active work on the project within the course or of a month The organization of the water users under the greater grenter Utah project includIng including Ing the Bear river and fh river has slowly and nothing definite has been done The human complications the gov government meets in reclaimIng the part partly partly ly irrigated lands are Immense 11 Mr said yesterday For exam example pIe the government cannot ignore the thee e existing canals and water systems that have been In use for years I It cannot take the water right rights away from the lands that have hae been set ted tIed upon and irrigated for years Th There re are arc hundreds and even thousands of land owners under the proposed irrigation river systems and before the government can deal deul wih with them the they must be organized I The reclamation work that can cun be In Utah is geat great and if the government finds the project now under consideration possible and the land owners organize themselves into an association the work wil will be soon under way ivay On the government lands the reclamation department Pan un go ahead wih with its work and supply al all the land wih with water I It can then i vitt the citizens to come and homested homestead I time the country without meeting the dif did where the land Is part partly settled I and under irrigation The projects that are before the department of the Interior for consid wi will add hundreds ot thousands of acres to land already under ton tion and it means untold wealth to the state of Utah If the land owners wi will go ahead wih with their part art of the work I |
