Show GREAT IRRIGATION TION PROJECT APPROVED BY LAND OWNERS J I 4 IW 5 r F 4 e eS S 5 I X 4 t 4 1 t i I S V 5 I i ANGUS ARGUS T WRIGHT Well known Ogden man who is chairman of committee named to prepare petition for special election At Great Lagoon Meeting Steps I IAre Are Taken to Ask for Special Election on Plan By B a greet great gre t majority the land owners of Davis Davia and aDd Welter Wear w counties yes yesterday s afternoon in a meeting at Lagoon decided in favor faTor of establish ing lug an irrigation district to consist of the most moat fertile lands in the two counties countie A committee was wu named to present a petition n to te the county count commissioners asking r for a special election to determine whether or not DOt such a district shall be established The meeting was wu the initial move in one ond on of o the most moM important projects if not the most important ever commenced in Utah This project baa has as u its object the construction and completion of gigantic irrigation works ora which will water the arid and semiarid lands for forty miles from the Hot Springs s near the northern part of Weber county to the Hot Springs prIng on the southern line of Davis county at a cost eaR of nearly four of o dollars From the expressions of ef sentiment from 1500 1100 land tend owners in the district affected who met at Lagoon yesterday to discuss s the que question it is practical practically ly certain that a great majority of the theland theland theland land owners favor the establishment e of this project and that they will wUl take advantage of ot the opportunity offered them and organise organize this thIa district The re result result sult suit Avill will be that as soon as water in insufficient Insufficient sufficient supply is placed on this land the valley between tween Salt Lake and Og 0 den will rival in fertility and production the famous fruit districts of the Grand river valley in Colorado and lid the Hood river valley in Oregon Prominent Men Attend At yesterdays meeting Governor William WlIIlam Spry John Henry Smith Prof Lewis A Merrill Major R W Young Col Willard Young You g of Salt Lake J O G M 1 Barnes of Angus Ang a T P Wright of ot Ogden Thomas L 1 Allen J JH JH JH H Booth of ot Bountiful and a large larse num number number ber her of others spoke in jn favor of ot the organization of ot the irrigation district under the Pope irrigation law l w At the conclusion of the talks a rising vote on the proposition was taken and a great greet majority of the audience pledged themselves to vote for the organization of ot the district The project contemplates the irrigation irrigation tion of from to acres of ot arid and semiarid lands in Salt Lake e and Weber counties at a cost cont of from to It is proposed to organize an irrigation district under the Pope law and to bond the district for forthe forthe forthe the necessary amount in bonds to purchase the canal system now being constructed by the Weber River Power Reservoir company Special trains brought land owners from the north and south yesterday to the Lagoon meeting to discuss the project project project From Ogden came to the meet meeting meetIng meeting ing fifty came oame from Riverdale fifty from Clinton fifty from Clearfield from Layton Oft from from Farmington from Centerville from Bountiful from Stockdale and from Salt Lake Be Before Before Before fore the meeting there were many not familiar with the proposed project who 6 were hie to oppose it tt but after T the meeting at which toe tile entire prop pros proposition was wu plainly put WON before them the sentiment favoring the plan was al ii almost almost most unanimous The Salt Lake Lab train tram carrying from froni Bait aIt take Lake Stockdale Bountiful and Centerville le reached readied La Lagoon Lagoon Lagoon goon at 2 yesterday ye ter ay afternoon halt half haltan an hour ahead of ot the Ogden train When the train reached Lagoon it ft was wu during a heavy rain storm The TIle ran rain however drowned not a bit of the ir It irrigation ardor of the farmers tarm and jad they u uran ran to cover and aAd talked Jt Just Justas as hard as though there wap w never a suggestion of rain in Utah Music Mc by Quartet While waiting for the Ogden oden traM train the from the south sooth gath gathered gathered ered in the Lagoon pavilion pavillion The Im Imperial Doria quartet of Salt Lake of Fred l C Graham Thomas Ashworth Victor and Willard Squires sang eang beautifully several very pretty songs During the meeting the irrigation arguments were occasionally relieved by this th quartet and its ita singing 8 Following the quartet John P M recited several choice bits of poetry Leo J Muir spoke briefly of the irrigation hit gation project saying that it was wu the tile greatest enterprise ever undertaken In hi Utah and that the possibility of ot such uch projects project made Utah future snows secure Then the Ogden train bearing tour four fourteen teen coaches reached Lagoon and near nar nearly ly a thousand from front the tile north marched to the pavilion headed by the band ban With the ar arrival arrival rival of the Ogden den train the meeting was formally opened Seats Seat on the plot plat from were occupied by J 1 H if Greet Grant ot eC Bountiful chairman of ot the meeting mun Governor William Spry United States Marshal James Jamee H Anderson Major R It RW BW W Young Youns Col Willard Young Prof L A Merrill John Henry Smith Thom Thomas as L Allen ADen of Salt Lake David Stoker James Jamea A Eldredge EI Irede of Bountiful J S CL a G GM M 1 Barnes Barnell Representative J 7 W Thorn Thora Thornley Tho Tholey ley icy of Kaysville C F 11 Angus T Wright of ot Ogden H J 1 field Elias Ellas Adams of Layton Antho Continued on Page 10 18 GREAT EAT IHRIG RATO 1101 PROJECT APPROVED BY Y LAND LA OWNERS Continued from Page 1 Christensen of Hooper and C S Shep Shepherd Shepherd Shepherd herd of ot Chicago J S G M Barnes Barncs in behalf of the thc commercial organizations in the district welcomed the audience to the meeting and introduced J H Grant of Bountiful Bountiful ful president pre ident of the Davis stake take and director of the Weber eber River Power A Reservoir company as chairman of the meeting Mr Barnes Barne said sard sa As a land owner of the proposed irrigation Irrl tion t and andas andas as ae director of ot the Weber B P Irrigation company h lich Itch we hope to secure our water for i 1 i 1 gation I am glad to welcome you OU hee You are here to take tak the initial step in what will be the greatest thing for Utah ever undertaken You are here to consider bringing water on to your arid lands land to enable you to increase ae the fertility of your lands to tl double douDle dou le lethe the wealth of the state and to bring into this district more and happier homes As the first business of ot the meeting T TL TL L Ii Allen moved d that the chair select elect a nominating committee to select elect a acom corn com committee jot of three to present to the county commissioners the petition asking ashing a for foran foran foran an election to determine whether or not an irrigation district should be created The motion prevailed and the chair selected John S White and Nephi L Palmer president and secretary of the Farmington Commercial club Charles R Mabey and Willard D Carr president and secretary of ot the Bountiful ful Commercial club John G M 1 Barnes and Henry H Blood president I and Secretary of the Com Corn Commercial mercial club I J S Stoker and H E ESmith ESmith ESmith Smith president and secretary of the Clearfield Commercial club A R H Hey Heywood Heywood wood and I L Reynolds president and secretary of the Weber eber club of Ogden and W M Bostaph and Horace S Foster president and secretary of the Ogden chamber of commerce as mem members hers bers of this nominating committee Governor Spry was then introduced to speak on The Building of a Great Greater er Utah This subject began the governor is 18 as great as the state i itself and the state is the greatest in inthe inthe inthe the union The other day da I said ld to a Portland man that when consideration is taken of the wonderful resources their varied qualities and their great wealth there is no room for doubt that Utah is as big as any other four states Not long ago I was in Carbon coun roun county county ty t looking at some pome coal lands land I was taken feet fet into the mountain an and l las was as shown a vin vein of coal oal sixteen sixt en feet fet deep leep and I nap told to III that th vein yein ex cx extended tended fd for miles mile The 1 v T visited own I ed cd 1280 acres of Just such land I Iwas Iwas was waa told that experts for the company had bad estimated that that comparatively lIttle tract of land contained 25 tons of coal And there are just such BUch deposits of ot coal throughout the state Ut hs Iron Deposits I need not remind you of the iron de do deposits posits in Utah I need not tell you ou of the mountains of silver and gold that fill the state I might give you just another illustration of our mineral de tie deposits posits in Utah I have in mind one company compan that is operating in the ham district that is 18 shipping so much muth ore that if the cars were hitched end to end would make a train five miles long each day da This company also is 1 paying to the railroad each month l in freight charges These The e are only one or two of ot the varied resources of your state that I mention that you may not think me extravagant when I make the statement that Utah is as big as ony on other four states in the union upton You can readily understand the ne necessity necessity of or providing a population to develop these resources We Ve need more people in Utah and more homes for the people I know of no better means meana of home building than of providing fer fee fertile tile tUe land for tor the home builders Utah I am sorry to say has been behind other states in home building We Ye have land landin in abundance but heretofore we have lacked facilities for getting water on onto onto onto to the land Jand The result Is that instead of attracting new people to Utah we weare weare weare are losing some of those we already have had The families are being sop sep separated ep and our young men m n and young women are going out of the state to find opportunities for their skill Idaho Wyoming and other western weE tern states are arc getting the cream of the rising genera generation generation generation tion of Utah This is 18 a condition I have always de deplored dePlored deplored I believe that the brain the brawn the muscle and the skill of there young people belong clong to the state of their birth Too I deplore this condition be because because because cause it breaks the family ties tiel I be believe behove hove lieve that the fathers and aDd mothers who raise rai e these the e families are ar entitled to have their sons eons and daughters near them in their declining years yea It is wrong wron for them to be practically childless in their old age The solution of this condition is more homes on more fertile ferUle toil soil oil Build More Homes Briefly my friends friend this meeting is for the purpose of presenting pre to you people of Davis and Weber counties the opportunity to build more mort homes and in inthe inthe Inthe the homebuilding to provide a place for fora a stronger and more morr loyal people Someone has said that the tillers of the soil soli are the rulers of the nation I Iw w wish ish to subscribe heartily to that senti sentiment sentiment sentiment ment The great citizens of this t ls republic lie lic 11 are those th who can build two homes where one has stood before bf for If there theft is any move which has hafl for its object the th of ot the state it Is the duty dut of ev every pry ry citizen to support that move There are gentlemen here today who have ha e agreed to spend their th ir money to bring the waters of the Weber r river down the mountainside and scatter it along niong your bench lines that you may mayuse mayuse mayuse use it II to make more fertile your our arid fields You are all an practical men and women and I need not remind you of the vast ad benefits benefit that will wilt accrue to you if you rou adopt such a plan I need not notten tell ten you of the great greet increase in valuation valuation valuation to your land of the vast VlUt Increase e ein in quantity and quality of the products of f the soil of the resultant decrease e in your taxation through the increased rev revenues revenues revenues of the state of the immense amount of money that will be spent pent among you in the construction of these irrigation works of the army of men mm that this construction con ruction will provide with Uh employment There T are a thousand and andone andone andone one reasons rt why this plan should be adopted These Th e gentlemen are here making a fair proposition to you They Th y are aie offer offering offering in ing to construct these great works far for your benefit Perhaps the that inspires In pires them is not merely m rely brotherly love I wf They are here more to make money by this plan and it is right and proper that they thc should make a profit But let me remind you that where they the make one you will make ten I have a high regard for men who will Wilt bring their capital into Utah for investment It is 18 isan Isan an indication that people have at last rome come to believe in Utah These are the people who are serving notice on the nation that Utah has at last Jast come into her own Old Stories St Forgotten When hen you go away from Utah you dont hear the old stories any more I People of other states tell YOI you they have just come to know your state they 1 speak of o Its resources of its wonderful opportunities they say they will III invest their money in Utah because they i know it will ill be a good safe fe and paying investment they feel that Utah people are a conservative people that its leg I I will pass no radical legislation that will interfere with their vested I rights I For the development of the arid arM lands of ot this state we need vast sums of money When hen the pioneers came caine to I Utah they irrigated their lands in a primitive though admirable method They The started their plow shares in the beds of creeks and led the water to the barren soiL Necessity of the moment made such action imperative But we have progressed since that time The method of the pioneers is no longer practical To make the most of our arid lands we must have a modern and complete irrigation system and to build such a system vast sums suma of money are needed On yesterday after atter coming through thOUgh Washington and Oregon and through the fertile fields of Idaho I came In among the fields of ot stubble of alfalfa and of sugar beets in the Cache valley and my m heart beart leaped with pride I felt to thank God that I lived in Utah I spoke to the people who were accompanying accompanying me of this feeling and anti found that each one shared hared it They felt that there was indeed no land fairer than Utah This is 18 the sentiment that per pervades pervades vades the people from one end cud of ot the state to the other We want to see the people build homes We Ye are now with states far in advance of Utah in this th respect I want to see Utah catch up and out outstrip outstrip outstrip strip those other states Governor Favors Plan With reference to the project which I you are now considering I wish to say that I am in favor of it heart and amI soul soulI I want to see you make it go I am for tor forthe forthe the building of homes the reclamation of ot the soil BOil and the conservation of the water 1 I hope you will go away from here with the earnest desire to make a success of ot this thie project and I hope that I Imay Imay Imay may come corne here again soon with the theother theother theother other gentlemen who are here today to congratulate you |