Show V RESERVOIRS IN THE An organized movement to have the federal government build d great grant reser reservoirs reservoirs I at the headwaters and along the course of the streams rising in the Rocky Mountains Is now no Y under und r way way in Kansas Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and other western states The enor enormous enormous moss waste of water in the winter and spring followed by b disastrous floods and subsequent sub have forced upon public attention the desirability and necessity nece of a comprehensive reser reservoir reservoir voir scheme under federal control A trin down the Arkansas Rio Grande Green Grand Platte and Mis Missouri noun rivers at this season shows the streams bank full the precious fluid worth almost its weight in gold if stored all an running to waste i baste and ful fulfilling fulfilling filling no good purpose because e seasonal precipitation supplies current demands for irrigation Later on the fields that border these the e same ame floods now will be beI b I parched the crops pauperized because individual enterprise is unequal to tile the requirements of ofa a storage system sy tem The le problem is as important to the eat east as to the states es of o the h mountains and western plains pIans pl ns The Phe reclamation of the lands that could be he made pro productive productive productive by reservoirs would provide an st empire m re of consumers besIde which the islands ds of the would be a petty province in commerce New N w millions could be given Iven comfortable homes and their industry could compete with the world in food rood supplies on te s that would make them masters ma of r the ie situa situation situation tion Manufactures would inevitably follow the tIle iron and coal oal deposits of the west t would find a market at their own doors every valley of the Rocky Mountains every acre of the vast plain in n their eastern slope would be peopled with tree free intelligent cultivators of the soil The accumulated p of the east could find profitable investment for millions on millions of dollars and nd the problem of the oat roat pities with their surplus population Jon would be solved With storage reservoirs at the head of each great river and distributing reservoirs along their beds there could be no failure of crops no uncertainty of revenues for the individual or the state Such expansion would w t uld ld be along the Uie lines of at freedom and d equality along the path the fathers of the republic trod when they saw dimly the possibilities possibilIties of the region that now comprises the middle states Utah Is yet in the Infancy of ot the de development development development that would follow if this state were to be made a part of df such sucha a reservoir system The valleys of the Green the th Grand the Colorado COl rado Bear river SEvier river In themselves th selves would furnish a pleasant abiding b di g place for fora a nation And no one of the great states to be benefited would reap a more m rc abundant harvest or be so well repaid for its share of the burden burd n involved in the execution of the th plan as s TJ Utah ah The subject cannot be discussed too often otten or urged upon the attention of congress toe forcibly It is one of the tha great questions to be solved by the na nation nation nation tion in the near future |