Show THE IRRIGATORS ORGANIZE We are afraid that It tnust be said that the Irrlgaora of Utah did not start well yesterday with their organization They decided to limit their membership member-ship to those who arc actually engaged en-gaged In using water to Irrigate lands for the raising of crops They specifically specifi-cally exclude power companies or enterprises en-terprises mining companies or those who use water in mining or milling work and In fact all the great manufacturing manu-facturing and productive enterprises or the State save only the one Interest That they had a right to do this Is of course conceded but the act of exclusion ex-clusion may be construed to be evidence evi-dence of a deslro to control all the waters of the State for the one Interest Inter-est and purpose and whatever manifestation mani-festation of such desire Is put forth will of course arouse strong and strenuous stren-uous antogoiisns The waters of the State should be used of course to tfie very best advantage of the irrl gators but not exclusively In that interest In-terest and the appearance of any desire de-sire to arrogate to one Interest exclusive ex-clusive rights In the waters Is sure to be resisted Other rights are vested as well as Irrigation rights and It Is not for the public welfare that all should hinge upon the one purpose The water Is here for the use of all for the development of the State In all proper Industrial and useful lines We note that President Evans of the convention and Stale Engineer Dor emus both disapproved of the narrow basis on which the organization was founded and hope that the broader view will prevail before any conflict arises between the Irrigators nnd the other claimants Wo trust also that the Committee of Sixtyone appointed to draft a bill for the action of the Legislature Leg-islature 1 may proceed In a better spirit and that the bill they may prepare will not seek to advance exclusive Interests Inter-ests or control of any kind That Is something that a growing State like Utah cannot possibly afford It would give us a setback that would damage us for years But the fact of the organization is good the basis of it can be enlarged I will be a useful association The question of Irrigation Is i the question of tho hour and Is fast assuming the highest National Importance The Irrigation Ir-rigation bill is coming forward In the House having passed the Senate The dispatches yesterday noted a conference confer-ence between members of the House having the bill In charge nna the President In which whatever differences differ-ences of opinion that had existed wero smoothed over We owe the prominence promi-nence of this measure to the action of the President where In his message he so strongly urged upon Congress the necessity of doing some helpful work for irrigation on n broader and moro extensive scale than had ever before been attempted WIh this bill for a beginning we can all see what tremendous tre-mendous advances can be made I is hoped that the Utah organization of I Irrigators can add material facts and I practical conclusions to the general store of irrigation knowledge and useful use-ful help In getting the work rightly started So that we hope for speedy good work in this line and for eventual event-ual good work on all lines from this organization of practical Irrigators |