Show THE WATER DISCUSSION Friday nights meeting at the Commercial Com-mercial club of irrigators andthose interested in-terested In Irrigation was a free conference con-ference on the most Important and material ma-terial subject now Ijcfore the public I U fruitful In Ideas and suggestive sugges-tive In material considerations The importance of the mater waa fully recognized by nil who took part and the need of concerted and ocrslstent action was rightly dwelt upon Mr Lamberts Idea that It Is the duty of all to make themselves Informed upon this subject is clearly the right one where the whole future of tho country is dependent de-pendent upon a full water supply as it Is here Mr F S Richards In emphasizing the absolute need oC concentrating effort ef-fort upon the Utah Lake reservoir improvement Im-provement and of a united and energetic ener-getic movement to bring about the desired de-sired result did l good service and his recital of the operations of the canal companies and of the losses the past year from drought brought forward a convincing Illustration of changes that arc to be desired But when he said that no radical changes In the Slate Irrigation laws arc necessary we ber lee he spoke without due thought for Mr Mead special Irrigation expert of the United States Department of Agriculture Agri-culture and Secretary Wilson are both on record as to the Imperative need of material changes I is also true that the Interior dcnartmcnt lays stress on the enactment of proper Irrigation laws by all the arid Stales as a material condition for the proper application of I the irrlcatl n law Professor Newell I In one of his talks here spoke of the i need of ohango In tho form of irrigation in this county by making It through cooperation of the farmers instead of through corporations Mr Dorcmus gave some interesting data and explained conditions hi this State as well as the theory and practice prac-tice of Irrigation In Utah lie said that the area under irrigation Is decreasing but pointed out that this area could be more than doubled by a proper and intelligent in-telligent use of all the water available I Col Holmess paper was of high merit mer-it It developed the financial side of the Utah Lake improvement proposition on safe lines and In doing this took but one phase of the question showing that even thus the enterprise promises nuch undoubted success that a practical business bus-iness man who might be imagined to have the whole subject under his control con-trol would have no hesitation In Undertaking Under-taking tho Improvement as a moneymaking money-making proposition He figured the cost of the improvement of Utah Lake at a million dollars the quantity of land that would be reclaimed at 70000 acres a payment of less than 150 per acre for ten years would meet the cost and the land now worth merely a nom Inal price would be worth easily from 100 t 150 per acre Applying like reasoning to the operations of the canal companies he showsthat the coat of tho added distribution system would be less than G per acre and the cost to all the land merely nominal for n perpetual per-petual water right ample In quantity and certain every season The show Ins Is practical and businesslike we beHave be-Have that no business man on examln Jng it thoroughly would fall to give it hIs Indorsement |