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Show FARMERS ifl favor Utah IrrigatJ Project. I ( System in Presenting pri osition All Thai i Required. j Will Miss This Year's Govern ( Estimates Unless Something fcl Dono at Onco. i That tho land-ownors of the vallr In favor of the proposed Governa rlgatlon project, nnd would readily I tltlon tho Government to proceed m tho work already so well started, if & thtro voro somo way of getting tha KC-ther on tho proposition, 13 shoTral j the interest awakened by Tho Trlto r showing that thero Is danger of fj project being- abandoned unless thlnp Is done at once Sinco this jj inp was made sovcrnl members cf a committee appointed to secure slcutsj to tho articles of tho Water Vstrf -j soclatlon have completed the canvas. tholr neighborhood, end sent their "J 0 of names to tho chairman of tht Lnnd commission, and tho State necr's ofllco has been almost bejlegeK farmers who aro anxious to lsrn tH can bo dono to help the good work nlS Encouraging but Not Siiffirtectf "While this display of lntereat u n ecu raging, It does not promise r sulu ri. J will lnsuro tho beginning of constrccM work on the Utah lake end of Ihitsfi gallon project this season, which co-jlj bo easily accomplished by tho syjtEKf! work which a fund to work with, it iw disposal of tho Stato commls'lon, grdBj make possible. The reason for i!swi that tho work now accomplished U ia I rltory and scattered; It Is not ttorKa. Tho signing up of two or three yAijm J communities In various parts of thept district does not count much toward stilt: ting tho work started Were It paflj g to hlro a force of good men to ui ? the canvass In a systematic way clu k Utah lake district, for example, th. tc J could be completed In a few wecks-jl ably In tlmo for tho cost of the ifiia; work on that end of the Irrigation prcjK to be included In tho estimate of ajd dlturcs which aro forwarded during l!r: to headquarters by tho Government d glneers in charge. With work onoseW turo of the great project actually tra It would be easy to organize the der of the dlslrlct. Ono member of the soliciting corJ tco for Salt Lake county callrtl at l! Stato Engineer's office with a hit I eighty signatures to the articles cf tl Water Users' association. Sverty cf I! names wero of owners of land unia a istlng canals, showing conclusively M it is by no means "ory" farmer il who want tho Irrigation project cart through. He said no could secure n-mcs In hl3 neighborhood, but thilltrjj qiiircd time; it was remarkable ho !Ai of the land-owners really undfritwl tj proposition. Every one to whom it Im presented It was heartily In favor e. after Jt had been explained lo hln, tj: an avcrago of two hours' tlmr ng. quired for each explanation, irus W an idea of why slow progress has t made In tho matter of securing and why It seems necessary for tlw 4 to make .soni provision for carryftS wcrk to a speedy conclusion :rt Would Increaso State Ecveauts.; "The Legislature could not poi make a more meritorious apFropruw than this." said a prominent officii P tcrday. "It would be like lnvestlri? sas in somo public institution which s require moro money to maintain. rigation project will in tho end aH -j liens to tho taxablo property of t&KJJ while tho amount necessary to . j under way is a mere p ttance. It u nrecognized n-recognized as a great thing for tie a-. under existing canals, as well 13 of bringing into intensified cuttm about two-thirds of a million acra rich arid lands. ,",' "Tho presort canal systems numbers,' at best, compared wlta )f)m to-date slnglo great system wwen be built by the Government. An. from providing an ample. JcrnOaae .! plv ot! wator whero now there is serious shortage, the modern built for all time, will cosl the during the ten years in which i paying for It, but llttlo moro thaa rr bo tho cost of malntenanco an'fj, meats for tho old systems durWjM samo tlmo. It would bo tho dISS".;,1 of a disaster for the State to bl curing this great project, and '!; folutoly no reason for further acuy. It is well known that tho ernmont ia ready to proceed w beneficent work." |