| Show italis the men of the irrigation con gress men of brains as well as geo in utah many ahinga to adain admin they have come here not solely 10 study social problems but to look at the improvements of our rich territory what a vast field for boiled roiled i n this presents in the love ly valley they have visited today to day what wonders have been wrought B th days of its bottle beut by the cormons mormons Mor mons the barren tracts of soil have been transformed to rich nna smiling fields orchards of luscious fruit adorn the valley where grew nought but brushes and instead of the lonesome howl of the prowling is now beard the lowing of herds and the merry cackling of the barn yard fowl the hit reams that once rushed ou to supply the wasting waters of fie utah lane are now detained ii thair course and put by man to a thousand different uses and here wo pause to say that water was the latort power that gave to this region ats prosperity the soil was found us rich as on the missouri bottoms the skies were as bright and alio aun as genial as in anny part of ane eastern still all ground was sterile and S 1111 mans reason i power led him to apply WAI tn the surface and by means of it utah valley like many ether valleys cf the redeemed ir ii ibn the art it called and b lib m aus rich harvests were raised such aa nr yeen today to day man found it possible to jivu inaho wilderness wilder nebs and the various arts of civilization began S irple afforded the mineral resources were opened and the wealth of our moun blending with the wealth of our valli havo conduced to mako of buiu one or me greatest regions and abt delightful abodes for man that ca be found on the face of our globe I has dono it this w 13 at the very beginning of and the delegates to tho irrigation congress Con oress have tho liht strings to fully understand greatness in riding through our valleys they begin at he beginning and reason with themselves what work ife has cosec to divert the streams from their natural channels when thoy gazo at burlong our long canala they must fully realize low many tired bands have lain docu at night on their rudo cots perchance percha uce to dream of comforts yet to cone but irrigation has brought its rich reward if abot to ba by pioneers to add to the comfort and of their posterity |
