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Show I GES DEVELOPMENT Of LIDS Of WEST OTimercial Club Favors the jmjPIan Proposed at Irriga-Hp Irriga-Hp tion Conference. SOLUTION ADOPTED ilfcws ueson Made ky nM$. F. Jensen, President of 6 rar"zaon r ?fie board of governors of tho Com ijj.-. rcial club, at. its weekly uicef iiieuyos- aj, ivcnt on record as favoring the llopmont of the agricultural la rids 2 the west under one of tlio plans pro-7 pro-7 led at the recent irrigation confer-S confer-S in Denver. A resolution was in-J in-J Sliced by Presiclcul. W. F. Jensen, i? attended tho Denver meeting, and ? ped 1)3' the board of governors, tic-ring tic-ring tbc dub to bo in favor of the BtaJ government, constructing the frBKvoirs, dams, main canals and rail-facilities, rail-facilities, and the states to con-NKt con-NKt tho distributing systems, place oKaottlers on the lands in possession wLomes, implements and livestock "ugh long-tinio loans at a low rate j?ttnterost. JSjjHhico his return from Denver J'rosi-tjiMb J'rosi-tjiMb Jensen has been an cutlmsiautjc Hicate of this plan, which is similar -Hbfcose in effect in -Australia and -iBada. Presideut Jensen belieyca "dRfsuch a plan would solve tho high ..ft;of living by greatly increasing tne (faction of foodstuffs and equalizing H city with tho rural population. He eVes that the great fault with the U j'ent system for settling the agri-:4 agri-:4 ratal lands of tho west is that the Mfc est, hard-working settler is not in enough assistance a.ud is not pro-U pro-U sd. with anything more than a piece raw land, which in most, eaj.es he v5, fin capital to develop. tsm lie text of President .Tousen '? reposal repo-sal on, which was adopted by tho board, ifc m follows: "'"""hc Salt Lake Commercial club I' realizes that the Stato of i and other western states ;ss immense tracts of mulcted mulc-ted agricultural land, with suf-lt suf-lt water to irrigate same, further realizes that irrigation cts which have been corn-id, corn-id, or arc now under complc-have complc-have been thoso within reach rivato enterprise, and that in future large projects must bo cd on beyond tho reach of pri-onterprisc. pri-onterprisc. and which for that 5n should bo handled by tho ral and 6tate governments. A3 neral principle we believo that fcdornl government should con-',i con-',i reservoirs, dams, main canals railroad facilities, and that tho ss should construct tho dis-iting dis-iting s3'stems, place settlers on Imd and in possession of jb, implements and Hvestodk ugh long-time loans at a low of interest, e recognize that our b'est set-may set-may be honest, ambitious and -working men with limited is, and that by furnishing 1 sufficient capital to start on t, thc3r will bring our desert under cultivation, produce ill's ill-'s and do that in a few years h from lack of necessary "capi-t "capi-t might otherwise take "a litc-to litc-to accomplish, e further believe that tho sold so-ld public land estates can be ished the necessary means to Y on this work by receiving 1 the federal government land ts to tho extent of 11,000,000 acres or 5,000,000 acres each, the sale of which to furnish a revolving revolv-ing fund to be used exclusively for the purpose of financing Irrigation projects and. the settlement of same. |