Show care of our oar water waier rights there will be quite as much necessity in the near f future future of a water commission in the state as a land commission the great dams and reservoirs being projected on the larger streams for power purposes will need public supervision it will need to be ascertained whether the dams built are dangerous to the public and if so eo how the danger can be prevented As it now stands private parties can locate on a stream and put in a dam without any public supervision perhaps it will be solid and perhaps not if the parties putting it in are experienced in the work the chances are of course that they will put in a dam that cannot be washed ou out t if they are raw graduates from some gome college without any practice in civil engineering their work may be based entirely on theory and be unsafe A state engineer could attend to the building of the dam if that was the only consideration but the water rights also enter largely into the question A reservoir covering a number of square miles area such as will be the case casa in provo canyon if the plans now nov K prepared are carried out means considerable loss of water by evaporation of course that loss can be more than overcome by storage and be a benefit to the farmers if properly handled it is the object of the company working in provo canyon so we are informed to draw off the water of the when the river is at its minimum in order to increase the power facilities that would of course be a benefit to the farmers but bat there should be some public supervision of all such work and the farmers ought to urge that the next legislature pass such legislation ligi as will meet the requirements |