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Show A M'l.'lil.srlllV Til TIII. IIIUKll-TI0 IIIUKll-TI0 t HMlltl.lS. Tliu following communication la commended to the consideration of the luiiortaiit lajdy uovr engaged tn thla city In the good work of dcvlalng tlauaforullllilnglhe water (rovlded by nature for the cultivation of Ihe oil: Jililor frrr( .Vf "Willie at Ophlr, Tooele ennoty, aome fow ilaya ago, I noticed aa 1 enlcied the canyon and fotlowe.1 It up to the town of Ophlr and to the concentrating worka Ihat Ihe Ophlr creek carried quite a large volume of water, enough, to ueo our farming parlance, to make four or Use good Irrigating etreams, and this too at lie low nl ebb. "On my return Irlp, however, I was In-formed In-formed liyaomo of the old real l-nte with wtiom 1 waa traveling that In place of being utilised to reclaim some of the beautiful aud apparently fartllo land that pr.-ada out t-utoro It throughout the whole length of Iluali i allay, It alnka Intu tlie groun I soon after leaving the canyon and la lout, "In this connection the thought oo-ourrod, oo-ourrod, wool I It no) be a great service to tlio wholo of our Inter-uiouiitalu aud arid country If the Congreaa now In aeailon oould devlee eoma meias, or reeouimand eoiueaubalancH to be placed hi the bottom ofltio-o canyons, to present the water from lairing aud ierooUtliig away after It la atorel The canyons In a thou--iud s allot a are natutal leaenotra now, aifar as three alias are concerned bat Ills round that whore a wall of masonry la putlnotitliefodrth or low. r aldo, the water alnksand roolatce away, "What la trua hi Ituili valley and the canyon au I stream above relerred to la true to a greater or losa 'extent 111 hundreds hun-dreds of valleye, not only In Utah but lu Idaho, Montana, Colors to, Arlsoneand all of the other Irrigating aiidseuil-lirl-gating country. "Tha b)draullc, the mechanical and nthor onglneera, tho cliemlsu, the geol-of-1-.ts, the agrloultiiratlata an I otbera Qomprlaliig the preieut Irrigation Con. gri-as ren.ler li an emlmutly pruer boIy tu take up thla queallon aud prove aome nlfa.tual mo ma of storing a large part of tbe water that now ruus In waste. "They limy luetnorlallso Congress for monetary aid, but the giving of the ot pie n solution to the quoatlnn how to tlTeolually kceptho walir lu tbe natural roaeruilrels morolmpoiUnt than all, aa It will bensllt the i-oople at tiielr homes anl lu every iMilliy. anl will nut be tii,eet to tliu contlngeueyand deliyof em uougrtaslonal aotlou,an.I Isallngolher one of the moil Important if-sofrrtiH ol the whole qnestlon. llosldas, ifCongress sees that the Irrigation Congress has de-vl-ed atanable plan It will be more likely to appropmto money "If a full Bolutlou cannot be matlo by tlio present session, a ootnmltlee could be spi-olutod to cairy oil the woik, Usspir.i!lr, IUkiii IUhrihutov " "SipUnibsrlo.IbDl." |