Show LAND USE PLAN SEEN AS GRAVE NEED FOR UTAH Dry Farm Failure Is Held to Be Major Problem Growing need of use land-use planning planning planning plan plan- ning in iii Utah was emphasized here Tuesday by J. J Howard Maughan Logan specialist in the land utilization utilization utilization tion division of the rese resettlement it t ad ad- ministration Four major p problems oble s were listed sted by Mr Maughan as so acute that it t has been necessary to c call ll into existence an emergency agency to todeal todeal todeal deal with them First among these problems he listed was the attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to homestead more than 1 If acres of land in Utah for dry farming between 1910 and 1920 Nearly all these farms have been abandoned but the financial loss oss and human suffering to the settlers are part of the result that measured d does es cannot be fully nor I there here seem to be any end to the ill effects of such unwise land usage he said These acres of desert land in in private ownership now constitute one of the states state's major land problems lems A second land ill mentioned by Mr Maughan was that of unwise land promotion through overextension overextension overextension tension of irrigation enterprises A third problem he said is that of stranded of-stranded farm communities res resulting re re- re- re s suIting from disappearance of of- agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural resources on which the communities formerly depended Scattered over the range areas of Utah are a surprising number of farm villages which lost their re resources resources resources re- re sources through shrinkage of the range forage disappearance of the irrigation supply or erosion of farmland farm farmland farmland land Mr Maughan said As a fourth problem he cited that many Utah farms are too small to provide a family with a living in income income income in- in come to meet ordinary farm expenses and mortgage debts Evidence of seri serious us difficulties on Utah farms is shown by the fact that Utah is next to the most delinquent delinquent delinquent de de- de- de of all states in payment of federal land bank loans Mr Maughan commented It is also a disturbing fact Utah has been among the highest relief states and much of the load has centered in small agricultural communities It was to meet this situation Mr Maughan explained that the resettlement resettlement resettlement re re- re- re settlement administration is functioning functioning functioning in Utah Activities of the administration include a study of land resources and use land-use problems problems problems lems a program program- of land purchase resettlement of rural families displaced by such purI purchases purchases pur pur- I chases and rural rehabilitation to assist farmers in obtaining economic economic economic eco eco- farm units |