Show RAPID STRIDES Of IRRIGATION TION The rho stream of applications for rights to o tho waters of mountain in streams to bo be used for irrigation projects continue to pour Dour into tho the office of tho the state engi en i. i neer acer In the past pat month dozens of applications ap applications ap- ap accompanied with the tho infer infer- nation matron that lar large e canals would be bo built t to o carr carry tho the water to arid id lands lauds have havo been heen icon filed tiled and it is estimated that neary near near- lr IT y n a a half million acres will have o been within the tho boundaries of irrigation tion ion possibilities before beloro the summer is ia is over o Today Oscar Johnson of ot Theadore Thc Wasatch county Utah asked for ri right hl to o appropriate the the water of Strawberry creek a tributary of the river rivern r rin in in n the Uintah reservation country C. C W. W Thompson of lEcher City W Wasatch I count county has also asked for tho the right to tho the water of a small spring sprint in that lo 10 lo- lo Most of cf tho the irrigation projects are being be- be jig ing carried earned on in tho the eastern part of the state on tho the lands thrown open by the tho opening of tho the Indian lands of the reservation reservation res res- several years rears a ago o. o At the time timo of tho the land drawing many holders of lucky tickets fail failed d to U homestead on their tracts because because- of tho the seeming of ot securing adequate wa wa- tea tea- er for or the raising of crops But Bat with the ho characteristic habit of or surmounting impossibilities the American pioneer has found a way out of the trouble and by means of engineering feats a astonishing t in n their immensity have placed almost the entire region under the magic c influence ence oneo of irrigation |