Show SLOAN SEEKS AID Of UTAH i WATER USERS Appeals to Them to Have Havethe Havethe the Irrigation Ditches Screened AIM OF SPORTSMAN IS ISTO ISTO TO PROTECT THE TROUT Fish Escape From Unguarded ed Stream and Die on the Ground c J y J. SLOAN I I By W. W Little fish In inthe the brook Papa catches them with a hook Mamma fri fries them in a pan rr Baby oats them like a a. man This Thie old and well known poem should be changed in Utah to conform with conditions con con- that exist 1 and have ve existed for years It should run something like this i Big Biff and little fishes dead on the farm tann No screens they might do harm Farmen happy as can be bc To h h- h with I. I Walton At t the po possible ible expense expense of ot making an enemy ot of water users in Utah the tho writer hes wishes to say ay something something- concerning concerning concern concern- ing a condition that exists in Utah Uta and andone andone andone one that thousands of devotees a of J the therod therod therod rod and reel well know knon It is something something some some- thing as to wh why i the millions of trout fry irv planted by br the state every year do doc donot donot c not t produce the results that might reasonably reasonably rea bo expected First however let me say Bay that without without with with- out the irrigation system of Utah the first system of its kind hind by bv the An Anglo Anglo- lo Saxon race rare in the United States Utah Utah- would still be the desert like the pioneers pio pio- nc found it The writer is willing to pay all 1 rf respect duo to the men who have havo turned the waters from the streams or pumped them from the tho lakes akes to make male the ozie once desert a a. garden spot he is willing to admit the prior ri right ht of the water water users users to practically every stream in in the th state not alone on on the ground that they the used the water first but that they have spent much money in the I building t of canals canal dams ams and ditches Admitting all of this thiEl however is ill I there any reason why man many of of the t I water users take the attitude they do regarding something that directly and indirectly puts pub thousands of dollars in circulation every every year and from which they either cither d directly or indirectly derive some of ot the benefits f fIs Is Th there thero any reason why man manof of them take tb the position expressed or implied To liTo h h- h with fishing in Utah wo we are going goin to get et our water ater and we wont won't put a sere screen en in our ourI I ditch Time and a again arain ain bill bills have been presented pro pre I to the Utah lC legislature providing pro for the screening of irrigation ditches at some tome point near where water is taken out of streams trems known knO to have ha game fish Every time such bills biBs have been killed by bv the vote of members who wore either directly interested in irrigation or influenced influence b by such interests More rore than once the tho writer has heard members mem memo hers bers of the Utah lawmaking body express ex ox- press themselves We own the water and we wo will do with it as ae we please Why Surely it is a short sighted and selfish self Belf- ish policy The writer has come to think that in many cases the attitude of the water user is one of prejudice or misunderstanding misunderstanding mis mis- understanding of the real situation that he lie is over overly jealous of the tho fish fisherman's fishermans orman's erman's rights in his short sightedness The rhe fisherman has some ri rights he pays for the privilege e of spending a aday aday aday day or two or a week or two on the streams in pursuit of his favorite sport Not only does he pay his li license ti Ii- cense cenac foe fee to the state but incidentally he be spends many dollars dollars in the purchase purchase pur pur- chase of ot food railroad fares tares for teams and accommodations the greater creator part of which remains remains' in Utah Not a littie little lit lit- tle tie of this goes roes into the pockets of tho the very men mon who dont don't care whether there is any fishing in Utah or not For the last ten years fish and aud game commissioners of Utah have bave informed the writer that more fish fiah are lost bat on the farms of Ut Utah h er 6 every year rear th than D caught At t the tho request of ot a friend the writ writer r visited some alfalfa fields fields inthe iu in the south part of Cache Cacho county some sometime sometime sometime time a ago o. o On those fiel fields s. s which had been irrigated a few fow days before from the waters of ot the tho Paradise creeks an antho and tho the Blacksmith stream he saw BaW not hundreds hun hun- but thousands of trout from an aninch inch l long n to as high hish us ns a foot and a u half long lying dead in tho the sun This co condition has bas been c n many ninny times in indifferent indifferent indifferent different parts part of the state within thin thelast the tho last hut few fow years t this year Clr included rho The state plants millions of trout fry every overy year rear The Tho number has greatly in increased increased in in- creased creaKed under the administration of Fred W. W Chambers present prescot fish and mc commissioner But why plant fish Ish only to have ha them die lic by the tho I I tens of thousands on tho farms of the state because the water Risers users will not put in in screens r. r Water User and this i is 18 ju iu in the most friendly spirit Dont Don't Don't Dont Y you t think that it i is about time that you realized realized real real- that someone besides yourself has hasa a ri right bt in the tho state Do you stop to think that of all the taxes paid in inthe inthe the tho state stated nearly third one are arc paid by the tho people of Salt Satt Lake county count And nd that from this county more mon money y 1 is il distributed among you every yc year r than from anY other ten counties in inthe inthe inthe the state That from this count county go o every summer thousands of devotees of the rod and reel who feel that thc they should bould have some little chance for tor the money that the they arc are paying to support t the e state N Now w. w truly Mr fr Water User dont don't you vou think that it is about time that we we get et together anti and work wok for the bc best t interest of the state 1 wHich ich is hi your our inter interest t also f You will m find the tIle fisherman fish lish erman ennan a pretty prett good fellow fellow t at Jea least t the majority of them He Ife wants want to help you and he lie wants ants vou von to tn meet him on the wa way to Help Utah game Try it |