Show OUR NEIGHBORS MESA A I 1 sn I hl to WilIer Ir this thiN Good Lanil Correspondence 0 Mesa Co Aria nc Dec 11 We W ar arc enjoying our beautiful winter weather with sunshine a and d flow trI Sri Orao Oranges are being picked And packed for market with lIh a good demand for tor thc fruit Plowing and aneS planting of wheat Is II still u hlll white th lit ollIe butt low l is run over the heidi The rt lIt nuns and ancl storms In the moun mountain tahiti tain haw have made this by t the v lii III crease or of the water ter for tor II nt e haL 1811 lisa hit been n II a hard year lear for tor till this 10 because or of drouth crops alid abd or ud we were Injured The necessity ot of storage Was as and nd Ih there re II i much rear reser talk sums ume advocating the tho building ot of the county others the raising ot of mone money to mk make reservoirs by loans tuan Ie cured b by mortgage morte un on the farms ur or land to be benefIted Both Plans plana would en n tall a great areat burden of debt on the district that would be such uch a 1 tax I as to top stop material growth entailing an al un nfl bearable burden ot of eapen expense Oil ott the urn ltd lied population Yet rt It I is a 11 region of resources But the people eople are Irl taxed as a rut rul to their full extent nt to keep up their present water supply Many think the government nt should hould undertake this reservoIr system and by appropriation set Ht aside to so aI cure cur the situ and construct tb the dam Till This in III our opinIOn I is Jut just u as legitimate a for appropriations to be made for tor river nyse and Dd harbor barber improvements one benefits our commerce while the uth uthen er en would deVIl develop our Internal wealth making for tor millions ot of people and ond wraith for tor the nation The icier reler of Waler to irrigate the he great Salt Bait River valley all y would be III under undertaking taking that ul hom homes for lor lora fora a great number or and that In Ina ina a climate that I is tor or health It is II estimated that for two million dollars dollar the T Tonto nto linsin could be made Into a or great la lake that would provide water for tor gallon for tor the greater part It not for all of this vast valley The taxes 1111 upon the th improvements thus thul made mad possible would soon oon amount to more than the expense ut of construction end and the In lug ot of the water woula increase the evaporatIon ard therefore add Idd to the tho humidity ot of th the atmosphere and induce a greater rainfall The storage turI or of hi water ter It Is ot of more A attention than the creating ot a forest t as it II would do the grealer noel good The forest In Incur Incur cur hardships oil the pioneers pioneer while the reservoirs Insure the de antI redemption from a bar barran rn ran desert to a fruitful field bid |