Show I J ALKALINE DEPOSITS Scheme On Oma 01 to Rel Rose ove Them Tem by Moan Mon n nOt Of Ot Drainage C It H I Elliott Elliot of oC Washington D fl C and ad Walter Waiter W V McLaughlin of ot Logan lust returned from front the south Bouth wh re they timey I have hO be been n Investigating conditions looking to tho the of lands landa now rendered ron orell useless through deposits of Alkali Mr Elliott Elot Is la a government expert while Mr McLaughlin Is Irrigation engi engineer neer at nt the Utah Uta experiment station and assistant In III the Irrigation Investigations department Doth gentlemen state talo that the tit people at the places visited are elastic at the this prospect of an nn efficient drainage system At t a I meeting ibid held at tho the thoI tabernacle In Kl it Bt plans were an nn announced announced for Cor time the enlarging of the tho plant at that thai town At huntington Emery coun county COUl ty the tho residents nt In mass man meeting bled hied mini and nn the tho th county commissioners of or tIdally favored d raising funds for tor the this pur no no of ot conducting experiments In drain draining ing ni The Tt Th damage done dono bv by bl excess of water ater to property In Emery Emer county and nM at It St Rt Is appalling says Mr un Unit halt of or the th country countr surrounding Huntington Is 18 unfit for tor use uie because of al nl alkaline kaline kalne deposits depola and Ind excess es moisture The he cause causo of oC both evils Is IB carelessness on tho the part lr of ot irrigators on land lan higher up An As soon noon M as I tho the water Is allowed to overflow Its Ia proper bounds It spreads spread and andas andas as ns It cannot penetrate th the so l iOu l or nto fib Quickly In such mean It leaven leaveA earth soaked to ii a n depth of of sis Inches while the surface Is in entered covered with alkali ly By Hushing u oft of this deposit and ami ani Installing drainage canals to dispose of ot I tho the tho the land IlInd could In III tints be bo re se reclaimed claimed |