| Show can ufah s irrigable land be increased by A million acres I 1 H professor Prof of mathematics utah agricultural college approximately acre feet water are benr ben diverted from the gwun of 0 utah for irrigation purd auf every year acre feet ol 01 water is I 1 waited every deiv it e consider actual water nel 7 the landd landa to which this water Is I 1 ning loc 6 avs reasoning ll 11 perfectly simple consider that utah hi has only hn hen we acrel of irrigated land thud to hah the above mentioned feet of water are being applied known fact well it 11 li 14 a it experiment station of the he the tile N y th tat college that 2 acre t of or water are amply imply sufficient for artal needs ot of the th crops upon an are 4 average land provided that lift e water I 1 Is properly applied 14 alil figures a out that SO feet 0 of f water should be for our acres ot land leaving a balance of acre foet going to waits DI I 1 if abis could be utilized util lied to its it full it would furnish water for acres of at land or three timer time a much as a are now DOW irrigating an lan impossible dream would be a e reply of the average irrigator irrl sator to icat tie lo 10 boroo an statement but it dp d ehe ue never thele it ie is also tnie true thai that the average canal company wen wort ai stricter strict ed to two acre feet of water r each acre of land covered by it ea anal iasi the land lands would suffer for ad ant of water and slid the crops would ib liner ither and beriah aa the average irrigator la is not wast ig Z water ae As tar far its he can help it it a 9 limply simply takes the n nater star that Is hl hh t ad under exist tn condition conditions applies 1011 to the beet beat of dt his ability he ceta gets and the tile fact that he ue user averal time times mine water than 1 I ally eany la Is frequently no do fault th his od the lu fact remain however that aj wo aero otere feet of water ater per acre tire when properly applied hs been proven time and tim gaan aln ty by the experiment station ot of be e utah agricultural college Col lepe the ids big question ho however weier Is I 1 uin can this two tn o feet of nater he botn mist economically CONO and 1 too aled 14 the inner to thia this quest question lon si at a besent la Is probably NO to recon rl tract tho the average Irrig Irr leatI atil n system irom om the point of indale to the point t application of the water and the leg urther preparation of the land a am nt bit there shall be no waste in aepli M I 1 tion would be so expensive that nt he ie cash value of the a feet of at water ived eyed would ton far abort short ot of ter ng S the expense incurred mil I 1 say bar that at present the answer alk the big question Is it probably pro hohly no tin of it ut utah must have more irrigated fixated If ML isias ad and it must obtain water to negate then them with we havi bay renche des to e practical limit of at our water 0 if and find the water to Irr irrigate irate these 24 ow fields must be obtained in a lit eat tat measure by decreasing the mount diw belay being used on our proa at it irrigated area prom from 30 to 40 per cent at ot at the alil iler ider taken from the streams of utah met lost by tho the canal companies bero ato ore it t ts is deliverer to the land to ilch illch it li Is to be applied show tub net canal company how bow it can nedy emedy this condition and fell sell the iter thus saved tor for enough to pa ir this increased expense and it will tat 1 0 1 so without any or legal dessure a being brought to hear aa ali ila 09 ff as s the abing saving of a certain amount f water Is a lotin loring tha dacial pro ato oett lon no canal company Is coln d a break its neck to da A this sav sa N ir lb show he the average Irrl pator how he a prepare his land and anti apply his atlon water so that 2 feet will ot thin him the nae same crop that 4 feet fee 14 I 1 before end and he will lady gladly in tin au milled you how him at the same all me where he la is to come nut jut head on the proposition financially te waste waits of material Is not waste in 0 16 generally accepted order of th ulna na n a val it I 1 possible to prevent it conly loni t A financial sa sacrifice clince 0 of the tailings tal lIngs and ehlig 1 piles at in many by pur r large mines contain hun alren f thousands of dollars of mineral at has been wasted in thu 06 pro preces cesio f knilling handling An illing the oree ores yet we are nox not of adiah kling up our buds hands in horror at this its no odous waste the tte reason Is thai that can be prevented or recovered only to t A 1 fIn uncial Audal loss and I 1 Is therefore 00 t pres present eeik not regarded as being a 10 uta the of 0 mines Is er dilly struggling with the W maleat af of how to emo economically ess ores go that this waste shall SWI abot a MIAl saurs lost t 00 it Is with the bigger sa 1 f ot economically handling our ir 1 ballu water and add reducing re ducin our out est eat apparently eppa really enormous enon nona waste 42 water to 4 a minimum 0 71 1 apartment mene ot at irr irrigation 91 tied and its kan at the utah U ah agricultural w la dally daily struggling gEng with this rater yr problem along with other amu they ther hope dion to be astle to low tit lat at it ts economically possible 1 40 the wt rate ida craft of at water to bench ittai la utah la in such to reduce to a the la at ma ts losses 1 of war water through eunice roa off and deep parco percolation lAMn the its newly created F aa experiment station at it the utah agricultural 1 cultural collego college bu has here a fertile field for anu on one which A hith la 13 pressing 1 so tuto ai As the demand for water witter increases Inc rouel tile value of 0 tho the existent exi ext stint sting irrigation star nater 1 a felox to tise it Is j tits ui duty of be the stas though its engineering experiment station tp to sea to it that averl menn means bof f ec economically no preventing waste of frn irro gatlon witter in 1 thought thou glit out and nl then thoroughly tried bouc with a liberal support from the Lecla lature and nd a continuation of tile tn present effort efforts of the college it li Is no idle dream to eay say that in the near future wo we hall shall iee see 4 acre kc feet ot of nater itter the wort worl that 8 acre feet are doln doing today and nd the acre feet at 0 irritation irrigation water thui thus caus caussie sig another acrea acres I 1 I 1 utah oil soll to blossom a as the rose |
