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Show "It It " ' Is Js Our Water Getting GettingAway Away From Us ? heart heartdy The Times Tunes Independent endorses the sentiments ex ex1)ressed exMessed y the following iollowmg edl1 edl1onal editS 1)ressed 1ressed in ) onal from . the Utah FarmerWater Farmer . Water the hfe lme of lrrlgat lrrlgated of Utah has been and ed areas wlll contmue to be the roam el elcmellt cmellt of agriculture . the bIg bIgtOpIC - topic -tOpIC of . discussion and the . football of politicians poI1tIcianS Andranchers what are we the farmers - ranchers doing domg about 11 if ' Someof Some Someshall that we weshall be hopmg -of of - uS may shall get our share of the waternonchalantly that IS runmng to waste year af after -ter ter - year and some of us are Just Justnonchalantly nonchalantly sitting slttmg by letting lettmg lettingwhat lettmgwhat - -what what - may happenWe happen happenWe awak awaken awaken We here in Utah must en and organize orgamze into mto a flghtmgsquad fighting flghtmg fightingthe tour mterests m mthe squad to prote the waters of the Colorado rIver rIverOther riverOther Other statescencerned states - concerned -cencerned cencerned with thIsrIVer this are domg It and so must mustv.e -rIVer rIVer - v.e ve . or we , may find fmd Utah still stIl1 stillhigh - . -high high hJgh and dry when the other otherstates otherstates under underwater underwater states are turning turnmg green water that m ro ght well mcrease mcreasethe "creasethe creasethe " the production and wealth ofUtah of ofUtah Utah agriculture agricultureIn In some Colorado river flver statesfarmers states _ ' to fight fightf.or fl ht ? - - n- n nrtTcram7'in - orgal1lzmg rtT-cram7'in rtT cram7'in cram7in - ( farmers : are tor f.or for . their rights rlgrts ! They have form formed I Ied ed associations a"soClah6ns asoClah6ns " each member membercontributIng membercontributing contributIng to influence congress con conmole gress and the publLc to dIrect dIrectmOle mole water to their thelT areas We WeUtahns WeUtahns Utahns must do the same We Wemust Wemust must show the public publliC and aM0011 aM0011climate can cangress that Utah has the land and andclimate gress climate to toarrant warrant \\arrant arrant \ projects thatw)11 that thatwater w)11 w11 ) mcrease our agricultural agriculturalwater water suppiv supp1v We must gather gatherfads gatherfacts fads that prove that our thIrsty thIrstyareas thirstyareas areas will wll1 provide incomes mcomes for formany formany many families and that the taxrevenue tax taxrevenue - -revenue revenue - industrial mdustnal trade and andpoer andpower po\\er po er \ \ plants will more than JUs JUst ] ustify t y the cost of irrigation IrngatIon proJ proJccts pro ] ects ccts ectsOne cctsOne One state that Utah Arizona Anzona Anzonaand Arizonaand and \ western estern Colorado farmers farmersmust farmersmust must guard against agamst ] is S CalLfor CalLforma California ma California has tremendouspolitical tremendous tremendouspolItical polItical power and wealth to tocarryon tocarry carryon on a big fight for the wa water water ter of the Colorado n\er n er rI\.er rI.er rI .er \ . Unless Unlesse Unless\\e Unless e our water waterma waterma\ waterma watermarun \\e e \ \ do something somethmg now uncontrolled to toa toa ma ) \ run on by a state that is already getting gettmg a alIon alion lIon s share of thmgsIrrigation things thmgs thingsIrrigation Irrigation companies compames farm farmers farmers ers and power companies let letsstart s sstart start action achon now ' 1\ot 1 ot \ ot only ] isUtahs S SUtah Utah s pgn gn ulture uIture dependent on onater onwater \\-ater ater \ - i f om the Colorado rivertout rIver rIverbut but our promising promlsmg mdustnes mdustneswIll industrieswill wIll need pO\\ pO power pOer \ er and such power powermay powermay may come through IrrIgatIon IrrIgatIonproJ irrigationprojects proJ ects Sheriff Sherif ! J B Skewes and andCounty andCounty County Attorney George Burck Burckreturned Burckreturned returned Friday Fnday from Salt Lake LakeCIty LakeCity CIty where the attended a can canference conference ference of officials called to todJSCUSS todiscuss dJSCUSS traffic safety They were wereaccompamed wereaccompanied accompamed to Salt Lake by byMrs byMrs Mrs Skewes and Mrs iMrs Burckand Burck BurckI Burckand and daughter Miss Barbara I |