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Show WHERE ARE UTAH'S IRRIGATION PROJECTS? Whoro is Utah In tho nrld land re-clamatlont re-clamatlont service? Is sho getting left? If so, why? IJvcry man conversant with irrigation irriga-tion and arid lnnd conditions in this stnto will concede that "no morn worthy place or people can bo found than is hero afforded for tho successful success-ful application and operation of the rorlnnintion land law." Why have 'thcro been no effective btops to thnt end? Why are California, Arizona. Col orndo, New Mexico, Idaho, South Dakota, Da-kota, Montann nnd Washington all having somo nctual construction work done or contracted for, while Utnli is dead as a door nail? The general government is not to blame, It has mndo its surveys. Go to tho olllco of Goorgo ly. Swenson, of tho government reclamation service, ser-vice, in Salt Lako City, and seo the, government plans. What Is being done In other states? 1. Tlioro is the big million dollar dam at Yuma, California, which Ih now being built. Tho government Is investing two nnd a half million dollars dol-lars of tho reclamation fund thcro, to help out I ho settlers in Hint pari of California and Arizona. What of Utah? 2. Tlioro Is the thlrty-mllo cnnal now under construction in Nevada, with a distributing system to cost three millions. Nevnda Is now getting more than her share of tho reclamation reclama-tion fund. What of Utah? 3. There is tho New Mexico project pro-ject at Uoswell, whoro tho government is getting water on twelve thousand acres of land, by a system that will cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now Mexico is in tho swim. Whnt of Utah? 4. There Is tho great Gunnison contract con-tract already let to tho extent of a million-dollar dam and cannls for half a million dollars. This system means threo millions begun to bo expended on thnt ono irrigation, schemo In Colorado. Col-orado. What of Ut h? 5. Tlioro ls the Bollo Fourcho project, pro-ject, in which tho government ls now advertising for contracts for a half million dam and inlet, tho systom involving in-volving tho oxpondlturo of three million mil-lion dollars of government money for tho benefit of tho agricultural settlers In South Dakota. What of Utah? C. Idaho has got down to work In tho great Minidoka project now being carried ) by tho government, which will irrigate a hundred thousand acres ' -biH of land In the Suako river country In two years from now, nnd ultimately ''q moans a two-million dollar irrigation ! works nt Mluldokn, Idaho. Jjt What of Utah? T! H 7. Montnnu's Yellowstone project, to irrlgato ono hundred thousand acres 1 ' or nioro, Is to bo advertised for this 'Mi mouth. It will uso two million dol- I ''J lurs, commencing this summer, in the ji'l stnto of Montana. ,H What or Utah? i MM 8. Tho I'alousu river scheme, In ! rfl Washington is lining mndo ready, with ''nfl tho likelihood that this suimnor will j sec contracts for a million dollar gov- !;' eminent irrigation project in the i'l stnto of Washington. , Whnt of Utah? ',H !). Tlioro are two Wyoming pro- !'iH Joels, one ready for actual work as jHH soon nH tho weathor permits tho tun- ?H ncl, dam and canals of llio North ii!H Platte works, involving throe million 'lil dollnrs; and tho other, tho Shoshone -iirl project, a two-million dollar enter- Iffll prise, to go on this summer. This is 4I llvo millions of tho reclamation fund IjlH for Wyoming. .lit 11 Whnt of Utah? (itH 10. Tlioro is tho big Salt river val- :1H ley project now getting into operation iiftl in Arizona. Threo millions of dollars aro being expended from tho rcclama "vl (Ion fund in our southorn neighbor' Interest. 'r 11 Whnt. of Utnh? fH This figures out as actually under i wny, oxcluslvo of tho I'alouso river !y 11 scheme, projects In the states nnd tcr- rltorlcH named aggregating $2.1,750, f'H 000 out of a total reclamation fund on July 1 next or $25,000,000, leaving HH only $1,250,000 unappropriated now. ll What of Utah? IH All or tlioso stato havo projects In embryo also. That Is whoro all ol -fll Utah's are. But the others havo some f; in fnct. NPjH Why hasn't this state? ii'H Two years ago Utah appropriated ll six thousand dollars for "somotlilng." ! Over flvo thousnnd dollnrs has been i" expended. For what? Fifteen thou i'l sand nioro Is asked. t'tfl For what? "H Utah had an nrld land fund rccla ; matlon commission to spend tho six Ll thousand dollnrs in getting govern-niont govern-niont reclamation fund monoy Invest- cd In Utah. Most of tho six thousand 'J was spent, but "nary a cent" of gov- I'l ornmcnt cash. Other states had, no flijl such commission, but got tho govern- THI mentjmoncy at work. Has that com illl mission done a slnglo good thing tha' Ifjl could not havo been dono by nn ordln- E ary clork In thirty dnys? tfl , What else has it dono? phi it stop all work in Utali by, In i isting on ono big visionary schemo'lto fll cover evqrythng from tho niackfoot.t'i Hil tha, DuChcsnc, nnd have it all knocked ilill In tho head by tho government say Hl Ing l,t wouldn't work, because dmprac iiflfl tieablo?VTtead tho commission's repor. Jl to thebvornor, pages 9, 13. amM4 9 iM i I, I and Chief Engineer Ncwcll's statement on tho DuChesno business which the ; report has been careful not to nolo. Did It figure out on paper, tho brlng- i! Ing of the waters of Bear lako Into l Salt Lake, thus crushing out tho hopes of Cacho and northern Box Elder, I when every schoolboy Jtnow this 3 Hchomo was boyond tho possibility of O culmination? Read Its report to the ' H governor, pages 14 and 1C. ; ill Did It hold up tho government's ' practical suggestion for water users' 8 associations on each river system (whoroby, for Instance, tho users of fl water from tho Salt Lako canals In Salt Lake county could havo been m brought together and had tho Utah 9 lako project started ore this), by In- jj Hlstlng on a vast "Utah and Idaho , water users' association," which was i ')oth Imposlblo and Imbecile? Read I tlio commission's report, pago 19. '. I , Did It mislead tho people of Utah ! t when It claimed that tho government f would not go on with any small schomo ij but wanted a grnnd project which would bo worthy of a glgantld i movement? See Its published state- mcnts, In newspaper artlclos and In- ! torvlows, and as to tho truth thereof, soo tho government getting In on tho : small quarter of a million dollar j schomo at RoswoJI, Now Moxlco, ad I well as tho big ones, and Its officials , openly declaring that It will not tako i tho big Impracticable scheme, but Is 1 ready as soon as tho pcoplo are, to i tako any practicable section, from Strawberry to Bear lako. And who Is ! "hedging" now, and saying tho government gov-ernment has "consontcd" to segrogato j when that Is what tho government has Insisted on doing all along? ' , Who conducted all tho commission's I . business? Why wcro four or tho llvo d members so llttlo Interested or too dls- J; gustcd to affix their nnmcs to the report to tho governor, or to nny doc- umont therein? .; What baa Utah got? Other states havo something to show for their j. monoy, and spent less of it. f Send fifteen thousand dollars moro nftor tho six thousand, Is tho request. ! Very woll. Then, when two years I ' moro roll around and wo look over the situation, answer happily tho question J if you enn: I Whnt of Utah? j, Isn't It hard enough to answer now? |