| Show Basin aC asp 0 Must Progress MT Hoover Dam and Other Forces Compel immediate immedi immedi- ate Consideration of oft this is Big Inland Country Blue Bench and Pleasant Valley Demand Attention Now Even If Other Projects Must Wait These Should Proceed And Lets Let's Have Moon Lake Too N Nr r f Despite hard lard times mc pessimism t r drouth and all the ills that go with such conditions produced by these face factors factors fac- fac f e tors tor it must be recognized that the thel he her r 5 l' l Uintah Ba Basin ln may not wait much longer long- long er for far that Square Deal to which itIs ItIs it itis is entitled and for which it has teas waited so long Let us have haye Moon loon lake That Thatis I is all right But mn may we afford to perl per- per l i. mit unit that to be all our present effort r I to proceed I properly in reclaiming I th these se vast ast areas Utah's Colorado River Hiyer water mIter storage per information given out July mh in Salt Lake Ike r regard the mattEl matte mat mat- te tear teas as serious Amon Among four major studies s the commission recommended per press report is the study of the Duchesne river dyer It is said aid per the rePort report report re re- port that there is ample water perthe per perthe perthe the lands the data at nt hand to provide along this river s system stem with ample wat water r. r provide safety supplies for future future future fut fut- ure urban development and still and still leave leavea a surplus for trans mountain diversion This trans mountain diversion no doubt douht refers to the filing flUng oti on on the Duche Duchesne Duchesne Duch Duch- e esne esne river for fifty tIfty second feet o of water water wat wat- er er- erto to be diverted into the time Provo river as ns well as acre feet storage I. I The other states state in the upper division division divi divi- sion slon of the Colorado have ha mode made ready and row now ask that Utah give out her demands an and be ready really to sho show where and und how the state will u use e the the- water But Utah has hns done little along this line except hold meetings Perhaps this apparent dela delay is caused by hy lack of state funds appropriated 1 because cauRe as wP 1 it it th the tho money for the tIll r i commission Is almost almo t spent now and andr r r. r the job joh of surveying In Is not done At a meeting held hI 1 per Governor Dem's Dems call in Salt SnIt Lake City July Jiffy G 0 nine counties were represented Duchesne Duch esne county was the only one of the j eastern fr counties represented At that meeting advised ise h by Chairman we were i r Wallace that the present pro program ram wasa was a f a n matter of careful planning and und de- de ii mantled 1 looking into the future ten teng g twenty five and even a hundred years I ahead Duche Duchesne Duehesne n Washington ton and Kane counties the I x were only ones really by natural lay of the land having hay hav hayIng 11 ing In an Interest in the Colorado river watershed But this trans mountain diversion di brought the other five coun counties ties there Our Strawberry water was taken by tt this thiR trans method and now the head Duchesne ne W waters tel may nun l he e likewise 1 r taken If we dont don't look out all we shall r get et Is MOOT Moon oon lake the cheapest storage I. I I water In Utah Lets Let's this have Moon OO I Jda p a water ater But we are entitled to v. v more This Blue Bench h has waited a s 's J generation Jenera t ion and the same Rame applies to the 4 valley land Should we not r Whelp For other counties they talk tall bout about water on this trans mountain I basis fiS at costs cORb as ns hI high n as per acre foot as though that is all rl right 1 Jb Out here In the Uintah Basin one- one fourth of that cost ost will handle lal large Ct V acreage and provide foi stimulation new r population ideas hIen and wealth It is high ll time that the farmers farmer of the Basin Bas Bos In ln should gather ather in precinct or district 1 x meetings s and a ask k for a square deal eal ti That which helps Vernal helps 15 Rosevelt and whatever cr helps noO Roosevelt Roose Roose- Roosevelt e- e velt veU helps help Myton and Duchesne We e have hm-e no hi big towns Our farm lands are arc hemmed in b by mountains Our interests Interest ore are very ery mutual n thus far and amI must be he some time to come Stimulation of Ilmy r one section will he help IJ p all aU others please remember this It is true Hence 0 to n ak k for water for Dura Ouray Valley is rs hll all ll right and to reclaim Blue Bench i and Pleasant Valley is IR good hus business ness Lets Let's get et together Leadership IR is demanded de Ile- no more than Individual determination and und action This means menns you on Basin ite all of us |
