Show Rivers and Pigmies Our U. U S. S G. G S. S engineer Ralph R. R Wooley R. editor of the Utah En- En in the October issue of that monthly has an editorial with the heading The Colorado River Rivera a 3 Mere Pigmy We are advised that high pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure press stories have lead the people to believe that the Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado river is about the biggest thing in the world And we are told how boy relatively small it is The editorial then proceeds to advise us how it compares with some big rivers In South America Editor Wooley should should not take us for such unread people even if ifS S Senator Hyrum Byrum Johnsons Johnson's high pressure has got Boulder dam started by this high pressure stuff Even the kids know that the Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado is not one of the worlds world's big rivers However it Is big from certain angles Los Angeles wants it I about as much as Salt Lake wants this Uintah Basin water some of the Colorado water And we personally personally per per- JOnall believe that Mr Wooley is just as anxious to help Salt SaU Lake I City to get it as California leaders were and are to make the people believe that the of this country I Colorado is important I lust mean the l' l r on Provo Provo Provo Pro- Pro vo and Weber etc will reclaim reclaim and principally by using Duchesne river water But this table No 8 has a lot lotof lotof lotof of interesting data We cull out outs s us we understand it the following figures s the first giving the area each ach stream now supplies or irrigates and second the area it itIs itis itis Is capable capal le of irrigating This is really interesting because it comes to this Colorado river watershed and Inv involves the Uintah Ba Basin in Stream Prest Irrigable Fre Fremont I in n 0 San Juan t sen een n direct 1908 Colorado dir 1286 1581 1561 Ashley Duchesne Price river San Rafael Other trib In 1930 Duchesne county had 1 1002 irrigated farms fauns compared with ith 1188 in 1920 Uintah county had 1 irrigated farms in 1930 and in 1920 It is peculiar how the two counties come so close to a tie on the number of farms The increase indicated for Uintah county is evidently an an error because because because be be- cause that county we believe has had no such increase A large amount of interesting information from this government publication will be given in another another an an- n. n other issue of this paper This is isa isa isa a census and not an estimation of irrigation In Utah However the data is valuable even ven though it may be inaccurate |