| Show The Urban Clamp 0 A. A Sacrifice Under Mask Of Right No More Reclamation for Now v for New v Projects Complete the Ones Started and Supply More Water Vater for Lands Now Farmed One of our big dailies gave some wonderful information on November November Novem Novem- ber her 24 from Dr Wm Peterson of the Agricultural college at Logan viz as quoted from the Doctor Recommendations passed at the conference of land utilization at Chicago November 19 to 21 are directly favorable to the development development development develop develop- ment of the western weste states The Recommendation on reclamation reclamation rec rec- rec- rec is all aU that the west could hope for and of vital Importance in view of the fact that many influential influential influential in in- men in the eastern states are directly opposed to any further further further fur fur- ther reclamation activity in the west Apparently this conference at Chicago urged that reclamation be confined to finishing projects already started and to making better bettel water rights for lands now under e and and- that that- NO NEW lan lands s or colonization po- po be that is until needs them I How is that Uintah Basin I What do you think of it eh We just let California have Boulder dam wl which ch will irrigate one million million million mil mil- lion additional acres which is ismore ismore ismore more than Utah and Nevada now crop per year That half million deal will vill proceed yes surely The Great Bash project supplying supplying supplying sup sup- plying water for Salt Lake City Ogden Logan and Provo at about fifteen million under way or started will go forward We shall shaH have Moon Lake which is allright allright all allright right but more than that we may not expect for a long time or not until the nation needs it And in the face of this the Col Col- river project is proceeding with more definite aim and plans than anything in the Upper Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado area And that Columbia deal will cost about the same as Boulder dam But to make it seem more desirable de- de more fair and right the water for the Great Basin Salt Lake City project must come from Duchesne river principally Our Strawberry water is taken to Utah Lake and now must we submit to this second steal as it appears to a Uintah Basin landi landowner landowner land land- i owner Vast tracts of our lands are held tied sewed up waiting and waiting The estimated costs of reclaiming those lands Is wrong unfair and unjust While Whilo these hundred of millions are spent during the next five iye to toI I ten years taking our ur Colorado river watershed rain and snow we just have to take It easy and wait Does it mean more Or less Are we not justified in telling the truth about the South My Myton ton the Dead Mans Man's bench and other marks of this hold back game Tl This s paper will win to tell it as long as you fellow ci citizen izen will stand firm and fight for right and justice This program means a phase of ot robbery to us It is taking from us that which caused us to some here that is cheap water and cheap lan land l. l And giving that tha water water water wa wa- ter on long time Ume without interest to Urban use although he helping ping enough land to lend it the guise or aspect of reclamation n. n In reality reality reality real real- ity it is not reclamation they want so much as it is more water for city use |
