| Show r Uintah Basin m Has The Land Laid And Water Here re Is the Place For Farmers C Cheap heap Land and Water Vater Good Drainage Excellent Climate Vast 2 Wealth in in Timber Coal Hydrocarbons Phosphate phate pha te Etc You Uintah Basin people should I shout more to the other fellow the theman theman theman man living in the town out outside theis Inland Empire A depressed depress depress- ed cd condition a hearted down-hearted mood will only hurt you Optimism push faith in these riches will produce results Last week a committee of farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers called on our State Engineer Go M. M Bacon to discuss the water water water wa wa- i ter distribution effecting Utah Lake storage for 1932 You see they pumped old Utah Lake Lale nearly nearly nearly near near- I ly dry in 1931 and the question of getting it filled up is no small matter Our state engineer it is said estimated that upon present data and outlook the lake would receive receive receive re re- re- re a total flow for 1932 of about acre feet of water A bason ite bason-ite ite should not laugh But what do you think of acre feet of water ater as total expected expected expected ex ex- flow into Utah Lake for 1932 Out here we dont don't even notice that amount of water even evenin evenin evenin in a dry year like 1931 that is we wedo wedo wedo do not notice it enough Duchesne river alone has a runoff runoff runoff run run- off of about acre feet mean average It is not all aU used Ashley has some water enough for acres Then White river river riv riv- er has a mean average of about acre feet and not 2000 acre feet of it is used in forty- forty I five miles of good land through which it runs in Utah And Yampa river with a million million mullion mil mul- lion acre feet may be used to 50 of the total at far less cost than many Utah reclamation pro pro- When all the streams that supply supply supply sup sup- ply Utah's largest fresh water lake will give it only half as much total as White river we must suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose they use that water over there or that they never have much Here in this Uintah Basin we have 10 acres of land per capita the best of it supplied with ample water and more acres for which we have water and yet Utah as a state irrigates less than two acres per capita As A that includes this basin land our state would not have much as aa we irrigate acres out of about acres irrigated for crops per year Get your thinking apparatus working fellow citizen Utah must I have this land This basin demands demands demands de de- de- de mands more farmers Lets Let's get get these f fellow workers Tell the state about it Tell your relatives and friends Boost the basin And we can raise water melons and peaches If we dont don't start doing something we will by inactivity in inactivity inactivity in- in activity raise something else that thatis is h h- h |
