Show nRY GUlCH ANNUAl ANNUAL AN AN- NUAl ElECTION Big Company Elects Officers For ForThe ForThe The Tho Year and Considers Many Matters Relative To Irrigation Tuesday February 2 the Dry Gulch Irrigation company perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps Utah's largest irrigation company having now approximately approximately approximately acres of land re reclaimed reclaimed reclaimed re- re claimed held its annual election and stockholders' stockholders meeting at Roosevelt electing a a. president vice-president vice and five directors What this company does or does not do is important not only to the basin but to our state because because because be be- cause it represents about 5 percent percent per percent cent of all the land actually producing producing producing pro pro- irrigated crops in Utah It Is a unique company in many respects There are no lords or dukes or earls in It Just ordinary ordInary ordinary nary farmers made it and still own it except that the state land- land board has now nearly 2000 shares or acres of the water which of course is for sale with the lands In this very simple democracy there is much to adm admire re and yet there is food for thought when its actions are reviewed because in that very simplicity of ownership ownership ownership owner owner- ship and operation is a weakness It is a sample of almost pure so so- Disinterest in the duty of each owner to be on the job jobI I for tl the e annu annual meeting I e l to represent represent sent HIMSELF is one big weak weak- ness Little more than half of the stock was represented Tuesday even with proxies on hand and fewer of thes proxies were voted than for several years The average average average av av- yearly meeting is considered consider consider- ed quite a good meeting if over shares are voted which is sometimes the case Stockholders ers are prone to trust to the lithe theother theother other fellow to handle their own work and they do But the Dry Gulch company isa is isa isa a big power almost free of debt resting in apparent security in its community of ownership and op op- op- op It is a credit to the Uintah Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah Basin In a generation of privation and some poverty the I people who have made it many now gone have reason to be proud New days are dawning more vigorous life will vill be forced into action As a stalwart child of the Isolated and desert flats this has grown into a manhood wherein responsibility becomes more recognized requiring careful careful careful care care- ful thought and action A marked marled tendency to it into districts corresponding to contiguous areas and canals is not perhaps wise Unity of action I made this big company despite the handicaps Only by unity and aggressive union of individual action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion may it pass on and become still greater and more worthy All efforts to divide it to make male the stockholder feel relieved of HIS responsibility Is wrong But on the contrary it is the duty of reaL leaders to help to make the ownership in the partnership shoulder its duty All AIl this tills is written because it is ismore Ismore ismore more or less applicable to every similarly owned irrigation system canal or partnership in the basin And we have about forty of them Perhaps a dozen have permitted their water filings to lapse or nearly so before awakening to the assumption of security that was not justified We Ve know one partnership called a company for twenty years that had its filings lapse two or three months before the stockholders awakened and It waters nearly 1000 acres of good land laud and Is as good a right as Utah affords Hence In tills this Dry Gulch annual annual an an- nual election we see the operation of a mammoth affair affair and it serves serve's s sas as an all index a measuring gauge for human activity as well as for I water Dozens of other companies ha have va held or will soon hold their annual elections representing that water which we know is so able We are all interested in what each one does O Officers of the Dry Gulch for forthe forthe forthe the ensuing year are president Horace Allred Roosevelt representing representing representing the Class D D. D canal out of |