| Show THE a I THREE a IMPORT is Q ANT r wv S I UT UTAH IS FO FORCED ItC Ell TO DO DO SOME SOJI lI I. I THI G THING iG l POR OI EAsTERS EASTERN UTA UTAH TO DO TUB IOSSI huiST ISrin IJ SOW IS TUB THE PLAX PLAN r j v By J. J J.P. P. P la May laThi ay Thi Colorado l river Question lu for i Utah Utah in involves olves three Important 1 p propositions s Y viz z Ff t make ef b ben ben- n- n i e use of ot the thc watal before the theother other ot r f fellow 1 clots belor u uses rises es It I Second get into a compact o wherein vh i iOU OU our state will b bo ho so so macli I W ter water that th it lt may use use within fifty Uty ye years rs or some other r long l l peno period llod 1 Thud Third nl r lose If rights T tier rt iere cje is if way r co course r e that will protect tot ct us at a all l. l Ut Utah I must must protect rote tits itself f. f but Is not ready leady properly prop prop- erly h informed di ambitious or l ambi ambitious enough to to use use the water low now Therefore the Utah p plan n is is toge to get et In with Other states and anti have la so so much w water ter set aside which n may ay be used s during the next nest fifty yea years s In Iii Jl these columns tho the writ writer i has Cr from time to time placed d before the people of the time basin basin ba ba- sin Sill the great areas ol ot land and which should hould be reclaimed the misinformation mation given out b by hi government o re- re sur e surveys R an H il th the non non- reliability of ot data at 1 hind mud mIl Early Eaily In Inin Inin in 1926 we made mad a suncy CY of the acreage creage now reclaimed d and a now partly provided v with it 11 vater Jt r IJU out not noc reclaimed In many stow stories we ha have e advised our v fello citizens that we are not properly protecting ourselves The Uintah basin th the major part pait of Utah's interest in iii thin thia whole question in the time farm farming in end of it at least has placidly waited wafted expecting some fairy god m god mother 10 to todo do it it The time has come fellow citizens citizens citi citi- zens zeus when we should demand that the land may b be reclaimed at reasonable cost should be reclaimed now low not ten or twenty years hence This subject will be studied during dining I the next t sixt sixty days das more more than it has Imas I been the time last twenty years s. so far fara faras faras a as Utah is cOl concerned Is it n not t time I j that hat all our communities should i meet neet and provide a reasonable fund for f r securing two o or three comp competent ten l I i engineers to make surveys for Cor usand us usand us us- and compile data winch which will defend our out rights Is It fair for Cor San Pete county to g get t cash for water at 70 per acre foot when we wo cannot annot get g-et money to reclaim land at a I. I cost 0 of oT v 50 for for three acre acre feet Ceet Does oes it itSe Se seem semi l fair Calr thi thus hi basin separated by bYl bad cl lands ands on the s south uth and west Land L and bY Utah's high highest sf ran range on the north nohh should be kept in this isolate e ld we not try to lQ I I get gey get capital c capital to reclaim the J dJ d- d e tract at at- ata a very ery low cost instead oCi It it indefinitely indo Is Kt it t tr r fair tali i to h to-ha to haye e c the the Our Ouray y- y vall valley y denied which L 40 40 perr per an acre ono e eo- eo foot oud-foot ond Jo ool t pel per acres r will reclaim r ni 7 Sho Should d we we submit to these those blanket withdrawals that keep leep the SO South SOth th Myton 1 1 bench coun country held uj up up and h i back back Isit it not time not time that tie time White river ri tract tract about costing I about o tt 10 pet per acre for acres of Indian la should land d be producing pl crops Surely it is time lime for Cor each leader t to scratch his head join l his is neighbor and crowd his leis own civic organization organization tion tiou so that we shall protect this protect this basin b by having these lands reclaimed reclaim reclaim- ed without delay delay- instead of supinely submitting to an deal so that Utah leaders west of the 1 Wasatch V a a- a satch may say Well done We Ve will wil now no let the Uintah basin rest we get ready We Ve do do not wan want charity all we want is cons conservative money for fot investments far fUl to the average reclamation tion projects in the time west The great question of pf government oWl ownership and opera ol operation of oC power powei pl plants one big issue is secondary as far as we are arc now concerned Arguments made by men like Judge 1 that the time best wa way to heal beat the time trust Is to have communism m co contrary to logic facts and ex experience cri- cri ence but here have hav little time for Cor study and thought on academic academic aca aca- demic questions These practical 1 matters smatters involving our land and water vater come como before light and power power rates important as these are arc Weare We Weare Ie are not asking r for r big changes All All we demand Is is an equal chance with other parts of or th the irrigated west We Ve shall not get tl this i unless we wo demand de de demand mand it Jt T This s demand must be supported by f facts gathered by hy our om friends here her rather than by experts looking g off into the time distant future |
