| Show legislation organize effort Nee to accomplish com anything A legislative committee of reven raven was chosen at the last meeting of the state slate agricultural society this committe corn mitte was instructed to io ask the farmers through the pi ess to gend fend to it any matter bearing on legislation of interest to farmers the committee was fur further ther instructed to put these matters mattei in proper form and lay them before beffre the legislature and work to get laws ben beneficial s to agriculture in all it branches passed by thelah making body in accordance with wit their eions we ie heartily invite the farm public to work with us and send fend uch buch i suggestions as to the individuals or societies may seem apet lpt though any matter may be fe feht it it was particularly desired that tha tithe the danners far express espres themselves in regard to the solution atthe ahe echeal land question and to MR 4 irrigation laws the school lands a t before survey as Taybe the letter sent out on 0 n the pi e subject 4 to homestead and this he the only safe way to gc got a XO alich lands land several lett ers limp ve been received in which in meny e amii laim in that by 63 error they cocat located ed ol 01 oisa a se school I 1 section that these errors r yo rs were caused through 0 au surveys incorrect plantings plat tings and otherwise oabe it is my my opinion that ol 01 athe the th error occurred by bv fault of t h f overn c ment survey or by the f alt it t trip the i governa ent agents 6 that t es ettler may homestead ha 9 error occurred fr other 11 u 1 the i w 5 Z fi n d that by a bona fide teft twenty I 1 thirty or even forty yeartie ye i earda arthe tile de cle apartment part ment will ill construe everything possible in his favor the only way to test the case is to apply to the land office for a holn homestead estead As to the disposition of the school lands by the legislature the farmers are es especially ally requested to express their opinions opinion sS in I 1 doing this let reason reabon rule and remember that these lands landa lia hant S been used without the rent or taxes and that the schools must be kept up by direct ta taxation aside from the funds furnis furni jod alicd by tile the interest on the money from the sale of the school lands irrigation after nearly fifty years A ears of peaceful d development is now one of the for foretro foremost erro si t topics for proposed legislation the cause of this violent shaking up is the presence of so 91 water corporations po rations who will kold hold and operate the canals but willo neither own nor cultivate the alid larido ali in the governor s rots n age sage OC occurs eurg the follo following winz in regard tri tn laws on irrigation for the filing arid and recording of 01 rights 0 air already ady acquired through appropriation the use of water all ali agree agre that this would be a very verv desirable matter to bring about wert possible this was wa attempted years ago and after costing coating the territory and 7 the farmers thousands of dollars it was found that the filings were worthless and it was stated at our meeting that in the salt lake county offie office there were a groat number of certificates that eret never even called for after they were ere made out by the recorder the proposition was I 1 discussed at some length and it jinas thought well nigh impossible to effectually file and read rights after some of them had bad existed for nearly fifty years it would be her well for the farmers to intelligently investigate this matter and give their desires in the mat matter attention is called io ic the leading measures of interest to farmers now pending before the legislature viv vir the torrens land bill the board of land commie boners the new entry law and the holding of formers farmers institutes it was thought desi desirous that once or twice during the session the legislative cammi committee atee visit the capital and aid our friends in the legislature in meeting objections to proposed measures if this be doue done it will be necessary to raise some funds funda at once to defray expenses the executive committee think best to ask the vice president of each county to forward as a loan 10 at once and then to keep back the morey from the first twenty members from his county the farmers all over the state are asked to join the state or organize as rapidly as possible the society is now out of debt and the executive committee hope to keep it so but the treasury is now without a balance all communications in regard to legislation should be addressed to the president at logan all money should hould be sent to P A dix secre daiy and treasurer 1 salt I like lake city utah A A MILLS pret prea pre t utah state Amri agricultural cultural society |
