Show A GROSS INJUSTICE ahe strawberry reservoir project over which the salt lake and utah county are arc chuckling with undisguised satisfaction is beginning to attract serious attention on tilts this side sida of the range and well it may but it is really doubtful if the far reaching results that will follow are fully appreciated by many of those who will be affected in the furuie although there is a lery ery general sentiment among the people of northeastern utah that there is ia a gross injustice in the scheme this sentiment gives every indication of crystallizing crystal izing in the form of a strong and numerously signed petition ahding wit that tile the interior intel lor department make a thorough thoi ough investigation of tile the relative results rL SUItS as affecting both the utah and duchesne valleys there is 13 probably not a single citizen of this section of the state who is not heartily in favor of the reclamation policy as now being conducted in various parts of the country by the government cr ern ment that is in a general way but it does not follow that because of this that they must surrender their own rights to others who are clamoring for something to which they have no moral right under the bun bull and this they will do if they sit ait calmly down while the great reservoir sch scheme eme is 13 being cari earned led out lor for tho the sole sol benefit of those on the west side of the range let us draw an illustration ileac in the ashley valley after struggling along lor for a number of years yeara with an insufficient supply of water the farm eis haye have awakened to the necessity of storing tho the surplus water of tho the ashley crt anek ek and a company has bea been n foi boim m ed for the purpose of impounding the wealth of water that annually runs to waste I 1 that fiat the future agriculture ex of uintah county depends in a very great measure upon tho the success of this enterprise is without question now just suppose that when people here awoke to the necessity of storage reservoirs they were confronted with the fact that five years ago tho the people of the Ilen henrys rys fork side of the range with the assistance asai stanco of the government had bad filed on oil the reservoir bites and had secured tho the flood water of ashley creek to divert the range would not uch such a contingency mean a very great deal to tile the farmers of this valley all along tile the duchesne valley are numerous benches the acclamation icela mation of which will only bo be a qu question stion of a few years if nv water ater is 18 available but NN which aich must remain barren and unproductive otherwise when tile the normal how of the reservation streams bt reanis hoa has bm utilized the will dia di A tile then attention to the opportunities fol foi storing the hood flood waters and when ahn that tune time canies conies thare will be n sad but belated awakening to the fact if it becomes a fact that the finest Noir sito site in III tho the west and which by all rules of reason belongs to the duchesne valley as taken aiom f I 1 oni them through th bough the greed of the older portion of the state coupled with the car carelessness and of the people of tills this section tho the express fully understands the situation we fully realize that both the utah senators and con giessman are in favor faor of this thia injustice hint state engineer Engine cr tanin is also a utah countryman Coun county tyman man with nith his section sectional als sm ni fathies also but wo 0 o feel that it is our duty to sound a note of warning lit at this time before it is ia too late it is 13 not that the settlers sett leis immediately along the will be affected al hough there are irany aho vho believe that sulli such will nill bu ba the ease ase but is in the interest of fatute settlers and the young men who are growing up in our midst that some action should be betoken bet t iken and at once that it will in with the futura development of the duchesne valley does docs not admit of argument let a strong petition lo bo drawn up at once asking that the interior dehait go the situation citie fully if there 13 s to be ba government money for the storage of water katerin in the straberg Stra berr valley and there is for both sid sides of the range as has had been baen intimated by a salt lake paper then let the duh bail valley in on the deal to take snap judgment ton en the situation arid and gobble up tho the opportunities port unities before the settlers can get on the round ground because of the te serva tion condi condition tiong is taking an undue ad vantage hat does docs not contain onea single ingle element of justice ustice steeped in that narrow egotistical 1 acirit that characterizes tho the greater part of the salt lake i less es i we expect absolutely nothing from that quarter it is ih up to the people of utah to move at once or surrender opportunities th tint that at will le ce leof of tn III calculable value in the tha future despite all of our protests last su eum mer ter the application for straw berty ben y and a part of currant creek was granted gi anted and tile the signers of there the re mons monstrance tiance were none the wiser and i not even informed of the affair until recently as the following ir letter ater will show jan mr herbert ct al vernal utah gentlemen you are advised that the application of frank C episey made january 27 1904 tra transferred nsf erred to lemon et al may 16 1905 modified to exclude all the waters mentioned in the application except strawberry river and part tf currant creek may 27 1905 trans trang forred from hyrum lemon et ct al to the united states reclamation service august 11 1905 has been granted very respectfully CALLS TANNER state engineer |