Show NOW OR NEN NUNER CR A few years yeara hence when every belond foot of water on the haj baj bien aten appio abed and every available reservoir site bite comer converted ted into a ato age ae reservoir then there will wiil still bo thousands of acres of as fertile land as the country affords lying idle for lack of water when tins this condition shall prevail on the reservation then many a pel son will ask tho the pertinent question wily why did the reclamation service spend fabulous sums of money in tunnelling tun nelling the range for the purpose e of robbing the fertile duchesne valley of the water that naturally belongs to it we make the unqualified statement now that the diversion of the waters of the strawberry liver is 13 a mistake nu stake a fatal mistake the waters of that river and indeed of tho proposed great reservoir are nef needed ded on this side of the mountains if it is taken av away ay then the country south of the duchesne roust must remain a barren desert it means that many homesteads almady aart ady aacen are fore forever vr to be absolutely worthless the citizens of vernal have done their bf abst st to prevent th the e con au su mation of this great injustice but row now it is not so BO much our fight as it is that of the actual settlers south of the duchesne ducheine river if they can tolerate it wb certainly can however we urge thorn thom to wake ake up and make a united protest protes t if the government cannot be induced to 0 in investigate to the matter ar aam ain it Is hould be carried into the courts if the matter is allowed to proceed until there 13 no remedy those who A ho suiter suffer cannot say the express did not warn them in due time the trouble has been that tho the farmers over the mountains have been awake while the duchesne valley settlers have been asleep if they do not wako wake up soon they will find their fertile homesteads without water it is up to them to act and to act effectively will they do it I 1 |