Show WOULD REDUCE COST suggestion made to parties interested 2 in te in south myton bench to put in pump mr 11 II B fuhrman foreman of the government ditch camp generally known as the Fu fuhrman lirman camp was wag in vernal this week he will resume work on the gray mountain ditch near the indian village between theodore and myton just as soon boon as the fiest is butof the ground ila ho saas sa s that and it lush ish are now engaged on work ork at the had gates mr fuhrman thinks that work on the various canals and latte lat terah rals will not be in full owing until the beginning of the fiscal some time in july as aa the appropriation for chii year is 13 about exhausted ile he is also of tho the opinion that the will ilo nol be sufficient to finish up all the work planned something like was uz d from another fund and it is hoped that the government ull ill allow that in addition to the regular I 1 I 1 believe that the bill introduced in the senate of the united states providing for the leasing of allotted lands for a period of twenty years is a good one and will attract many people to the reservation if passed said mr a few dais ugo ago it would be an inducement for a man to impie empron a the land T twenty enty years is 13 a long tune time and it would be worth while I 1 think it would be a good plan also to give the lessee an option to purchase the land at its value when he leases it and not at its value in five or ten or twenty years the reservation is going to bo be a great Lou country lie he continued much of it willbe will bo self supporting this coming year especially that portion around roosevelt lots lota of small grain grain and vegetables vegetable i were raised last year and tho the farmei received tho the highest market price anco in clish cash we paid as high LIS as 2 35 per hundred for oats oata right from the machine and as high as three cents per pound for potatoes soon after they were dug somo some progress is being made on private canal work I 1 believe that the people who have tackled the problem of watering the south myton bench have a big job on their hands front fronir the point on the duchesne river some twenty miles above myton where they propose to divert the water it will cost not less than to put the water on to that bench about acres acrea of land Is ia to be irrigated by that ditch which would bring the cost up to 10 per acre pretty steep dont you think I 1 have suggested to the parties in te rested a scheme which will lessen the cost coat at least three fourths there is ia a drop of sixty feet in the glay mountain ditch at a point about eight miles milca above myton mylon and twelve miles below theodore at that point a pump can be installed which would throw the water on the land in question at a cost of not more than J GO 50 per aero acre to be sure the clay mountain ditch would bave to be enlarged upon but tho the total cost need not exceed |