Show irrigation BILL representative pope of wasatch county has introduced measure in legislature which will aid reservation er representative rock INI pope of wasatch county has haa begun early arly to look after the interests of not only illy hl bio own oan constituents but those in uintah county who reside on tho the reservation erv er if one of the bills he has haa introduced becomes a law tho cho reservation people will soon have haie the water problem solved and within a few years thousands of acres of land will be reclaimed the bill provi provides deG for the creation of irrigation districts any plue place in utah under the supervision of the county commissi onra of each county it will vill permit the people to form districts and issue bonds for the purpose of raising money momey for providing irrigation the information has been given ou that capitalists have already declared axed their willin willingness guess to advance money to tho the amount of 3 for the purpose as soon eoon as the bill becomes a law the bill cording according to represent aue pope embodies the features of similar bills passed by the legislatures of colorado and idaho idabo the plan has been tried for five years in colorado and has proved to be a great success if the bill la is passed it will permit the deop people ae of a district to practically form a corpora tion among themselves ies and issue bonds using their lands and ditches as security becu rity for the first ten bears 5 ears the interest on the bonds is only 6 per cent a year and the second ten years them the bonds bonda are paid off in ten annual installments Inte interest irest is collected by the county treasurer air pope baya that as far as he knows the bill will ft ill conflict with no other legislation it will ill put the in a position to irrigate his hie laud at a nominal cot coat hundreds aundre da of land owners are walt walteg fg until the laa la gives them to form dib tricas and issue bonds to ito begin work sark reclaim lne the waste places jackmauh Jack ac mau HeTT herrick ICI of Theod theodoro mv re bently wrote a letter to the corn com merical club of salt lale lake in which atch he declared that E E adlock dent of the romney adlock investment company of grand junction in specter the blue bench a plot of acres and said that it la is finer land than tho the celebrated orchard mesa ile ho said eald that mr air adlo odlo adlock ck expressed his vOllin willingness gnesi to loan joan the homesteaders in that section any amount needed for irrigation purposes two months after the law goes into effect the colorado company last year in december placed worth of bonds under the colorado law to irrigate the orchard mesa alesa and ares acres were watered at ered at a cost of 75 per acre adlock thinks that it if the irrigation law is passed the districts irrigated will havo have a population of in ten years it Is firmly believed that tho the law will ill be passed and mr air pope ft ill ex ort ert eiery effort in that direction some sohie years ago he be was a member of a company that madl made an ful attempt to float bonds tor for the re cla matlon mation of the orchard mea coun try but the project failed the colo rado state statute ho however weNer gave gane the protection necess necessary ATy to get the need ed money and the orchard mesa is fi at present one of the most valuable ablo pieces of growing graming land in the it Is estimated that there are 25 acres of land in tho the uintah basin to be reclaimed if the bul bill should become a law and the territory is I 1 irrigated r rapid advancement would be made in the development of tho res er ev no one thing would hasten the coming of the moffat road more than would the reclamation of the arid land of this section |