Show NOVEL conservation editor express sir while we are recipients of a tine fine snow allow storm today to day how will it be about next august when the water becomes scarce I 1 have a proposition to submit to the people of ashley valley that would to a great degree decree thad problem it is a winter storage scheme it la Is not to reservoir the lakes at the head bead waters of our streams but to go in the late fall and divert the streams flowing out from the lakes onto the parks and timbered ravines let this flow continue all winter and freeze mountains of lea to melt as the summer ad ances and feed our streams late into the season it other words worda lot let nature with a little assistance from us consummate a conservation eye tem this plan carried out on a larger scale would not only water the present but make a supply fir f r ranch much of the untouched land at around aund this N alley I 1 B imply aalt a ant to call attention to this matter which is the business of the canal companies tomp anies to look after the interest of the general public it Is moreover a certainty that it if these water supplies reservoir sites etc are not taken up soon in the interest of the people who rightfully should have them they will fall easy and lucrative prey to corporations po rations who will take them marily to exploit their values in private gain take the water now while it Is untouched water Is the apal consideration tor for a grub stake to our families as winter drans draa on DH IT C HULLINGER |