| Show MOUNT PLEASANT ON They Want Special Correspondence Mount Pleasant Co March 8 To arrive at Lit some definite condo conclusion dolt sion and to unite on some definite pol policy icy respecting Irrigating matters and the presentation of 01 the thu water sheds of county a ft convention was held here hete afternoon The people lucre here ate agitated over the threatened creation of a forest reserve ot of their watersheds end the lie Is being discussed In every home The Th county convention was called by bytho bythe the tho count county board while In session n it week ego ugo nt rut the Instance of or some seine of the Iho delegates who haul had been In attend attendance undo ance at itt the tho recent state Irrigators con coui convention and by others who sire are Inter Interested ested In the question at Ut Issue There 07 delegates present from rein all pre Ire precincts In the county and they were the most abet prominent representative men nien of each place The following were adoptS adopt adopted ed edt by the convention with little opposition tion it resolved by the hue Sanpete county count Irrigation convention That we urge tho tiu next suite state legislature to enact such Hitch laws haws as is shall enable the farmers and Water users ulcers nf at this state to perpetuate time the evidence of their right and uund title to o the use of water hy by matter ot of record so a that such title may be trace traceable able time the same as the title to lands Is Isnow now nest traceable thereby to avoid future confusion anti and litigation bo be It further That we tire are opposed to any state control of our water rights either cither by Iy a hoard of or oth otherwise but believe that our Interests ran best bo be by local a aIn In Iii the lie management control regulation and distribution of our waters and t to that end we most earnestly request ou out next state legislature to enact such laws laura as will the tho more fully enable us t to accomplish this lIds object In a i prompt In und manner n a copy of this thou bo be forwarded to the State Irrigation tion association hereafter to bo formed and thee also that u ii COPY cony hornet bo be forward forwarded ed to the state Irrigation convention to meet at itt Suit Salt Lake City April 2 1002 1902 Wo We favor the cod codIng Ing of the tho natural watershed by time government to the tho people to be gut by cities towns und am villages ant anti that It U Is time the sense ot of this limbs that the delegates representing at itt the Irrigation convention t to tobe be hold April 2 1902 ut Suit Salt Jake Uke City work to that thuit end Wo We are ed b by bythe the press dispatches that the secretary ot of time tho Interior has luita ordered the tho with withdrawal front from entry ot of largo large tracts o othe of the lands within title this state com coin comprising over agree nail and has es forest reserves out of time th santo canto otto one beginning At tt or tr near th time northerly boundary of Cache county anti and thence running southerly nearly to Suit Salt Lake City one running from Halt Hal Luke City CItI on time thu north thence running southerly to the south boundary of PI PIute ute tile county on oft the tho south and being about 18 IS mites miles wide another beginning near the town ot of on th the south thence running northerly nearly nearl to PaysOn City on the tho north besides beside other Ithem smaller io now therefore be It Hy time the people ot of county In lit an nit Irrigation convention DS Lie that thai we tie protest against sUch wholesale timid and as we think such un umu unnecessary necessary withdrawal of such mich tracts ot of the thu public domain from rout entry und and sate for the reason that such with must work great greul timid and bio blo Injury to our stole stute without being II IL will re cc lard the development of our moment mineral re rt resources sources by excluding time the minors train fron said colt tracts of if land hind It will retard on by excluding the farmer ami from auth large portions of the tue public lands buds nm anti thui farmers hi lit obtaining front fron such reset reserves van thou their fuel am timber with which to Improve their homes and farms a as also tim tho grazing of their domestic stock It will whit be do of tilL the sheep and auth stock Indus Industry try of ot the lie state It will render almost almos valueless the land grant mado by hI the tho g of time tho States to the state of at Utah In Iii that th the lands hands titus thus withdrawn comprises nearly all au the tho valuable vacant public lands land within this state Mute and out of which such lands no o granted could otherwise ho sc unit and sold by this the state stale It Is unnecessary because large par por of the land thus thiu withdrawn are devoid of or limber und there are ho no watersheds to be he conserved on atm large larg portions of sold said reservations That Flint wo tsa favor time the conS con autO and pi election of time the water vator watersheds sheds and water courses of every city and town butt In the state elate either hy by the es cc of timber reserves or oth cruise to the reasonable neCessity thereof and Am recommended that forest rest x M sheds and be b ler time the Immediate conic contro anti and of the respective tutu inu H Ii t lee concerned therein herein I that ilium t tea rea reasonable and tint definite limits to such nuch re ro reserves serves be and that the re cc of the reserves heretofore es cc bo be restored to time the public do domain It main |
