Show SCARCITY OF WATER ON THE BEAR RIVER strong humanitarian proposition mails made by W S hanson hansen with it a view to helping those who have hot F fielding lel diug utah july 17 im edl tor Do docket cret news newa la in the year 1904 our water supply was ample in fact there was water enough left in hear bear river fiver to lo run the power plant all it was gioe rally believed by water users under the bear river canal system that a tibor tage ot of water would never cone come to them the splendid spring rains wo we had bad this teada nude made us eel fact still laore inure secure you can hardly imagine our surprise when aboud the tam 0 of july the power plant had to close down for or at of water by the fifth of july the sugar company was compelled to close down to nearly one half stream all of 0 the head gates on the west nest side sl and a lew few dayt idler cut off the aas mt side ide alto gather Ket lier the suddenness ot of the failure allure has caught many of the users of water on the ilia west ilde ilae illy prepared more with the firs irrigation of beets however very few it any beets at al this date have not been irrigated one once and many fields have now bad their second so the feeling is quite general that our beet crop Is sale bale the grain crop Is now advanced that it will make without any further irrigation the irrigation tor for second crop alfalfa is IB atso ako fit far advanced so our losses will principally come on third crop alfalfa so much hay bay was carried over from last season that the third crop bay Is hardly worth the water and work it takes to produce it and should it I 1 t be too light to harvest fur for hay bay it will still furnish furniss pasturage so bo after all we on the westal west side deol of bear river are probably more soared scared than hurt dotso not so with wilb aur friends on the east side ot of the ibe river who have only a secondary right in the waters of the bear greatly encouraged by bythe the large surplus sui plus of water in alie river IP it the year 1904 and probably by other sources ayi acres of sugar beets were planted this season eabon only yesterday I 1 tad bad occasion to travel through about 15 16 miles of country coun tryon on the east side of the river I 1 saw acid took paril ilar notice of at least one half bait ot of the beet acreage and I 1 could riot help but commend and our on the looks of their crop A low estimate of the value of their beet crop could it 11 be matured mat ared would be SO per aare abich makes a grand total of think of this enormous loss to a poor community that la Is already overburdened with land and water debts and debts ot of many other kinds W list hat the panic of 1803 was to myself and many others the failure allure of the beet crop will be to the poor east siders to say that bat t I 1 feel sorry tor for our east side friends expresses in a very feeble way the true feelings of my beart at the present time anly those who have ha ire passed through hard bard and oiher troubles can truly sympathize with those who are tactile facing them Is there a remedy I 1 say there Is the normal slow how ot of the west side canals la is second feet the flow has varied very little the past week f from rom feet with I 1 think a possibility of lo increasing a little from rom now on for tue season that the grain crops in the upper country are practically made the larie large hay ranches in the upper valleys will soun soon it if they have not already turned the water back into the river and tor for the runner artber reason that we on the tha west westlee wes ide tide t who have primary rights cao can by sacrificing a little of our third crop alfalfa and by being a little more careful in antho the use of our scant supply spare 8 or 10 per centra our present that will give our friends on the east side about 25 second feet beet which by economic use will mature their bett beet crop I 1 have a tally paid up water right lor for acres I 1 freely and gladly give all over und and above one hall half my schedule stream tor fur tho the next five weeks and I 1 most earnestly appeal to every water waiter user on the west side to do the same what it if wedo we do lose a little third crop hay bay it means at least MO 40 to our friends who can III asora to lose it I 1 believe my friends 1 if we do this we will touch a chord in tho libarty of tim iler iier cseri in the cache mid and beir river valleys who will ahsu d little la in the use ot of their water bo ui ab to spare a little lor for our friends I 1 anticipate an aa answer like this from some of 0 my friends it li no fault ot of ours it Is abe fault ot of the eusi eust siders themselves or the sugar companas comp anys fault I 1 am in no framo frame 0 of mind now to discuss who Is at fault I 1 say let us save the corrip cri ip and then take up the quest ion ot the cause and see se to li it that it does docs not occur again adalu it li Is very cold comfort to say to a ruan man stuck to ID a in pass las ing glop him I 1 my friend had you driven a little to the right you would have p pits iss pd fd through without getting stuck the part of 0 wisdom and true fellow blila Is to hitch bitch your team on an and pull him blai out even if it does doca take lake a little or of your tour time if anything Is done it must be done quick to 10 he be of 0 any use I 1 suggest that water users on the west side II if this plan meets their approval app rosal telephone to the sugar company com any at once I 1 what they are willing to do I 1 will 1 lal ask aik you mr alt editor to use your influence in the good cause andallo aud also Eug suggest gest that thai the boxelder jioie Box lder elder county use diligence to in giving this matter publicity in conclusion I 1 wish to say that I 1 have nu no personal interests on the east side of the I 1 liver iver the thought that prompted the writing or of tha article came to me while traveling through the country yesterday yours for the cause or of humanity W WS S H As aen |