Show UT UTAH IRRIGATION AI BY GOVERNMENt M T lion Hon Jon F a S S Richards Tells Just What Has Jas Been Deen Accomplished By Visit East Bast E st SECRETARY HITCHCOCK TALKS Says Sas the thc Utah is One of the Ibe Greatest of Hind Ever Attempted lly By 0 Administration In further conversation with wih Attorney F I S 8 Richards s relative rel to his recent rent Washington experiences In behalf of or orthe the tho Utah Ulah Irrigation proposition he tie said sold On tho tIme arrival of ot Mr Dremus at Washington wo we secured a 0 meeting with both the Utah senators and con congressman gressman arid and Ind explained to them fully what wo we 0 were w re there for tor and ond Just what our plans comprehended They all 01 three thre heartily heartly expressed themselves In approval of ot the matter and gave cave Sc us usall usall all alt the tho assistance they possibly could culdon Then on there was a I meeting of or Profs Newell Newel and amid Pinchot with wih state engin engla engineers core amid ald assistants tant of ot the tho states Mates to be under the Ie arid orie land Irrigation lion tion ton appropriation lon act passed P by Con Congress Congress gress Prof Newell was WI Very cry complimentary to tho the Utah Ulan Ulah be because b because cause of the lIme systematic care car and I thoroughness with which they had Pro pre prepared pared their plans and Ind stated that Ihl hu lie had and adopted el both of ot them Into the tho arid land reclamation commission on and that they would be bo consulted by ly him on eu I fre frequent tl fr quent qu nt occasions on account of ot their knowledge of or what was WM wanted and uld i how It was to bo be done In fact the lie attentions shown the tho Utah people by bytho bythe the tho government was Wal a strong acknowledgement of ot the value of ot our economic methods of at procedure arni of ot othow how hov to accomplish a 1 great greM deal In lii a n short time Prof Newell Newel expressed himself as strongly endorsing time the Utah proposition tion lot and passed the he matter er on with wih his Director Wal Wai approval to his Ils superior I Iett colt tott of or tho the const survey The Tho readi readiness I Inels ness flees nels with wih which tho director II rector himself 1 comprehended and assented to tho time plans proposed further showed Phoned the tho ad advantage vantage of or knowing just what was wanted and how to satisfactorily ex Cx explain plain It with wih time the laws governing the time theCAe case CAe to the tho department The rime next step stell was to see sc the time secretary of tIme the Interior Secretary SecretlY Hitchcock has hal been ben regarded e by many milan people who had bind called cale on him hint himas as 13 being very ver gruff grut and hard hall to ap approach 1 apProach but we were sere Inclined to 10 think this hits wits was because such euck people had not been bel able ale to plain just what they wanted and the laws governing It I In Ina ina a brief space of or n nWe We were Introduced to the he to ask If it I we wo were prepared to l state at itt tt once mace everything wo we wanted and fo o post poet pst him on the tho laws r 1 B the tho some ae We replied that lint Was ju just JuU t what we ave could ull do and au did do doto doto doto to the gratification of or the time officIal and the tho Interview resulted r sll d In h the heartily hearl approving the plum plan proposed to I reclaim the time great tract In II this state and In n promising to do everything In II his power to help the matter mater along Mr Richards then called caled special elc at attention to 10 what the endorsement of at the thic secretary tenton meant meant tie lie said Bald It I means surveying great Strawberry basin ball nt at government expense evenso so O ns fiC to tam Just how mUch Uch water can en bo ho bt held there also alEo the me cost of ot the three and anda a n half miles tunnel under tinder the tho divide which wilt wi let tho timo water Into Inlo this timia ba basin bl sin SImm and then ascertain Just JUt what It I Is Isto Isto Isto to cost cst to lay tho the water vater down In Salt Bait Silt Lake This Information would cost cot tho the state tens of ot thousands of or dollars If It Utah had to pay for tor It I hut now the tho government will wi attend to It nil all ni The Thu To government will wi also als pay vay for tor survey sune surveying lug ing the tho proposed great geat canal no tie largo large n the Erie Irle canal leading down from Bear Benr al Lakeland skirting the time AN Wa a patch catch pich foothills ns os far south as ns Goshen In fact all of ot the tho data do tl necessary to as ascertain ascertain certain ni the tho cost coat of the tIme entire proposed elt Immense scheme wilt wi be borne brno by b the Interior Then with w th tho lie collected farts facts figures and maps time the department will lay Iny the tho situation ho be before fore the people wi of or Utah and ask ak their united support of ot tho the scheme to rout rejuvenate reu enate the tho state Mr ln view of or the tho enormous benefits to urges unes lint the citizens especially of ot the time Immense section to tobe tobe tobe be thus give their united sup tup support port to the tho lie government o Ice 11 Ho lie rays pays ho he explained to tIme the secretary that ns as one Ole tract of land In I was WA re ro reclaimed reo claimed la loon It would begin paying back to the tue government then lien thoro hare would bo be b a n second tract repaying arid and then timen another er and amid to 0 on until the time whole watershed was paying In back tho time government tho the thoron pi water to H advanced In Iii bringing It ron At the tho he sumo saute Blunt time remarked Mr It A tm If tho time people do not nol want to avail themselves I of pf the information anti and Ill aid offered by the tho government why there Is la nothing to compel them to todo todo todo do BO so While nt at Washington Mr Ir Richards and Mr Doremus made maee Ua ita I I point to explain to tho the secretary how moro mOl de do deserving serving of or his special attention a lenton was Wil tho lie scheme cherne to reclaim acres of ot land anti correspondingly the tIme population population lation of or this thin state than titan to ignore tIlls this laton for tor smaller I er projects scattered over a 1 wide lma area of or territory In ii other states Secretary Hitchcock said lit lie hI fully tuly ap op appreciated this and ammil agreed that tho the Utah proposition was waa WI one of ot tIme the great greatest est et at of ot the kind over ever cv r brought up 1 before tho the attention of the tho government In fact the secretory secretary rather considered It ItIn I Itin In time the mao ame class of ot Improvements ns ma the hio great English dam across the Nile Nie J at nt A antI and tho the extensive lve Irrigation tion plants In India lon Mr Richards Is l that tho the goy gov gos will give Rive such uchi nn an td th tho thu Utah wi scheme that It wi will bo ho 10 event eventually pushed through to completion In laly fact act ho lie U is II enthusiastic In his hopes hops of ot early h realization of ot the great project |