| Show THE TUB IRRIGATION CONGRESS SALT L LAKE KB CITY Aug 28 23 1894 Ed E ii for tor Deseret News Tour Your abl able editorial in the NEWS NEW of the overlooks overlook the advantages of having reps rp n at the Denver Congress to represent Utah to discuss the very ers you you ou speak peak of ot Mere ere Ie nothing in the address addres to the theP P bp e a lo to contravene your ideas Ideal quite t he contrary In fact there has 88 never at ata a ally J time such a t thing thine been thought of regarding the cession of the arid or national lands until antil all these questions have hae been Wed settled and which the nation luau Ja te to bear the expense of If U you yoa will consult the address addres of the Commission eion to the people you will see that that the questions 5 to Inclusive 8 Inclusive involve q matters atter of really more more import vort than 5 alone since Ince the enabling act really gives girss WI us an all the arable land existing within the Territory to Utah as a State Cordially admitting that this thiB is a mat mat- matter matter matter ter to be carefully that it will taka five Ave or more years year to bring about a result It there la is the strongest reason re on that Utah at the coming Congress should be pre by the very strongest men w can send and a any y n neglect lect to do so W ka e be a disgrace 9 SO Tl Will you kindly suggest any better way of doing this thia for tOI Utah Today this thi Territory has ha a prestige second cond to none and its it representatives will be to at Denver as 9 no others will and now the object ob ot ot of the Commission Commis- Commis sion ion Is i to get e t as many delegates to go gothere gothere there as possible without any regard to their views except except as they represent the best for Utah On the eve ere of becoming a State there is il all the more reason rea on why she he should hould be heard We ask a k you U and your paper to request the people to send delegates and answer a few statistical questions Very truly yours your C O L STEVENSON Secretary The NEWS Is ii very Tory pl pleased ased to publish the foregoing letter one good lood reason being that Col Stevenson appears appear to have imbibed the Idea ss idea have hare others from whom we have hare lately heard that heard this thiB paper was wax rattier rather opposed to the Irrigation Congress at was Wal inclined to throw cold water upon the endeavor to have hare proper representation there for Utah That this thia is 18 i a huge bilge mistake and the exact opposite of ot the NEWS'S wl will I be clear olear we think to every one ODe who will read carefully the editorial re- re referred re tarred to which appeared in our daily issue of at the Col Stevenson Stevenson's remarks remark about Utah's prestige pre tige in mat ten mat tere of ot irrigation are most mo t sincerely believed by the NEws they were in fact given in n substance and almost In identical language in the lobe very article which he be says ay overlooks the ad ad- ad advantages ad vantages of having representatives at atthe atthe the Denver Congress We over over- overlooked overlooked looked none of at the advantages advantage but on the contrary urged thew ther upon public attention and It if anything more In that line Une IS r needed we are ready here bere and aDd now to lIe assert and re emphasize re the high and Imperative duty of this thiM thi Territory to be fully lully and ably represented in the deliberations deliberation of that body In an address addres to the people of Utah concerning the Third National Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation gation Congress which is 18 to convene In the Broadw Broadway Broad way y Theater Den Den- Denver Denver ver er September 8 the members of at the Irrigation Commission for tor the Terri Territory tory make a stong plea or or the earnestness the Interest and the assistance of ot public spirited Utah citizens This consists of at Wm H Rowe Bowe who Is 1 the be ha Utah memo mem- member member ber of at the national executive commit commit- committee committee tee e S B Fortier Of Logan L W lift of at Ogden L Holbrook of or Provo and C E of Salt Lake City with C L Stevenson aa as secretary secretary- well-known well and representative men all of them and energetic for the ad- ad advancement advancement ad advancement of at the community Their address refers reters to the official oa call for tor forthe forthe the Denver Congress and gives give the basis balls o of representation They explain the duties of the commissions ap- ap appointed appointed ap appointed pointed for tor the various arid or semi semi- semiarid arld arid states and territories and the valuable Information that may be expected from the reports of these seventeen bodies we believe li is the number Dumber of at them that will report at Denver Attention Is ii Invited to the magnitude of the arid land problem and It its ito solution in which connection occurs this strong trong statement The country has baa millions million of unemployed unemployed unemployed men the arid west we t has hal millions ot of unemployed acres To transfer un- un unemployed unemployed un unemployed employed men to surplus land is ii the goat t problem W 94 mu t 0 be m mat and IJ 4 which the Third Irrigation Cona consider Utah ought to be able to a her share hare of the advantages advantage whisk which wiel- wiel come to th the arid west when fi 11 finally tM method is adopted which will construction con and proper M- M 1 the irrigation works necessary to the now useless land to receive the lions llona who are crying crying for homes home T The e address addre then urges public t eat In the appointment appointment of a Il 4 number and the right kind of man meR m delegates to the Denver mer meets men Umen of at experience in colonization sue colonization work and who have baY t i general welfare at heart beart and aDd h- h hI ft-bi ft H t I eludes with an urgent t- t f tw ia speedy answer to a list lilt of eight CJ 44 Q t tion together with such uch advice and aad counsel elal as a the co ent may be able to JIve give The lee I inquiries is 18 ai as follows follow l a 1st lat Give name and address rn r 2nd From Prom what stream or soune the water within your district or supplied applied L 3rd ard Is la the water of ot this thie source fly utilized and if not what proportion to waste during the winter season or 01 h many months month of the year Is ia the wwi wwi- not used for Irrigation About what what area of landSI land landa ie A along th the stream which can oan be ir irand AM and are not The he first Irrigation Salt Lake City in 1891 decided th tha o best results for the reclamation arid lands landa would be secured by t cession of such public lands landa to the he at and the control and sale Bale ale thereof be by that state Do you favor any change policy policy decided upon at the he th Salt Congress Congre 8 of 1891 and endorsed b I Legislature of Utah It If so se o In particular or manner manner u The platform of the Irrigation Ce Co r held at Los Loa Angeles Angelea in 1898 OIL several everal departures departure from existing We submit these inquiries in thereto t j First The Irrigation Congress deola a We We declare that water in n D at channels and bed beds is ia public pro prod and when under the law of any s 8 ai vested rights have been secured th hou such rights like all other property may be supervised ed for eat setie dal purposes and be condemned condemned- ibI pu public bUc use under the exercise oft of tad U power of eminent domain n u it n J Do you favor the principle of faa cissa existing water rights righta f- f The Los Angeles platform d We declare that all streams rising ri iW state and do flowing wing by natural oo 00 through h one or more states must be and equally divided under uDder oral authority i Do you favor the division of oft t t water among appropriators by eta the general government rather officers rs t t t 41 Third The Los Angeles 4 4 We clares We favor tavor the limitation ot c a amount 1 amount of land that may be tak lak settlers under systems of irrig forty acres and predict tha that in the it will be found desirable to redo amount still further and we restriction of the privilege of taki the public lands to citizens of the V U States Does the limitation of land ate to forty acres meet your approval Now most malt of these are questions and some lome of them should be answered too glibly or u saki consideration The time time- time how vet vet- dt short bort hi in which the part of t preparatory to the meeting o ef Congress must mUll be t tet Jt bg tU M e tilt h tf W ta 1 x I tee e duty doty of ot every influential citi- citi o give live encouragement to the theor r or- or the First Presidency of or the oh cb ch issued four days ago the fol- fol g letter to the Presidents President of and Bishops of ot Ward Wards e subject to which the Hon HOD W H e and his associates as the for lor Utah of 01 the National ton tion Congress which meets at ater er der September 3 8 1894 calls your lotion is one of great importance if our oar Territory and people The oration matlon asked for is needed to have Territory and its agricultural inter- inter appear in their proper light before Nation Dation and especially the neighbor- neighbor so and territories and moreover as aaa a State Utah shall become a potent poten t I in framing the pu public bUo Irrigation Tation of 01 the future We therefore this method of calling your atten- atten atten tI b to to these requests and take the they Y II y of emphasizing what the com com- comon com com-Blon on on have said that our influence be 10 joined to theirs in impressing pu JM with the importance ot of giving them j Idlest f aid and information and that that that-S at once Very respectfully your brethren WILFORD WOODRUFF GEORGE Q CANNON Jc Yom v JOSEPH F SMITH r l li hiis lull full t ent statement of the w s t moods of the local Commission i fi aims alma of the forthcoming Con Con- Con HA Denver the NEWS feels once to b add its own appeal for ter r J tb and public spirit on 00 ref f iIii Na lait of the proper officials and the theto generally to the end that this Territory may be worthily ar and her ber prestige I in n every way t and increased sed In saying i ell m may we again venture to to- to 0 Without danger of ot being regarded of the Congress that we J fe llo 78 yet T t ready to pledge the TerriE Terri Terri- r f r E Utah to the affirmative ot of t the e D on of ot the Use cession of ot the arid and |
