| Show TARS ON 1 sever A interviews wilh with dilates DI eates from eastern utah ALL FAVOR government AID judge jara jacob 11 johndon ane nl nhen olve I 1 skir ideas id on the arid I X and bixl ixl question meitlon one hundred adelel delegate zate attending the state irrigation convention at salt L lake city lat week r ore naked asked this question by an evening telegram i reporter what do you consider the beet best means of obtaining federal aid for utah irrigation work T the lie consensus of opinion ton upon the question of federal aid in the furtherance of fril gation work in utah and the west as shown by the interviews of representative men from every abc tiou of tho balte Is that the people of the west went are justly entitled to receive assistance from the net national ional government to this oud ud below are several interviews with delegates from the eastern utah country judeo jacob johnson while the theory of federal aid in this respect Is not a it new cue one I 1 have given the mut mitt ter no cur aul study I 1 will say sty however that there are many sections sect fons of the cou country otry that aro are entitled to reboh e government aid ald as a matter of public welfare down in grand county there are more than acree acres of land laud as ag good us tie any in the state that Is absolutely barren beci tuse it has no water by the side there la Is it large stream that could be used to irrigate this land but the pro proc ceat esit of placing the water on this land Is tw tv lican y for private enterprise to undertake it would require only or 1 I to make the section equal to tonny any in the we west it for fertility the cevelo development of such districts as tills this gilld ao id benefit not only the state but the cation nation and I 1 think there Is no doubt but that the government Norn ment should lend its aid in tre the furtherance of such plans william oneill uintah county le without appropriation can dolittle do dollt little tle towards increasing tho water supply of the state tho irrigation of the abild states should IQ be presented to con congress gross in such a way wily as its to colv convince ince the that liberal appropriations for the building of reservoirs Is a paying proposition an in our count country ry the forest reserve concerns us most vitally A farmer in uintah county la Is not allowed to dig a hola to fence his farin until be lie has secured rion of tile forest reserve boffl edicer cc r and und tills this Is practically prohibitive geor george e B billings utunah county t V 1 me we have some some fin alne e sita sita 9 for reservoirs and aud plenty surplus water to supply them we need la is go governmental ern mental aid in constructing them I 1 there are thousands of act acre i 3 of land in our country count ry now almost valueless ples which could be brought to cultivation if reservoirs were sere built the sheep question Is also troubling tho the formers of our section the convention should attle to secure legislation tn tf prevent the ruination of our HP miller grand county the people of our st section favor faor appropriations made by the government to ald id each laige ird irrigation aaion system stem which cannot be boutil outil without finout this aid there aro over one million acres of arid land in grand and nd emery counties that could be reclaimed if the government bould would appropriator the tho money necessary news sury to spread the tile water oa 0 the grand river over it by menus of ditches dit chea we wo have plenty of in grand county but cannot utilize it william howard emery county the difficulty dini culty in the way of seeming ing legislation in the Int interest erett of irrigation for or the ho west lies in the fact that the people of the east d do not dundei folind the need of the pool ie le of this region if a it str string mg orvaul valon ie to throughout the wept west I 1 think we wac can change the sentiment of the east by nequa acquainting inting thorn them with inith the true conditions obtaining hero here |
