| Show ak JUAN PROTEST PROPOSED nuin 1 1 QUI quirk re IN 4 o 0 tho auito akiu of biml 1 V inclined to sll sido etli amali alie alf lr dr l I 1 litt antt vb in ni utah ir ahr town of f olo an important question that may lawuance lalu ance to a large extent the re ola ela matlon mation ut detate lande lands under carey act withdrawal withdrawals in tho the future was presented to the state jand land board tho the other lay day by J 11 peterson president dout of the san juan county protective nuo association clation in the form of a letter protesting A v of at lands in that county for reclamation by the dolores irrigation company peter eon contends that the land la nd desired embr ra braces acee thousand thousands of acres of the bout boot dry farm grain 1 land in the west and ind bo lie de declarck clarce that to place it under und er irrigation and charge cha tto settlers for the ater rights would work a useless hardship upon them it la Is pointed out clearly that the land can be made to produce better c crop D 9 under dry farming ineth dethora tho ahau an obtain andor irrigation with ita its great coet cost to the far farmer there examples K in other are cited wherein lt it la is shown that settlers upon bantle 1 that have been withdrawn under the carey act for reclamation ree have been forced to abandon their lands lantis because of the coat cost assessed a against them for water rights while prior to the reclamation they were making a profitable living from the lana land la na by dry fanning farming members of the land board are inclined to take sadeq with the san ban juan and they believe the conten concentin cont entin tir aa right in some re poets the kaiue igue it IL ie is nala 1 might be malsed ir many parti parts of the state since the 1 mont ment of dry farming methods the superiority ty of san juan county lands for dry farming has been hem pointed out frequently by euch such exports as lewis A merrill the a defor company ha has an application Pt bufore the state land board for withdrawal withdraw tl at of about twenty thousand leres in 1 san sin juan juin county peterson and hie his protest Ir ag fast abe withdrawal of this land tor for reclamation and ask i that it bo be designated for homestead entry instead |
