Show THINKS IAH hk J SALT LAKE L say says the pioneer ra bullied men 11 development of ot project projects in southern atall dangers dauger of over ir the people of utah have ce certainly better than they know said general manager 11 C nutt of the salt lake route in an interview in salt lake this week As you are probably aware a man who takes r tho the operation ot of a railroad la 15 mighty busy durin durent tho the first montha months of new association in getting bla his bearing bearings I 1 came to the salt lak route with little baesl sie of the bertlon ot of the co country antry through alch jour aur ralla rails ruu run and it Is I 1 only within tha arst few months that I 1 have bad had an opportunity port unity to extend my investigation t beyond our right of way now thiet I 1 have found time to look into the situation I 1 am firmly convinced of the great future batch lies ahead of your state utah possesses first of all ell attic conditions practically unequaled d by ana an other spot of tho the same albit altitude ude and latitude then allied to her climate Is a quilley of solla sells which I 1 have never been excelled for richness and fei fertility alliey the erosion of ages hag has placed upon the floors of her valleys deep strata of earth capable of producing the heaviest ot of crops and your topography has provided a series of water sheds capable of furnishing wonderful flowe ot of irrigation water with ales tor for a most practical distribution of this necessary and valuable adjunct to utah prosperity 1 I have just had bad an un opportunity to investigate the progress which Is being made along Irrig irrigation atlo a lines in the several counties of southwestern utah and the conditions as I 1 found them are particularly encouraging 1 I drove over thi tho vast areas at the southern end ot of the escalante calante Ee valley where it cuta cuts through iron coun 1 ty Y and finds its it limit against the rim im of the great basin in waihing washing ton on county I 1 fourd soils 80 rich that the giant sage would bide cattle cattie and extending over an area measured by hundreds of thousands ads ot of acres avill mill teem alth activity in the center of this rich area there haa has been laid out upwards ot of acres ot of land by the newcastle reclamation company which is e developing water for these lands by means of a conservation in the pine fine valley mountain mountains then to too thie this water supply will be materially teri ally increased by waters from the already completed enterprise dam at the bead head of the valley this project mean means a vast and rapid increase in the pro verity of that portion of the and within but a few months every one of these thousands thou Bands of acres will teem with agricultural activity further north in beaver deaver county hundred hundreds of men and teams are working night and day upon the in monse dam which will conserve the waters of beaver deaver liver and bric about the development at 0 upwards of acres c G the richest hind kind of eoll between milford and allmers ville now this all looked magnificent fuai of promise but with even nn an copti optimistic mUtt veW aley one might be possessed 0 of a little atu b r aar not possible to travel a few milea miles northward into the great Pa livant valley of millard county and there thero see thousands of acres of the same class of soil which but twelve months ago were barren save a natural growth of sage but ia i day are producing bumper crops of r re e wheat oats barley corn and alfalfa here indeed under the ditches of the delta irrigation pro project Is to a real object lesson of what one year will accomplish where water Is d to the rich soils ot of utah the already on these tracts near delia delta and with those which will rapidly follow upwards of acres will be added to the areas of millard county nor Is 13 this all for but a few miles north of this project still within the limits of the ime sime s count and taking its to water from the same sant 0 conservation system the 8 sevier eul river land and ater company compa te Is constructing a boyte m which starting at lynndal lynndyl Lynn Lys dyl extends south ward over an area of more thin aires ai res 1 I 1 have specially mentioned the acri acreage Lage of these immense projects in order to bring forward the corn com parison of what is acin done and what the future may do N ith the tile sum total of tase nese figures that I 1 have given only a patch of these great valleys arc are today promised a productive future the very first attention must be given to the causing of the valuable waters to perform their whole duty barning ax to bahr 1 I feel practically compelled to bound a warning on this subject of water duty this comes from my investigations of some older yet equally rich portions of the state in most of these more land has been ruined by over irrigation than has haa been developed by the right use of water the no agriculturist of df utah should know what Is bt best tor for his land the opportunity Is before him in the advantage advantages he possesses t through brough the experiments and research which Is constantly ally t ang tang made hy by the staff of your excellent agricultural at college in ill the early days we could r set at expect the pioneers to know then theme things for then irrigation wai was practically an AU Unk unknown novin quantity to an glo saxon americana americans but now it la all different aae anc I 1 was surprised to eee see the valuable and magnificent area areas which hae have even within the laet last few years been rendered unproductive and valueless by an over supply of water scientific research and practical experiments have settled the exact amount of water required upon different fere nt soils for different crops and tho the farmer who will not accept the facts as brought out by the efforts of splendid educational inta gutlon should be deprived of his ability to not only ruin his tits own tut possibly pos ably his neighbors lands I 1 consider that these people who ary are prone to over irrigation would realize that by scientific use of the water the irrigated area can la in every instance be doubled and trebled in this regard there comes the question of added acreage in contradistinction to an acreage depleted by souring and wa ter logging I 1 am pleased to soo see that most 0 the irrigation companies ore are re by contract the amount of water to be supplied and are holding down this supply by means of are eare tully funy protected gates and rigid ina inspection attig u addid pro prosperity to every irrigated section so governed ri verned I 1 i found at delta many farmers who had raised this year years crops with less than ore and one half acre P fat pet et vt of water one most successful rancher named skelton had a banner yield ot of cereals with five full daya days of water still due to make up his one and one half acre feet it thew those progressive men can raise chopi under these modern conditions condl tiona it Is plain that others can do likewise I 1 thia this point of water duty Is one that everyone pye interested in f iture should take a direct interest in looking still further ahead comes the question of what will bo done with the rema remainder luder of your tali val leys when the available supply of surface water has been properly distributed tri buted to do its utmost in your development I 1 will tell you where thi th next development will ill spring from and I 1 say spring without reservation for the next extension of your irrigated areas will come by bringing the supply of subterranean waters to the and causing them to add thousands of acres to the developed territory ry this la Is a condl don which has already faced the valleys of california and been successfully cess fully met so fully do I 1 believe in the practicability of a uso use of these subterranean waters that I 1 am now preparing plans for expert experiments men to on t ta a 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