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Show DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU F. W. J. MEYERS, L. E. POTTER, President Via-Pratia- C. F. WAHLQU1ST, SccelaryTreasme, d V: of his field fourth times as much as he was to get the lower end also be neceswould It Tins three sec- rigated. entitled to have. water waste WATER IX UIXTAH to him by irfor to sary ond fed of water was intended on it, MOUNTAINS RECENTLY furnish a continuous flow fer two rigating part of his ground be not would It extent. some to was diverted but acres, ten hundied acres leaving one at all surprising if this farmer had During the recent sterms which onto bat forty acres without wat- - a collision with some of the other hundred evt uty In wa of such tremendous benefit to farmers who took his water. conditions did and occasionally happen range the agricultural use of tie three acre feet to fact this, 'v under the old system, to the Uintah Basin an added water one day oat of every live and Another evil of the continuous was stored on the watersheds fourth d ys he would not have been 'flow method was letting the water the share of the streams supplying irrigation run unattended for long periods of as well. This resulted in waterlog-- 1 e. tia acres one hundred seventy n.aini.n forest the from Ashley Reports w u(I haJ the same stream for ging areas of ground and caused Few office indicate that during the time ah j days with the waste of much water. at water their handled .farmers fully two feet of snow fell m but the t0 WJttr tIie;r ian(i ranger sta- -. vicinity of Trout t;ce was for the water user to night and a large part of the night t;.n bat precipitation measuremen. l e v;attr untll he was thru flow was wasted. At the Drj Gu c or U2rtii the aiich rider closed his was not ob'ained is The necessity fer regulation oth-tio- n can stat.:n on Lake Fork creeu., e this seen and to the ;rave regulation the and water easily gate 9000 feet, 22 inches was the e. ;andowne Perhaps about the best be secured by dividing the watthe stream er into; a number of heads and pre-- l rater user paring a schedule showing how these This would go Lack and epen up his head? are to be rotated. gate aaain and take water leaving schedule should show the total numthe mm who was reallv entitled to ber of acres served by each head, auu.oc axU He might 'the length of the rotation period, it with out anv water. ISi'.Eo to or rider :,ch ,l,o '1. project ea- - the time per acre and the time that snew in the higher elevations and m the course of time leach water users turn begins, gineer shortage of water this year has have the water res ored to him onThe size of these heads may be been practically overcome, is the ly to have ome ether water user varied to suit conditions and the opinion of those who are in a po- take it hef-r- e lie was through with peried of rotation may be as long sition to know of the conditions. it. On this lor as short as desired. There are sure to he added rain are to two and At beads in water from distribute the project storms at least in the high moun- a l empting without a schedule will pro- one-ha- lf second feet and the to four tains during the summer. duce the same results as an attempt period of rotation this year is sevto run a : umber of trains on thq en days and six hours. Last year it was nine days and eighteen hours san.f Hack without schedule. would result with loss of but many thought that this was too time. Io- - of property and collisions. long fer gardens and in compliance tl' farmer on the lower end of with their wishes the time was ;1;e !ater (1 had the water half way shortened. This has not been enthrough his corrugations when the tirely satisfactory for some think farmer above hint took it aw?y and that two weeks is better than one left h;n dry he would have lost all week. Taking the means of these 1110 nr e head of two it would seem that extremes !'Pert tiat by the continuous flow method. The the used last year (nine days period c i ndition for this most favorable ver the same ground in order and eighteen hours) was not far method would be when the duty was ir- ABDKD SUPPLY OF j one-supp- t i I ! one-four- th p-- 1( ; e" i I J i i I i Con-fuo'- on firm Wnfpy irilgdllUil , j lowest so vve from being the best period for the Basin. One objection to rotation that is frequently heard is that it requires The absurdity night irrigation. of this is apparent at once to ths man who thinks for the water cannot be stored at night but continues hours each to flow for twenty-fo- ur day and if it is not used twenty-fohours each day part cf it will One of the desirable be wasted. features of rotation is that it in- duces the water user to handle his bead of water all the time he has it. The schedules are so arranged that each turn begins six hoars later each time, thus . distributing night hours and Sundays impartially among the several water users. Perhaps the complaint most frequently heard is that rotation limits the amount of water that a farmer ioay have, which is true to thi3 extent: it limits erch water user to his share of the available water but it does not limit the amount of water that is avai'ible. That is limited by the amount flowing in the streams except for the short pnriod of high water when it is limited by the capacity of the ditch. Those who make this complaint are not in the thinking class or else they are also in- that class which, if they could get by with it would take something that belongs to someone else. Anyone who will but stop and think the matter over can easily see that the schedule merely provides for the equal distribution of the available water supply and he who takes more than his scheduled allowance is taking someone elses water for there is no other source of No honest thinking man supply. can conscientiously object to a schedule for the distribution of irrigation water. -- ur - will consider it when the flow is one second foot for each If a farmer had seventy acres. in acres he would be encrop seventy titled to a continuous stream of one '.V.-.i-u- 1 sec nd foot but if he had but tuny acres he could draw but four sevenths of a second foot or a nice Now no one would garden stream. to attempt irrigate with so small a :a stream for he could not do much with it but vvas.e water so tne usual practice, when the continuous fl v method was supposed to be in use, was for the water user to go to the headgate and take as large a stream as he desired, usually iu excess cf three second feet. Let us see what happened then. E He was entitled to of a second foot but he took three! second feet or twenty-on- e sevenths. Since there was not sufficient capacity in the ditch to supply moiv than no second foot for each seventy acres he was taking seventeen sev- -' oaths' second feet of water that was intended tor hind lying furthir down the canal. This land hingj lower down the canal would, of course, be without water as long as this water imer kept the three second feet. Other water users, especially those living near the upper end of the laterals, did the same and what was ostensibly a continu-- i ti otts flow method was in reality a n method of distribution hut without a schedule. These water users were enjoying one of the ad- -, vantages of rotation a larger head of water to work with. It nation without a schedule bus eertau advantages. at least for those wlo ere near the upper end of the laterals. We will follow this water user A-further. 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