Show CHANCE TO SECURE A DRAINAGE TEST government Is anxious to As Us in fighting alkali representative george M M her of emera county who n ade a bard and winning fight in the last legislature or the passage of the bill phereby eapen ments faill be conducted in under the direction of national experts tor the reclamation of swan py alkali land has succeeded la interesting tho depart n ent in en erv int a alkali swamp blots at the lite of the legis lature for drainage d roon strat son the brou prou se that a like amount would be expended by the nit onal government only a port on of these t vo funds is for the demonstrations i it being stood that public enterprise or the county or town governments will lend francial ass toward the drainage of the swampy land experiment ed upon the following letter to mr miller by hon G ell ott engineer in charge of drainage of the department of ture is self PAYSON utah july 20 1900 hon geo M miller huntington utah dear sir emer county is in great need of drainage a remedy for the in jury already dobo to her lands b seep age and alkali it is belier ved that no county in the state 13 more concerned in shirting stir ting and carrying out drainage plans and it is the purpose of those to whom is in trusted the location of drain age experiments provide 1 for by the last session of the legislature to do as much work of this kind as possible in portions of emedy county 1 trust that interested land owners and it practice tica ble the county board of commiss boners vill operate in the construction of drains in every possible way so that the work may be prosecuted with vigor mr bron drainage of this office in utah drainage in tiona will in a few days accod ganv me to huntington to assi t in the proposed work it is our purpose to lav out work where it can be arranged for with owners and st in the cob st ruction of the drains I 1 hope you will encourage landowners to isike i p this needed improvement and agne at which the graute of the situa tion deminds actual vork must he done it the lity of drain ige ig to be shown in emery coant yours very respectfully G engineer in charge of drainage |