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Show I Th Herold-Joum- ol frogrm Ctnftnnltrf Plontw Trenton History Spans Nearly 85 Edition Brochure Discusses Utah, Irrigation Drainage Problems There is a solution to the irrigation and drainage problem in .Utah consolidation of irrigation companies and drainage districts. This is the thesis of the Utah Agricultural Experiment stations latest bulletin, Management of Irrigation and Drainage distriEnterprises In Utah. The brochurs is available now for director. H. Dr. E. to Walker, bution, according by J. Howard Maughan, Soil Conservation Service, and Dr. Orson W. Israelwn, processor of irrigation and drainage at Utah State Agricultural college, the bulletin issue a plea to irrigator and company official to recognize the urgent need for improvement of existing practices. Iick and Shovel The scientist call the pattern of the dominant irrigation coin-- j pany organization in Utah today a hold-ovfrom pioneer pick and shovel" days. It consists of a large number of small companies which divert their irrigation water from a common source. In many areas this pattern Is neither suited to the management needs of today nor to the design, construction, and maintenance of modern facilities for water storage, diversion, and conveyance essential to efficient irrigation," the bulletin slates. The design and operation of modern drainage e the managesystems far ment offered In these small com- SARAH SIMMONDS Cache Pioneer Tells I t i ,) T !i U f ? 1 ? J. I i 4 1 r ; i N v: l Unde gallons is located just west of town. In recent years Trenton has become a center fur Turkey processing. with the location there of a plant operated by the Cache Valley Turkey Growets association. hj and his a Marine training youth S from uncle enlist Corps together f.nd y irrigation-compan- f v .( t t i s i . Cache Valley, through bold, z . - far-sighte- d pioneering, has emerged Electricity came to Cache Valley even before statehood came , jf'G .11 v my)ij if,y tJ -- 4 V: i V- iC .Z " s' 'ii VcV) rv W 74'a y 41 v v.i . to Utah. Gustave Lundberg and Christian Garff, operating a wood working shop on the Little Logan River, with some of their neighbors in 18S6 organized the Logan Light and Power Company. Free men cooperating together as individuals, they gave to Cache Valley its first electricity generated at night from the mill's water wheel after the mill machinery had beea shut down. k y drainage-activitie- VV - ' 1 V ,M t c.", V- ( , v f ysssvs .v " WV' vi r -: ? x Utah Pow er & Light Company, similarly an Vv. " Ks investor-owne- d company, is proud to generate power for Cache Valleys com s i .U' x 191- - munitics today. The company was organized in t 'hcn a unber of small pioneer electric companies were consolidated. And now in the true pioneer tradition, Utah Power & Light Company is looking forward to the decades ahead. It is in the Advantage saving If ssT, ' v The advantages would be real and specifically these, veiy according to the scientists: Economy in management and in handling of company business midst of a S6S million expansion program that will nearly double its electricity generating capacity by 1953. -- administration p0s.slbe saViiig of' wm o and toe conservation of soils. Tl:e bulletin notes alarming losses m wall r conveyance on the smaller tanuls losses as high as 30 per- cent mile In evaporation and costs $ I workable improvements. Although all companies in Utah eouid not consolidate, many operating npnder the following eoiul'-tion- s could: a common source ol supply; overlapping of irrigated areas; parallel canals and ditcher; areas too small for economical operation by one company; clearly defined water rights, Iteeoom from debts. affairs, :aV. ' of teeming growth. ami make recommendations for sound, I - j: Yes, Utah Power and Light Company will be ready low-cos- t electricity with for Cache Valleys forward sleeps in the future. Ability to make flexible use of irrigation facilities so both water-togge- d districts and arid areas can benefit. Unmoved pratices due to a,.- cumulated data from new nr Mi- ofls. Small companies cant alfm keep records which ate vaiu- ab.e as a basis for improvement. the services of technical men. in irrigation science j 1 Nebraska Farmers Have Dream Houses, Too well-train- Nebraska ani CI.KVKLAND, O. engineering. fumois have their dream houses! Gieiier financial capacity to -i asas Trotter, Virginia Yapp too, ob a. a funds needed for inereaM' and of rhlant professor housing waier supplies and for irrigation manrgetneni at the Univ ersity of and caainnge system improveexplained here. ments. Th-- ' ideal house, according to Some Obstacle the composite of a Nebraska sur- - i Despite (he obvious advantage a, vey taken by Miss Trotter, is a y structure. It has a glassed- mn.ior obstacles retard the needed -in For one thing, a porch, from five to seven consolidation. rooms, a sloping roof and a base- iaetv of confidence in the maleuui-izin- g ment. tl the advantages is evident. The irrigators fear It has one spare bedroom, they will he ' coat closet, separate dining unable to protect their water room, 8 driveway so located that rights and that it would be to establish a fair bas.s visitors can come in the back workroom. for the several different classes door, und a first-floof v atei rights and stock in tin companies. Bible In Pawn Larger companies fear thev may have to assume liabili.v for Paid deb's cl some of the weaker tunts. 47 Years, Bu (he scientists insist that debt BOSTON In 1901 a of existing companies could be nian who gave his name reduced to a minimum to make as Edward Scott pawned a richly-buiin- eopcolioation practical. Bible for $1 at the The difficulties could and Loan Co. in downtown should be overcome, the scientists Boston. feel. The existing inertia of Bible never redeemed the Seot fanners and companies is a grave bu for 47 years never missed thieat to continued producan interest payment, usually com- tivity of farm lands high and will beto the pawn shop personally. come more serious the ing Over the years the total pay- is allowed to continue. longer it I : ! cne-stor- at Cherished Interest wcll-dress- d' Col-!"er- ments amounted to $4.70. Tliret years ago Scott stopped coming. Hal her than put the Bible Ao Up fo Him DOVER. N. H. (UR) On his up lor public auction, an official of t fie loan company' bought it for 105th birthday, Paul DeRoy was! ?1 He plans to present it to Calh- - asked how many moie he expect- oltc Archbishop Richard J. Cush- - j ed to celebrate. I'll te.ll you later, I ' Sng of Boston, he replied, only God know." UTM3 POWER & LIGHT Home Ownership j -A TAX PAYING COMPANY r nZ ' at the Charles Rolling recraft enlisted ? could look after" Buford A ing, his nephew. triumphantly from an untamed wilderness into a verdant valley f. present-da- ; A VU..W Duplication Unnecessary duplication of irrigation company and drainage district organization in Utah has developed an undesirable competition among water users and landow'ners and uneconomical procedures in management. The inertia in Utah irrigation and drainage agencies is extraordinary." the brochure comments. "The tendency to continue the present organization pattern results largely from inability of individual leadership in the several communities to convince minorities of stockholders that pies-cnoiganization is unsatisfactory." The scientist recommend f hat public agencies assemble specific and reliable information concerning : ' t sieoagc). gland-childre- sep-er- , ct for1 VW' A pr born. She has been a Relief Society teacher for sixteen years. She is the mother of ten children; six survive. She has twenty-tw- o and six and this district, 22.-00- possible to develop intensive farm ing m the Trenton area and today Prisoners Go or the chief crops me 'lalfa, peas, grain and sugar beets. BOSTON State . Dairy farming ais, piays an im- who paint portrait ndu 5 portant part in the towns econo- to escape their fru, my. A considerable number of t. cardboard for farmers living in Trenton, also scrap tinted machine oil engage in dry farming. Tt union's culinary water supply is taken from springs northGoes Ak west of Clarkston through about ng six mil's of flow line. A storage PARRIS ISLAND reservoir with a capacity of 25u.-(- tit? mm Recent studies at the Utah station demonstrate graphically the need for improvement. The productive capacity of the I.IHS).(KK) acres now irrigated in the 17 western states may have been reduced as much as twenty percent by waterlogging, salinity, and alkali. Ixisses in crop production from ihese causes may exceed $100,000,000 annually. In Utah drainage problems are similarly acute, though perhaps not as impressive, as the problem in the entire west. s, r, ran through level of the fanning land and the cost of constructing a canal lor irrigation was prohibitive. In 1898 the West Cache Irrigation company was organized with Charles Wood, M. W. Butler, ParWilliam Bingham, ley Merrill, John Jorgensen, and Henry Ballard as officers'. A site for bring- ing water out of Bear River was located near the Bear River nar- rows several miles north of IV-s-- j ton and a canal, the largest in the valley, was constructed alter six years of work and at a cost of 0 half a million collars. About acres of land, in the Trenton area, south and east of Newton, around Amalga, and in the disti-were brought under ii igation. The West Cache canal made it IpnOKlIlHISOKl panies." : ! Lindsay and B. Y. Benson located here. Before this time the Me Combs family had located on the Bear River near the present site of Trenton in about 1SC9. (razing Land Before the first settlements were made, the Trenton area had been used as a grazing range for from Richmond and stockmen Smithfield. The main freight road from Coir. me to Montana, much travelled because of the brisk trade between Utah towns and the mining towns of Montana, also saw the passage of many a creaking freight wagons pulled by bull or mule teams as well as stage coaches drawn by horses or mules. The first house in Trenton was moved there riom Weston, Idaho. Parley Christensen, who once ran for president of the United States on the Labor ticket, was born in this house. The first settlers in Trenton found it easier to trade in Weston, Idaho than in Iargan, since Logan could be reached only by fording the Bear River at Reese ferry, near the present site of Benson. Until 1898 most cl the settlers of Trenton engaged only in dry Since the Bear River farming. was considerably lower than the out-dat- The Story of Her Life Mrs. Sarah Simmonds who still maintains her home in Cornish, can recall many incidents to our attention which should make us appreciate more the struggle of the people who settled our fruitful valley. Following is a brief life as sketch of Mrs. Simmond she related it I was born in Ogden June 17, 1874. My parents moved to Lewiston October 1875. I married A. C. I Simmonds February 5, 1896. moved to Cornish February 10, 1896. There were not any meeting houses at that time. They held meeting in the w'hite brick school at Cornish, and the red brick school house at Trenton. It was only one ward then, and they held meeting six month at each place, later it was divided. Ben Bingham was bishop then. they built one room meeting houses at each place. R. K. Butler was bishop of Cornish. Then the West Cache Canal was finished in 1907. There has been many changes since the water came. Many families made a living from dairying then, as now. But each family had to haul the milk to a place on Hear River, west of the Myron Wiser farm. The milk was received at the Skimmer", then it was all taken over near cove and made into butter and cheese. A statement of the milk received was issued the last, of each month. They paid half cash, and the other half had to be traded out at the store. In summer 1 was busy cooking for hired help, drying fruit for winter mostly raspberries, plumbs and apples, doing washing by haid, ironing with stove-ironand many other chores we have forgotten about these days. My husband operated a horsepower thresher, binder and header. It was necessary for us to maintain about thirty head of horses. Indians didn't bother us at this begging at time, but hoboes our doors, a dozen or "tore every day, were quite a nuisance." Mrs. Simmonds was always helping the sick, and assisting when babies were the district had come. Its history goes back to about 1872, at. which time the familes of Janies Hill, Joseph Wood, Stephen Malan, Joe Harmison, Sam Harmison, Noah The community of Trenton, located due west of Richmond in the center of the northern part of the valley, was incorporated as a town in 191!), with Charles Wood as the first mayor. Second mayor was J. Karl Anders. The third and present mayor of Trenton is W. Sam Holt, who has served in that office for the past three years. The town hoard consists of Julius P. Jensen, Lloyd Simmons. Joseph Kzola, and Donald L. Andrews. J. Karl Anders is clerk and treasurer. The approximately ."0 Inhabitants get along very well without police or jail. Trenton gdts it s name from Trenton, New Jersey, from which a number of the early settlers of - 0. Local Control |