Show I Quarterly Conference The Tho Th quarterly conference of tk t the c.- c. South Sonth Stake Slake waH li ti th this city Saturday 1 and Sund Sunday 1 A largo large attendance wag S pi present t tt t at at every session Pre President A. A H n Lund sec ini Apostle T lo of the charek f. f authorities were wore present some somo 6 ti timely r ic to thee the S lr ad p e eJ J 1 1 st i r i T f t i. i age ge reservoir built there not only for forthe forthe the benefit of Wyoming but for Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska brasla as well The Secretary has set aside for the Shoshone River Wyoming project and for the Pathfinder project on North Platte River to be partially expended for the benefit of Nebraska Thus about 15 per ver cent of the entire reclamation reclamation re re- re- re fund will be laid out In Wyoming Wyoming Wy Wy- oming although she has contributed only about 4 per cent of the fund Scenes along the Platte and the Shoshone Shoshone Sho- Sho shone canyon are among the wildest I r and most picturesque in America Second to Wyoming comes the territory territory terri tern tory of Arizona Alizona with the great Salt Rivet River project at nt an estimated cost of about four million dollars requiring upwards of ot 9 per cent of at the entire reclamation fund although Arizona has hag contributed less than 1 per cent It U Is stated by the engineers rs that the opportunities for water storage In Ari Arizona zona are tire next to Wyoming the best bestin in fn the arid West while tho the soil soU of that territory is not only extremely fertile and una lying at a moderate altitude but the climate Is semi al and under Careful cultivation ten or ev even n five acres acres' f will support a family Southern California to day with a similar soil soU and climate has hM thousands of prosperous pros prosperous little five and ten acre farms The IM third State In fn order of ot irrigation benefits In Montana which although lying far north has a I. I splendid water supply and likewise rich land Actual construction has been begun by the Government on the Yellowstone wh whore where r owing to the plentiful ul flow atwater of at water none of ot the embarrassing complications com corn of vested water rights exist exist exist ex ex- which have prevented work thus far on the tho upper Missouri River ther and andon andon andon on the Milk River Rier The funds allotted to Montana for the Huntley Lower Yellowstone and Milk River projects project amount to over ovel three million dollars rs I or nearly nine per cent of the fund which is in excess of the amount contributed contributed con by Montana The fourth State In fn order of benefits S Is Nevada contributing the least money to the fund but probably most I needing the benefits It was in fact through the dire wants of ot this State that the law jaw received Its inception being being being be be- ing first known as the Newlands bill bUl this' this unique plan of automatic apps being originated and introduced introduced Introduced Intro- Intro by Senator Newlands then a Representative In fn tho thE spring of ot 1901 Following Nevada come Idaho Washington Colorado Nebraska South Dakota Oregon North Dakota Oklahoma Utah Kansas and lastly New Mexico Throughout these States Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment surveyors and engineers are working upon upon many interesting projects pro pro- ro- ro where strong rivers rush down out of the mountains In fn time of at heavy spring floods but which will be Impounded impounded Im pounded behind great masonry dams to form storage lakes whence the water will later be diverted Into the irrigation irrigation irrigation gation canals and used for crops on the tho desert soils Thousands of prosperous homes will be the result when these thesey y works are completed and the great West which is to-day to In reality reamy but a ac c i sparsely settled community will be be- I t come come- come more rounded out and better belter bal bal- balanced balanced against the more populous Eastern Eastern East East- ern half halt of the tM country r J f North North Platte Plate t Rivet Rive PE C Near Government Dam Site i i Building Gov Government Dam Damin I in Nevada i if f r k As s a all l the money which is being expended ex expended In the construction of these Irrigation works Is to be paid back to th the Government by the settlers taking the land and to go into the reclamation reclamation reclamation tion fund the work of future construction construction con con- will proceed as fast as the repayments repayments repayments re re- re- re payments are made from the projects now under construction Possibly also when the first few completed irrigation pr projects shall have thoroughly demonstrated demon demon- d demon demonstrated mon themselves to be the successful experiments which they are proving Congress will not be averse to making a a. direct appropriation as a loan to the reclamation fund I A direct Congressional appropriation for such a loan is not believed to be beat beat at all beyond the bounds of accomplishment accomplishment some time In the future after as as- stated the systems now under construction shall have demonstrated themselves the themselves to bo be the successes ed d. d The present figure above noted of t for r Irrigation would have been looked upon as the dream of an impractical enthusiast at the time that the Irrigation bill t was being discussed In Congress less than four foul years ago The year ear before the passage of the act I the securing of a a- hundred million dolar dol dol- far ar appropriation would have been I dOl-I believed to be as likely a figure as five million to say nothing of thirty seven million |