Show NEED WEED OF WATER CONSERVATION The importance of conserving ing the water for irrigation is evidently evidently evi i dently apparent to all farmers inthis in inthis this community for for ve we frequently frequent frequent- ly hear it said that the only onh Y thing that prevents Sanpete r it i fr from m being tl the e greatest greate t agricultural agricultural f tural county in m America is the tJ limited supply of water That i this his supply cannot be greatly increased in in- i creased through the efforts of y man is self-evident self but much can cat be accomplished through 1 conservation This truth is again brought forcefully to our att attention atten attention atten- atten n- n tion in a letter from Prof Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard R. R L Lyman man announcing the theu u publication b by the University of Utah of a bulletin on U Measurement Measure Measure- Measurement ment of Flowing lowing Streams Streams-a aSim- aSim S mi m- m i h 3 pie pIc and Accurate Method ethod of Using Us- Us r V i ing 6 the V Weir cir He Tie says I tb r The v value lu of of our irrigated fi farms farms' and ana of 01 the water used upon upon up up- Y- Y tt on them also of the products t the they produce is measured in fi numbers of so man many figures t that at these hese numbers lUm could hardly mean mean anything if I had them to gl give re J Water S ater is the intrinsic thing tiling t that at N J. J makes these great values alucs yet Set 0 I wo we handle it it we divert ert it we c use it we waste it in a mo most moat t c careless and extravagant extra fashion Water Vater in the West Vest at least represents money counted in i Untold Un- Un un untold n- n i told millions If a banker hanker were w were re reto to handle cash of one thou one part of this value alue without keeping and without making tee rec records of what passes through his hands that bank bunker banker r would find himself very quickly in the I clutches of the law It will fin finally II ally become as us important t to 0 J know and keep a record of th the e amount of water that flows Hows in in ina a stream m to know to whom this thi s water belongs and to whom whole aid in what quantities it is distributed distributed h. h a ag it is to keep a record o of f l n the amount of gold a mine produces produces prof pro- pro f duces the amount of cash a d t bank handles to whom this t wealth belongs and how to whom l i acid l in what quantities it is d dis dis- sf s 's f r g oJ t This This bulletin has been r preP prepared ar e j Io ed ed with the expectation that i it t j t ilI assist the farmers and others oth- oth t l. l ers rs in the state who own water r e I to measure this water in an ac accurate ac- ac t. t t J curate It to 1 A way may serve e I. I F. F ty t them to begin keeping the t f important ant records just refer referred ed t 1 to This bulletin is sent out ut with f a the tho belief bellef that the new diagrams f 1 and the new tables which it pree pre pre- wilts e will ill give five gi more accurate and more more satisfactory results r I j than can be obtained b by any f ables or formulas previously de- de 1 d 11 The form of weir recommended I u l this bulletin has many advant advantages ag ages s not ilot the least of which is k f h fact bet that it is not necessary y 4 to brino bring the water to a practical 1 still still land still rand before the measure measure- measure measure-I i lL meat ent is taken When this weir of It l j s used therefore much less sed sediment if ent will be l deposited above it i r I iau above e other other weirs in gener- gener c c f al aJ u c. c The writer of the bull bullet bullet bullet- th t- t f h a- a Jin 1 believes b that in ill every ety respect t tr 1 and for fur all an practical pUll purposes the therIA ti y I weir proposed in ill this bulletin is rIA 1 the best I i 1 cIn ln order to to encourage encourage the this the i r 14 measurement of streams r r tv i Wd and to assist in teaching o g farmers farmers farm- farm ff j ers ers s and others who are interest interest- jf r r l e el en l in the use and distribution of t a t er I how lOW t to 0 measure it the tiC I ill tf c University of Utah is sending scatting n to i all p who Vh apply free copies of the l.- l. bulletin rr 1 |