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Show Published Every 8aturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO. INC. FRANK E. 8CHEF8KI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: gliding postage In the United 8tates Canada and Mexico, fz.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Poetal hr six months. BY 4J0 per year. ... Payments should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-elae- e matter, Juno 21, 1919, at the postoffle at Salt Lake; City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. r Phone Wasatoh 9409 S11-1&- 1S . Ness Bldg. , Salt Lake City, Utah SERIOUS FLOOD CONDITIONS Mississippi flood control is a problem which.the govern-tmu- st repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, and immediately work upon and the building of levees which law became effective May 12, 1925. not alone solve it. Past neglect of the watersheds in ollow-h- e The recent legislature repealed this act and according to the timber to be cut and leaving the bare hills at watersheds law as it stands now there is no law or 0 provision regulating bet-- , tes a large flow of water during a few hot days in the spring, ting on horse races. As we see it, any one can now give race n her and brush protects the snows from the hot suns rays, meets ; they need no permission and there is no state regulation m by melting gradually the water is sloughed off during a or supervision, and no law can be passed unless by special call id of probably two months. Where the sun shines directly of the legislature by the governor, or enactment provided for two the unprotected snow, it melts and runs off the hills in tor-si- n years hence. D a few days and is similar to a cloudburst and the beds William P. Kyne, present manager of the racing at the rivers not to flow are water hold extra of the large enough 3 state fair track, has decided to give a test meet on the Lagoon in ting flooding the entire surrounding country. track next Tuesday afternoon, and it will be up to the courts to The out sent g matter much agricultural department has render a decision. watersheds and their proper protection, but talk is According to present plans, a short meeting is to be held on tall there has been to it. the Lagoon track next fall, and a string of fast Canadian horses As the timber area in the Mississippi area is decreased, so and other eastern horses, which never run on half mile tracks, D the flood conditions increase, especially in years when much are awaiting the Lagoon decision, and if favorable, the people falls in the hills. will be treated to even better racing than has been seen on the Mature has when-ma- n to conditions and certain prevail provided state fair half mile track. Mr. Kyne said that he never saw; changes these conditions he is made to suffer. The man better sport on a half mile track than has been seen here this builds a flimsy house in a tornado district, has a house to spring and the followers of the sport are all pleased with the after every storm. The man who timber all the strips th from the hills turns the territory into a desert unless meeting. lawful to hold races at Lagoon, a big meeting If it (is much rain, and if there are heavy snows they turn into will be proves r and come given there next fall, so as to close the state fair here, and down in a hurry, leaving the hills barer than switch the races from Lagoon to the fair grounds, which would be the chief sporting attraction at the state fair. The present flood in the Mississippi basin is the greatest in Mr. Kyne has been greatly complimented by Utah people ustory. We have had as much moisture in the hills during k years, but forest protection perfectly controlled the flood for his able management and clean racing given to the people. k Now there is little forest control and the people are pay-M-y COLORADO AFTER UINTAH. with their property, and many with their lives, tor forests are the natural and best water storage reserThis city has paid so little attention to the Uintah basin that ve have. not only protect the snowr and ice in the They tot in the natural process the watei is kept pure and fit for many business men of Colorado are of the opiniontothat the entire Colorado. It basin should be detached from Utah and added consumption. to we have no further use for the basin, why aggressive tree planting campaign in the watersheds of is a good idea. If Mississippi will keep it? Business men of Colorado are getting nearly all of the bring ultimate relief to the people. trade, yet we hold possession in name only. Some day the northeastern part of this state will become a HORSE RACING IN AIR. great business center. It is a fertile country and is rich in hydro torse and there is enough asphaltum there to pave racing has proved a huge success during the present carbons, minerals, and all indications point to a great oil field. Colo'g meeting, which meet comes to a close next Monday aftcr- - the entire state, rado is gradually developing this basin through trade and the Redd J the state fair the On that track. day grounds is killed Moffat tunnel will help our neighbor immensely. There is more law race The recent act of the legislature. by water in that part of the state than in all of the remainder of the Merely repealed and no substitute law was passed, which f me , racing without any state jurisdiction, and as a result state. ah Just why the Uintah basin has received so little attention Racing and Agricultural association, together "with the from Utah people is because they have been waiting for some one commission, becomes a matter of history. e an else to develop the resources there. The developers will take for by was . stote horse commission provided racing all the cream and we will get the skim milk and we are not even; ,nS to horse racing, and providing for the creation of a to that unless we get busy. Colorado has a covetous eye entitled and duties racing commission and and its povers defining The e re-in- I . . . |