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Show IRRIGATION C0NVENII3N ENDED. The convention of practical Irrigators has, after a four days' session, adjourned ad-journed to meet again on April Und next Ita labors have been of much lm-liortance lm-liortance In clearing the wa) for effective effect-ive work In the future The discussions have developed what Is needed In the way of Information and In delinlng the diversified and to some extent antagonistic antago-nistic Interests The action taken has been largely prellmlnai), ns was tn have been expected, nnd as was Indeed, necessary. ne-cessary. Vet some permanent work was done After two days' general talk the convention commended the Interior department de-partment a investigations, favored the control nf the watersheds b) the people peo-ple lesldlng on the llmv from them, declared de-clared tho paiamount Issue to he aid from the geneial government, favored the postponement of all water litigation litiga-tion until after the next legislative session ses-sion condemned the present policy of selling public land In forty-acre itacts on watersheds, asked a conference with W) amine on the Hear river flow; memorialized me-morialized Congress for the cession of the arid lands In Utah to the State, favored the forest reserves policy of the Government, endorsed the Ken lands i.i.i mneiii, c'uiiuiseu me -sew i,.uii bill In Congress, uh amended b) Representative Repre-sentative Sutherland nt Utah nnd acted on a Inige number of minor projioelttons submitted. Hut we consider that the most Important Impor-tant work done by the convention was the determination to make the body permanent. A committee was named tn take In band the task of framing u basis for the perpetuation of the congress con-gress That will be preclsel) what the Xtiitc needs in this matter, nnd it Is an example thnt will be followed b) Other Slates The great thing to be got at In the Irrigation question Is a full knowledge of the conditions that exist The data available, as Judge Johnson explained In his defense of the courts are often In such shape, by reason of various defects omissions nnd lack of official uuthentlilt), na tn be unavailable unavail-able as evidence In water litigation. All these facts should hecaietull) gath-eted gath-eted and put on record, ho thnt there ma) be a complete understanding nil around, hen the) are so collected nnd teioidcd, some curious facts will appear, ap-pear, aa to the relative use (and need of use) of water In various soils and In different parts of the ftate. In the course of these Investigations It will no doubt apjiear, us haa often been asserted b) experts that there Is a great waste ot water b) over-Irrigation. Hut whatever the facts may or may not show, the main point Is to collect and present them. Thnt the convention will see this done, we cannot doubt, for that will be Its chief work as it permanent perma-nent hod). That It has arranged to have this done through Its own perina-neno, perina-neno, la a good augury for the State. The convention declared, as stated above, for Governmental aid us the paiamount Issue Thla aid has a good start for uvallablllt) In the prompt paNige. by the United states benate )csteida) of the Irrigation bill that the arid State representative agreed on It haa been the tule that the benate moves slowly, el In this case it used the utmost dispatch. The hill seems to have been agreed tn without n division, di-vision, and without amendment. It Is a good beginning for excellent work. |
