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Show UNITY IS NECESSARY Irrigators of Utah Musi Get Together. GOVERNMENT AID IS READY Frederick H. Newell, Chief. Hydro-graplier Hydro-graplier of the U. S. Geological Survey, Conies to Salt Lake to Look Over the Field and See What May Be Done Here He Says the Work of Reclaiming Arid Lands Is to Bo Self-Sustalning. "If the people of Utah nre to profit hy the new Irrigation law, thej must get together and demonstrate to tho satisfaction of the Interior Depart ment thnt thei mean burlncss " This Is the fact that Piedirlck II Newell, chief hdrographcr of the United States Ocologl.ul Sunej wishes lo have deeply Impress. d on tho minds of the people Mr Newell Is the chief engineer under whose direct su- r. II. Newell. pervlslon the work of constructing res-ervolrs res-ervolrs In tho arid West under the new-law new-law Is to be done He Is In Salt Lake for a day ortvvo taking a general survey sur-vey of the Held nnd consulting with the men he has In the held In nil the States in which work Is to ha done He will go from here to Nuvudi on Tuesda. but will return sometime In August accompanied ac-companied by Prof. Olfford Plnchot, the chief of tho Department ot Totes-trj, Totes-trj, at which time thfy will make a complete tour of the State, accompanied accompan-ied by Congressman Sutherland Mr. Newell vvni nsked jesterday where the Government would begin the work of constructing reservoirs, what mone) the Department had to begin with, and what vmuld bo the proper courre for nny community to pursue In order to get Government aid for Irrigation. Irri-gation. SIX MILLIONS AVAILAHLE. "There la now between 53,000 000 nnd JGO00OO0 in the treasury available lor the prosecution or the work under the Irrigation law," wns tho ref)l. 'Of course you understand that this work or reclaiming the nrld lands of the West la to be pclf-sustalnlng. Hy that I mean that the money that Is expended ex-pended In the construction or reservoirs reser-voirs nnd tho opening up to settlement or what Is now nrld land Is to be returned re-turned to the treasury from the sdlo of the Government lands to settlers Tho basic Idea ot tho law li that by the conservation of the waters of tho streams nnd rivers that now c to waste large areas of fertile lands can be reclaimed: theso lands with the per-petual per-petual water right arc to he sold to settlers, not more than 1C0 acres to nny one man, nnd In this wny It Is expected ex-pected to get funds to carry on tho work Indefinitely. "As to when nnd where the work or constructing reservoirs will begin, thnt is n matter that rests with the pcoplo themselves And this Is n point that I wish to Imprtss upon the minds of tho people with all the rorce at my command The people who havo con.. Hiding rights In any stream or body of water, must get togethei , they must compromise their differences nnd bo ready to place the whole matter In tho hands of the general government or we will be able to do nothing' What 1 mean b this ls this; Say a number of people have settled along a certain stream and acquired rlghtH In the waters wa-ters of tho stream Our engineers conclude that by constructing a reservoir reser-voir and taking tho waters of tho stream, a very much larger area can be opened up nnd put under irrigation, and thnt this can be done without depriving de-priving any of the original owners of nny of tho water, that In foct they will have more water aftei tho rerervolr is built. In such a case as this these people peo-ple must form some sort of organisation organisa-tion nnd lellnnulsh their rights to the government. If they refuse to do this w can dn nothing." "Hut ruppopi the people refuse to relinquish re-linquish their rights nnd form such an organization'' ' GOVEUN.ME.NT IN NO IIUlUtY. 'Then nothing will he done Tho Oovernment Is In no hurry. It will not fnrco this nntter upon tho people against their will It v. Ill slj.iplj wilt till they nio rendy lo acevpt assistance; It maj bo 'en enrs and It may ho twenty, but Uncle Ham will wait until tho p-oplc nre ready. This will also determine where the fltst work will he done The Government doeyn t caro whelhr It Is lu I'tnh Nevada or some other State. The work will bo dono first where tho people nro leads for It end where the outlook Is for tho best returns Uy thnt I mean whera tha expenditure nf tho least amount of mones will result In the reclamation of the largest amount of land "This Is a business proposition, pure nnd Hlmple," Mr Newell said, burning to his subject ' Tho wlde-nwako business busi-ness man knows that If tho countiy nbout him Is soltled up with prosperous and lntellUent farmers his trade will bo better than if ho Is surrounded by nn nrld wnste Tho Commercial tlubn, the prngiesslve busiiieis man tho citizens whn aro Interested In the ive. fire ot their State, should take hold of the matter in a broad nnd comprehensive comprehen-sive spirit, and only In that way will good results be secured. HOW TO PROCEED "You ask me how tho people of any given lo.alltj pliould proceed to get Oovernment alt for Irrigation Plrst thes must get together nnd ndju.t their dm rences The (,ov eminent will do none of this ror them I'nele Sim will settle no lawsuits nnd he will not gel Into litigation lo build n icervolr tor onybod) A hen the people or nny community have n definite proposition to submit thc will Iln, the Department Depart-ment rend to listen The proposition will then be Invesllrite.l b the Government Gov-ernment engineers In the Held and a report nnd rc.ninmendntlonq sent to the Secrotir of tho Interior through Chnrle. T Wol.ott dlrcetor of the Geo-logical Geo-logical Surv.v A report will nlso be submitted b an Independent engineer of high standing The proposition will then bo passed upon bv tho Department, Depart-ment, nnd If It meets with offUlnl approval ap-proval the mono will be nppropriated and the work needed will le done. UTAH SPLENDID PIEI.D 'Take as a good example our own communlt nnd till. Is a problem I hnvc been studlng for the past thlr-tien thlr-tien jenrs I know of no pluce In tho United States that offers such a splendid splen-did field for the nppllcdtlnn or the Ir-rlgitlon Ir-rlgitlon Itw ns Utah nnd Silt Lake counties bj utilizing Utah lake nnd the streams thit How Into It An empire nf hnpp Industrious nnd prospei.ius people can bo established hire bj the application of sclentlll. principle, mil common senso to tho mltitlnn of this problem All lhe Government cin do ls to hold the standard up before the people, nnd llien wait for them to become be-come Intelligent enough and edu. nte.l well enough to take advantage, of their opportunities MILLIONS INVOLVED. This Is n piopo.ltlon Ihu would Involvo the expenditure ot several mil- lions of money The Government enn do tho work, but It will be n long time before the people would be lu n position posi-tion to swing such a lnrge enterpilse. It would Involve tho construction of a number of renervolr. In tho mountains above Provo. It would Involvo Iho dredging of Utah lul.o This would bo of gieat bonellt In two ways, in the first plate It vvnull redeem and throw open to v. ttlement a vast nrei of bottom bot-tom lands mound the lake, In the next place It would svvo lirge quantities of water. The area of tho Inl o ls now fo'gient thot more water 1. lost through evaporation than Is used for Irrigation The work would also In-olvo In-olvo the building of dko. iilong tho low portions of the lnko nnd the dredg-lug dredg-lug of tho mouth of tho Joulnn river. INHIbT ON UNITY. ' Salt Lake is deeply interested In this proportion n. It Is but a matter of a few jenrs till (ho city will lequlro tho waters of the Jllg Cottonwood, then It will be neeersary to supply the fanners who now use thnt water with waters from Ihc lake And bel. ro tho Government Govern-ment can do anything lu tho matter It will be necersary tor all tho peoplo who are Interested In tho wnteis or tho lake and the streams that How Into the lako to get together and submit n plan by which the work can bo dono without lltlsntlon or cinharassment 'The country Is very fortunate In having Oiarles T tAolcott In charge of this work. He Is the director of tho Oeolnglcal Survey and Secretary Hitchcock has turned all tho Irrigation work over to his department. lie is ono pi the foremost men of hi. day In this lino of work, nnd In addition lo this his prnctlcal knowledgo of constructive con-structive work In great. It Is largely through his Influence that Carnegie de-cleled de-cleled to build a HO.000,000 university In Washington " It Ih nlso due to Mr. Newell to say that he la the right man In the right place at this time. IIo is a native of Moss-ichuselts, I. a graduate as u mining mi-ning engineer nnd geoluglrt from the Mnssaehusetts Instltuto nf Technology, and has had a wide practical experience experi-ence In various pnrts of tho West. He Is active In a number of sclentlllc nsso-clatlons nsso-clatlons or tho country, has mi.lo a long and close study, of Irrigation In Iho West, Is In closo touch with tho powers at Washington, and Is the author au-thor of that Important work, "Irrigation "Irriga-tion In the United States" CONSIDEItINO MANY SCHEMES Mr. Newell was In consultation yes-terdsy yes-terdsy with Charles II. ntch whn will ho closely Identified with the Irrigation work under the new law. IIo is the directing engineer for tho Northwestern Northwest-ern art of tho eoiintry under the geological geo-logical survey, and will havo much to ray concerning tho locntloh of reservoir site. Prof. O. L bwenson of tho State Agricultural college, tho resjnt hydrogrnphcr under the (.eologicat survey, sur-vey, wns also a member of tho parly yesterday He lias made a sie.ial study of Irrigation In Utah for n number num-ber of yenis, and his Intlmnto knowledge knowl-edge of the local situation will be of gieat value at this lime. Tho gentle-men gentle-men hae under consideration the llenr river project, the proposition to turn the Grand river from Colondo Into Utah, nnd thus reclaim a vnst tract of land and tho Utah lako proposition outlined above. |