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Show 'DAUDE WOULD MAKE HASTE SLOWLY ON STATE CONTROL OF UNDERGROUND WATER BELIEVES DEEP ARTESIAN WELLS WILL ULTIMATELY BRING IN PERPETUAL WATER SUPPLY ADVISES STATE RESEARCH That deep artesian wells in the farmable areas of the Eticalante Valley Val-ley will be the solution to the question ques-tion of how to assure Milford valley a large supply of water for future years, is the belief of E. F. B. Daude, who lectured before about seventy people Wednesday evening at the high school auditorium. Mr. Daude, a geologist, spoke here as a specialist of 2G years' experience in his chosen work. A test well, the financing of which is being done by Los Angeles capital in the belief that deep reservoirs abound in southern Utah, will be drilled on the W. H. Smith property, six or eight miles southwest of Milford. Mil-ford. The well will go down two or three thousand feet, and Mr. Daude stated that geological indications point to the drilling being successful. A ge':"'rca and chemical survey of the southwest part of Utah opened open-ed Mr. Daude's remarks. He said that the work done here by Dr. White in 1927, under the auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey, had to do only with the study of surface waters, and that the report made could not be taken as any indication of the total water situation. He described de-scribed the land here as being peculiarly pecu-liarly situated for the southwest, in that we had a vast area here which was practically a hundred per cent free from alkaline salts. He said that it would grow fine crops of hardy vegetables. His research in this locality goes back to 1917, he said. He cited geological geo-logical situations, in New Zealand which he said were identical, and where he said deep artesian waters had been the means to solve water difficulties. He doubted the efficacy of placing the regulation of underground under-ground waters in the state of Utah in the hands of one man; but rather, he advocated the appropriation of a fund with which to take care of a period of extensive research by a committee of geologists or engineers. As to the deep well to be drilled, he said that he was content to risk his opinions on what the drill would show. He was questioned very much by his audience, and some time was spent by other people who took the floor and spoke, advancing contrary ideas. Chief among these was C. E. Haskell, who is strongly in favor ol underground water control. W. H. Smith espoused a non-regu latory policy for the time being, and asserted that state laws such as is now proposed in Utah were openly disregarded in New Mexico and a failure in Oregon. Among others who rose to ask questions on the probability of this valley containing sealed waters at great depth, or to advance ideas for or against underground water legislation, legis-lation, were W. S. Cates, Howard Gaspell, Leonard Bowen, Horace Palmer, Pal-mer, C. T. Martin, Les Williams, Gene Kirk, E. C. McGarry and C. C. Sloan. |
