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Show PUBLICATION" ON MUTUAL IRRIGATION COMPANIES OF UTAH AVAILABLE LOGAN Under cooperative agreement agree-ment between the U. S. Department and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Experi-ment Station there has just been released re-leased from the pre.-s a most valuable ! and interesting publication on "Mu- ! tual Irrigation Companies in Utah," written by W. A. Hutchins of the division di-vision of Agricultural Engineering, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Hutchins has made an extremely careful and intensive study of the growth and activities of the mutual irrigation companies of Utah. The history of irrigation in the state from the earliest tme of ts settlement to the present operation and management manage-ment of irrigation systems is clearly clear-ly and concisely stated by the author. au-thor. In the foreword (written by O. W. Israelsen in charge of Irrigation Irriga-tion and Drainage at the Experiment Station), the following statement is made : "The author's clear, concise, and unbiased statements of the results of these studies will doubtless be of intense interest to the older people of Utah those who early carried on the work begun by the pioneers. To the Utah irrigators of today, Mr. Hutchins discussion of the adaption of the mutual company of present conditons will prove both interesting and valuable. Directors of irrigation irriga-tion companies and water masters will find unusual value in becoming fully familiar with the activities of mutual companies as reported." Copies of this publication (Bulletin (Bullet-in No. 199) will be sent without charge by application to Publications Division, Utah Experiment Station, Logan, Utah. |