Show irrigation nothing new evidence of ase use ages ago irrigation Is nothing new in the southwestern united states there are evidences of a race of people before the mexicans who used irrigation their ditches evidence of which Is still to be found were built on the same lines that the engineers of today would use then lr ir the days of the gold rush to california in 19 49 water front from the streams was used to wash sold gold and later inter to irrigate gardens dens the mor mons went out about that time to utah and diverted some of the streams down the furrows furrowh of their fields the g gold nil seekers also carried the idea with them as they returned front from california lut but most credit for irrigation Is 13 given to the mormons cormons Mor mons in the early days irrigation irrl to pro vide moisture for liny hay mea meadows lows was as important ns as water for hur humans rians anil art animals alfalfa Is intimately related to irrigation irrigate Irrig ati on everywhere the monks brought this plant from spain in the early days the history of the small mail irrigation projects I 1 Is that they usually paid hut but the large ones ent through a lot of grief to in the nature 1 defeat 0 0 01 the large water projects giai own purpose till lill hadell ajo I 1 small projects t to 0 arl aag K meadows to supply produce P 0 for the requirements of the tie y iri t settlers were valuable marv pa palled the w schemes aversi arliet the an biart became a glut on real herald |