Show FARMERS ift mir aks UNITE TJ M ITE TO HURRY HURK TZ I 1 I 1 r ACTION ur X i f ON u I 1 k T GETTING GE T TING WATER r ivena in a telephone coners conversation atlon with the local committee the officers of the price river 1 leation com comply pay that they arc aro holding t a in today to find where they are at and will ineat the local farmers at an earla dalo date in this city to get united a action tion by tho the shareholders under the price riter iril aaion especially atosa who are actually farming and aro are now seeing their valuable ible crops burn up for aorl I 1 ick tek of gatei was te vie object of a meeting of SO 0 farmers under the ditch yesterday afternoon tho the discussion resulted in the naming of carl gunderson E M sumner and chris jensen as a committee to bet let tho the directors of the company to meet the farmers in price at an early date or if unsuccessful in that to so go to salt lake to talk affairs over with the directors to find out the status of the matter and what can jan bo be done to hurry the beginning of construction work A resolution was vias also adopt ed calling on the directors to turn over all the holdings of the company to the state in a friendly suit so that tho ties will ho be wiped out and the property can be sold clear to others or improved by the state the meeting WAS held in the city hall and everyone present manifested the deepest interest for to many nf them it means the losing of their savings of years and the failure of crops another year unless the dam is built so that there will b bs water several who had planned heavy hea vy payments on their obligations this fall out of fine one crops must now sll sit idly by and an 1 watch the grain hay aid spuds burn up inthe in the withering sun with no resource reco and they will barely have enough to feed themselves and teams this winter if they can meet interest payments and extend their note they will be lucky 11 G mathis aa was chosen chairman of tho wo meeting and benton randolph secretary chris jensen hai bad just re turn 1 1 from salt lake where he saw tl tj directors of the and also two members of the state land board he ile told the gathering n g thit the offic era ers were willing to turn the project over lo 10 0 o the shareholders Bhart sharL holders if they could handle it this was objected to on the ground that a re ion of the company would leave the w ty y open if the railroad brines brings suit for damages di d images mages for the company corn piny to hae bae judgment of many hundred thou suid it which would bankrupt everybody itis claimed that if the state forecloses in friendly suit and rf riF sells the property or handled handles it tb abi vill ill be wiped out still others say that the state will not take the property over until it la Is known what the rio grinde is going to do and what claim it can establish that those present at the ghetu ta eting are the real ones interested in the matter and that their desires should be iven full weight and oot not the wishes of speculators who bold hold undeveloped land or shares without land was the unanimous opinion that something must be done aid done soon is not questioned if the rights and needs of the farmers are given consideration many expressed a wish that tha the pleasant valley project broj act be carried out oat but it was admitted that there could be no hope of getting grovern ment action soon enough to have a a dam there for water within the next few years and the building rebuilding re of the mammoth is Impe imperative to save ahn th 3 farmers another tiling t ing that was pointed out is that tho the humes aro are rotten if i they hid bid b id not broken so often just after the dam break anh water could havo have been put on the V fino fi no ma to have saved much of the crops tho the flumes will not hold another year and heavy esperie io must be put on them the company compan was severely criticized criticised for letting the flumes got into such condition that they were the cause ause of 0 much of the mcgast losses vic failers aro are fully aroused to their needs and the people of price to whom the prosperity of these farmers me meins ini i n much are with them in their efforts and somo sonic action will bo be secured soon or mattera matters will ill bo be 4 brought to a point where government and state protection will be demanded A |