Show SHALL WE MAKE AN irrigation DISTRICT OF FIVER 9 this question ii Is ging kang to be asked every farmer and land owner along price rier if plan plans are worked out that were contemplated at a meeting of 0 about fitly farmer farmers held at the cou county ty courthouse oa on the thirtieth of december 1020 1929 there are a number of matters that would naturally lie be considered in contemplating tem plating an irrigation district first would it be a benefit to the country and who would be moet most benefited see would anybody have hae an injustice impend vion on him should an irrigation dietrict district be formed t tn ta brief the organization of an till asclon detract ct would mean that all the itri gabl landi lands in the district and all the water that was available to iari arri gate the ame same wout I 1 be taken over by the district ani the v ater distri distribute but cd ed equally to tha land the management ard distribution of the he water would be under one hen heal I 1 an ani I 1 the expenses fall equally upon all the land that was irrigated I 1 havi given this matter tons eon siler ter able thought since hearing tho tile lecture of ilon judge mow delivered at it price in the fore part of last eummer summer and I 1 will discuss it end gie my view as I 1 see them to the first question as to whether the country weald would be benefited there Is i no doubt but what every everone ne would answer in the affirmative as it would enable the land owners to bond fu fur suf af frelent mon 7 to impound water waters for ir purposes that boull enhance the value of their land four fold the legislature of the state of utah I 1 it law in 1909 thit th it male in ie this possible by utilizing tl e natural resource wo we an arl blessed with it would be a bu eia to not take advantage of this wise law that ie Is eo so applicable to the tile collit con lit ns that exist h I 1 ii our community the im mense amount of water that Is I 1 ramming down price river mery pring spring could be imperiled and furnish irrigation water nater for at least acre acres of land that at the tile preterit present time la Is only ottly 1 cing icing par i bially irrigated and acres more that at the prent pre pr eit nt timi thal Is not being irrigated at all there la to no place in thie this western country that ir land could be made more valuable thin in carbon county an I 1 who would be most benefi tell to this we might say ay we we are in dined to think the land owners them elves selves woul I 1 I 1 to e the gift at t beneficial ies as bealles adding alue to their lands it would cause nn an influx of farm en ers and the diversified farming thit would naturally follow would seimu late and would bo be of almost able isaac alac to the fanner farmers we now have who claim they cannot nake their f tins tr profitable ne e do nit consider there is i a farm or tract of land on price river that is free from the din yet ger of a shortage of water at certain t mea mes of the if our past expos ever ree its itself van the first canals were taken on out t of price river tron trum 1870 to 1883 those canal owner owners figured they would never need to worry about not having plenty of water but as time went on other canal canals were overe taken out and in ISSO the alier was drained dry on the fir t of july and people down the river were crying for v efer ter cun u for water was taken up at in as an water became scarce during the seasons until 1902 when it became necessary to take the matter into court ILI an I 1 have the of price river ad As a bails basis to decree mary water right it was allowed that all who had us usel waitr prior to 1890 should be given first elis cliss el is water vater right at the final decree of this lawsuit judge morse decreed to the leveral several canal c a n Is in ill existence at that time acre acres of primary water righta rights below castle gate aad and filid the duty of wa ter at sixty the fl we acres tf ti t i every second foot of water this would nike make about sixty two wo second feet of ater decreed to primary users there ha has been a number of seasons inee place then that abi th water went below thirty second feet in the river at the time this final de cree tree was given the If asmoth reservoir was in course of and anait it was decreed that 1600 acre feet of wa ten stored in ahli reservoir shoun be given to the prior water user users of price river whenever in the judge sat of the water commissioner it was betes sary and thus this reservoir proved a great benefit to th mhd water users of prie e river that had nothing to do with its construction would anyone uffer suffer iia injustice if all the lands of prie e river wee we e in eluded in one irrigation dIstri district ett f the only person who could imagine himself injured would be the person who has a water right and who feel feels that thal he has all that he wants and who feels that it would bo be an injustice for him to have to help develop waters for some one else if all the land that is covered at present by canals were placed under one irrigation district estimated at acres and in order to raise each sere ere would have to be bond ed d for 10 payable la in twenty years this would take 50 cents an acre sere each year add a little for interest on oa the bondi bonds and this woul I 1 be ample to bull buil I 1 the reservoir and make tuh suh ether nee net eskary improvements to maice make a first arat class right for every acre sere ot of land un baler ter the system and ia ta fact woold be a letter batir right the prior water users have at the present time as it would sufficient wa ws ten for all the season of tho year Pro islon could be made to campen sate the alo 10 per acre that would have to be met by those who have a prior rater water right at the present time so aho also coull could arrangement arrangements be made to compensate any others who hae lime wa ter right rights according to their value eo so no one could feel that they had to auf 8 fer any injustice but every land own er could fel feel that he was a belef benefactor ac tor to himself as well as u to the count country ry at large by lending leading hit his aid to form an irrigation district AN OLD TIMER |