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Show I HOW TO MEASURE THE STREAMS The University of Utah, in order to encourage the measurement of streams, and to assist in teaching farmers and others who are Interested in the use and distribution of wafer, bow to measure it, has Issued a bul letln on 'Measurement of Plowing 8treams, " which is being distributed ;i fre Richard R Lyman, author of the bulletin. In an introductory, savs k 51 "The value of our Irrigated farms and of the water used upon them, also of the products they produce, is meat ured in numbers of so manv figures in . o that these numbers could hardlyVmean anything, if I had them to give Water is the Intrinsic thine that makes these great values yet we handle It. we divert di-vert It. we use it. we waste It, In a most careless and extravagant fashion. fash-ion. "Water, in the west, represents money counted In untold millions If a banker were to handle cash of one-one one-one thousandth part of this value without keeping and without making records of what passes through his hands, that banker would find him self very quickly in the clutches of the law It will finally become as Im portant to know and to keep a record of the amount of water that flows In a stream to know to whom this water belongs and to whom and in what quantities it is distributed, as it Is to i keep a record of the amount of gold a mine produces, the amount of cash a j bank handleB. to whom this wealth belongs, and how. to whom, and In what quantities it Is distributed ' The bulletin has been prepared with the expectation that it will as-slst as-slst the farmers, and others in th' state who own water, to measure this water in an accurate way. |