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Show I ( WHAT IS WRONG WITH I ; WEBER COUNTY? j i Ogden's school population contin- III ues to increase at the rate of 200 to Ij 300 children a year, but the county I f ; district show a falling off in the past j j year. i Hunlsville, since 1915, has lost 12 1 1 1 ' and Eden 3. Ogden Valley should be increasing In population, but it Is not. Harrisvllle has lost 6, Kanesville 11, Marriott 3, North Ogden 2, Plain City 1G, Pleasant View 14, Roy 11, Slatervillo 20, West Weber 2, Warren 3 and West Warren 3. These decreases prove conclusively that Weber county's rural population Is falling off, and they point to the necessity of a survey of the county districts to determine the cause and apply a corrective. Not one-half of the soil of Weber county Is under cultivation. 'This is In part due to the fact that there are undrained tracts where the waterlogged waterlog-ged soil is unfit for cultivation and will jremain unused until drainage pipes are laid. But the great drawback draw-back to the county districts is the small available supply of water. Billions of gallons of water run to waste each year, as the flood waters come down from the Ogden river drainage, and regularly each year tho crcps in the valley around Ogdeu have an insufficient supply from the irrigation streams. In South Fork canyon is an almost natural reservoir site, where water for 20,000 acres can be impounded at a comparatively small cost. Some day th6 farmers of the county and tho people of Ogden, as a measure of self-protection self-protection from dry rot, will get behind be-hind those who are laboring to have a great storage reservoir built, and they will complete the task already started. |