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Show BONDING WILL SAVE CROPS AND ADD TO PRODUCTIVITY I I OF THE LANDS OF THE COUNTY 4 I tauot Ogdn Standard In our kfr ffrfth! ISDd. too published a 1st-"'from 1st-"'from Phil Ortb. of Huntevfll.. in KirV after making ft numbf '.f r.-m r,,. idstement... hr mak" nn a,,flrk .1.. irrlcal'on problem whir!, is h. ri VqtSI out Dr. Fon..r and .hr n-'.bfr rounty farm bureau w sk the question. Ar the farm- " 500 o build reservoirs " " ,' t u er whether It if to the farm- I-interest or not to vote thin bond Wl have, during the pt .ear, had of the driest seasons on ?ecnrd fV,rv farmer In this count . iTtbt nrd' of more wa'er to proper- iTTtca"4 hl" farm Vry fAW of ,h', ,t what lost a ronf.ldrr.tbl- rum of money from the lack of ira'er. I venture ven-ture to say that $500 000 vrould n-i cover the loss that was saatainod In Weber county through the drouth hi year. The same thins Ma happ Dtd only In a leMOT degree, for (ho last twenty-five years. Would poi this go I a Ions way toward hulldin- or develop Ing reservoirs or water RlUM? Then' in addition there are thousands oi acres of first class land In the north western part of thie mur. t ipcclall adapted to the crowing o BUgtr 1 ret i This land has ben lying for yers idb and almost i. Some. at the pre-i pre-i cnt time, ran be bought for J35 ar ten That which is be!n farmed all has been yielding probably ten bushels of (Train per a r.- vrithout a' er, when, by having ihe propvr imount of water. It would easily zrovr onr of beeta per acre. LaM me ask a quwtlon. Woald It pay to put $50 worth of walflT op ach aer of fhl land. If by doin? ao l would be made to produce S2r" orth of bortp rarh year Not ono farmer alone but hundred of thorn In thr wrstern pari o.' Qkt county, am phort of water every yf. r. or arc compound to only farm a por Hon of tbelr land. By the dovelop-mpnt dovelop-mpnt of fhso additional wou.ps of watrr supply wp hopo to be al.l to rt wator enough to properly inicatp nil of our land. This will not only brnflt thopc directly Interested, but will bn of great benefit to rvry other man. woman and child in the ronnr. W I Is of InTerest to the farmer i- f,f interest in-terest to every other Individual, His prosperity mean prosperity for nil All the farmers In the county pre not so fortunate as som-- in tli .aily who are located upon tho aeliy wnl ered traet.x ni-ar the sourr.- . 1 wat-r supply and who naturally gel the in 1 dip into the river, while thOM living as far west as Hooper. Writ Weber. Plain City, and other dlBttlcta get what is left. Many men in th.se districts, dis-tricts, during the past reason, idd nut have one drop of water for lir gatlos mm r .luiy 4. I Ii is not fair for Mr. Ortb to com (pare the proposed hond Iseue of a drainage district with the proposed bonl iasue of an irrigation dlsir.ci Neither Is it fair to use the statement of I'rrs. Joseph F. Smith "Gel .jut of debt and keep out" in this COM. I happened 10 be present when this statement was made by PffiSidenl Smith, and he was referring to the ex travaganre that existed among the people in buying the t'uiiic whh ii they could not afford, and in Ihe Bamo sermon he advised the peopK- to invest in-vest th'-ir s'lrplu mone in real 'ate and farming property. ' It will not be Hueh a terrible thine; If the people do have to mortgage their farms to obtain a auffloiunl wa or supply, and I venture t,- -.: that it will be the best thing thaJ ever happened to the countv ( the do so and that it will be the beal .hint that ever happened to th county ii they do so and that It -iil 1. easily paid off before the appointed tl ne (Signed) A FARM BR |