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Show Fortier Urges the , Storing of Water And Drainage Work That Ogden City should immediately proceed with the Skull Crack reservoir reser-voir project and thai Weber county .should take up the drainage work proposed pro-posed and planned by the Wbr county farm bureau, was the advice given Ogden City and Weber county yesterday by Dr. Samuel G. Fortier, government irrigation engineer, who was here while on his way to San Francisco. He said in an interview: "I am returning from a trip to western west-ern Canada, v. here an important irrigation irri-gation convention was recently held at Medicine Hat. Alberta. Southern Alberta Al-berta and southwestern Saskatchewan have suffered severely from drought for two seasons in succession anu those who were luke warm in regard to the necessity of irrigation a few years ago are now its strongest advocates. advo-cates. Likes Utah's Plan. "T am vtr.N much pleased to learn In paBSlng through Ogdcn thai a well-directed well-directed and far flung movement has been started to conserve some of the waste water of central Utah. I under ctand this movement will include the Ogden and Weber rivers in which this city is vitally concerned. I trust the people of Weber countv will co-operate with other counties to the south in utilizing to a fuller extent than is now done the valuable water which is now discharged every spring into GreV. Salt Lake. "In this connection, I wish to call attention to work which was begun here by the farm bureau and our division some two years ago About that timp. I submitted a preliminary report re-port to former Mayor Heywood. urging the necessity of providing storage (water for Ogden City. About the same time D. D. McKay, president of the farm bureau, working in eo-operati-n with our engineers, R A. Hart, L. M. Winsor and Sumner Margetts, began a study of the district lying northwest of Ogden City, with a view to draining the waterlogged portions and providing an additional supply of water from near the outlet of Bear river for both wet and dry portions "Reclamation development, of th's kind is in line with what is proposed by the association of the eight central counties of Utah. Furthermore, since" this work has now been under consif1-oration consif1-oration for at least two year.?, ' speak for it tho hearty support nn ! only of the citizens of Ogden, but cf ' residents of the entire county, sine ' an additional supply of domestic wat? for Ogden and the reclamation of tb water-logged alkalied and barren Iand3 of the county of Weber constitutes an Important part of what is to he on j dertaken by tho Utah Water Suppi association representing eight cou.1-ties, cou.1-ties, I trust the people of Ogden anl their friends and supporters, the Weber We-ber county farmers, will 'go over th9 top' with a vim and complete the work-now work-now begun while the larger problems of the south are being investigated "under "un-der the able leadership of Engine,-Parker." Engine,-Parker." oo |