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Show jj 00 !UTAH AND IRRIGATION. The statements made at the Irrigation Irriga-tion and Drainage Congress convention conven-tion that Utah once was a leader In Irrigation but has lost much of that prestige through inactivity hurts but ij the assertions are true, j In the past fifteen years we have (read article after article about huge I reclamation projects completed, under-j under-j way or begun in Idaho. Wo have I watched the barren sage brush waste . of the Twin Falls-Burley district fade jaway to be replaced by a wide ex-I ex-I panse of rich farm land dotted with substantial farm dwellings as numerous numer-ous as freckles on a red haired country coun-try boy's face. " Where there were hundreds of settlers set-tlers fifteen years ago, there are thousands thou-sands now and all through Irrigation. And Idaho l not resting. From Washington comes the announcement of another Immense project to bo carried car-ried out In the vicinity of American Falls. In the neighboring statea of Arizona and New Mexico, great strides have taken place in irrigation in the last ten years. Utahns have read all about -these huge projects and have heard of t 1 the great Increase In wealth resulting to those states. Meanwhile, what has been done in Utah? There has hardly been a project carried out that compares oven in a small way to the projects of the neighboring neigh-boring states. There is a project on foot for Weber We-ber county. It is a big thing for. the county and will mean a vast increase In the county's wealth. Yet it is a small project as compared to those un- j t dertaken and completed elsewhere, j Still it is a fine start in the right direction and the hope is expressed that Utah will soon catch up with itself it-self in tho matter of irrigation. |