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Show I GOVERNMENT SHOULD AID. Our federal government has spent great sums of money on reclamation re-clamation projects in the west, most of the expenditures being in irrigation ir-rigation projects built entirely by government funds. Here and there a failure is seen, one of which is the Fallon project in Nevada, i Inasmuch as the object to be attained m reclamation "is to make i more land available for home building, now and then it might be well for the government to lend assistance to irrigation districts such as the one now formed in Weber county The benefits of expert work I and direction have been extended, it is true, but the government could go further and build a great dam on South Fork, or divert the waters at the mouth of Bear Lake, and await developments for a return of I the interest and principal. There is scarcely any element of chance in the local undertaking j and the direct results arc to be accurately figured. |