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Show fSfire OF STATE f IL MATERIALLY HELP III I fiflPID DEVELOPMENT OP UTAH ment Experts Working Out Solution of Problems i Three Lines According to Uses to Which Water Ls I Bl ttlement Depends Largely Upon Moisture Supply: !j Being Entered by Settlers Every Year Add Millions 1 PoLuctivity, Says Government Report. nlv from sufrace orunder-'t:pP'- ,hc dominant fac-K.J fac-K.J w)'Jrc0 ' ' ,1( n- of the remaln- --tern atatea. All agrl-M'l, agrl-M'l, erasing development Ktl Tr,ri transportation and Binf possibilities are. dlrect-uDon dlrect-uDon this one resource 'nd rr or ro administer the Bt'hlK land." without rerer-K8lr rerer-K8lr Pu''rr Jupply Is to Ignore rtTVa"or in fh. develop-Vfl develop-Vfl resources, according SlM-, hydraulic engln-sk engln-sk raited State geological sur-K'ibe sur-K'ibe wh0 "ttd"uarler' rtiStion of this relation -J I; tho public lands and 1,' wm It-- inception, has d In the work of securing SSSrJetlon regarding the dla-.'nH dla-.'nH utilization of water and Ht if possible the highest ef-K4', ef-K4', Its use. especially In those iWe the demand for water 3K,U?aV-ible supply, said Mr KnllSOTLVG H CTT DVTA. JS?fthesorve.- in collecting IvKl rnv daU and in connection Hin.ral ifourcea is too general-' general-' ftSitodcvftle inurh time to In fflnM0,". ,he work during the past Rffcubeen conducted with renewed I BL v nthcrlng stream flow data aihM? ot on,y, krpt up, - UKrttf station?, but Is rl-f rl-f ejtiblishlnp others 10 enable LiSnUier more complete data on fl flR' In the state. The stream WpnW s the direction ' I K fL Purton md that of mineral KnBirMdata under P aflstlclan Ictor ihhKs lands ath relation to watei llljK the worl. ! thorough; fcjf ot !he -.if itself, it; qual-j Kua'tl!' and distribution. The . IfJPfKL.r.isj facts thus obtained ha- . 5 "fc' d.cJ bv mi the Bpciot of the probable uses to effpKthe vater will be put, taking In- Kthich leave (hi 'tiBpird In qualttj "ml undim-nflKjIn undim-nflKjIn quantity a vatcr power i "Eojicct; those which impair Its i Kg- u municipal use and those lhBb deplete its quantity, as Irriga-, problem of forecasting the prob-.Jk prob-.Jk i. gi..f JnQKbl frater supply i being work-' Hit in Utait b ill-' si 1 1 in ln- . BlUUttk . rlf.ci i possible of 'MM- meds WvUWttirnipplv for domestic use in the iKi!ats and particularly in I'tah Ertlering states closely elated with agricultural development. Thin domestic use include water not only for the house hold but for farm animals, cattle on the ranges and for the prospector in the desert wasti -DKPE'DS O.N WVITR. Permanent auric ultural settlement: depends upon tho presence of a sup-Ily sup-Ily suitable for domestic pui ,, since he fundamental requirements under the liometead laws and both residence and cultivation, the extension exten-sion of settlement to new area s possible pos-sible only when the prospective homesteader home-steader finds water within a reasonable reason-able distance of his chosen location When sufficient water doe not exist on the surface, the homesteader must resort to wells. Much valuable data has been gathered by the Stirvej showing show-ing the existence and depth of the water wa-ter plane in i'tah as a result of the many explorations conducted to 0- i mine If wells can be sunk on entered public lands In Utah it has been found by the survey that in many instances wells would be tOO deep and eosth for the Individual hnmost ender and 11 was with the good of Utah homestcadera In mind that emigres enacted .1 special revision to the homestead laws to re-lleve re-lleve the entryman of the residence section to'cases whore a dome si 1. water wa-ter supply IS not availabe and Cannol be obtained it first applied in Utah, and under Its generous provisions large tracts of good lands were opened to citizens which otherwise must have remained re-mained closed to a great detriment to Utah; Since Its adoption, however, it has been ex I ended to several other western states and millions of acres of public land have been opened Classification under these acts, while restricted by the water auppiy factor, '1" :--sts mi part upon omer prvr-Blona prvr-Blona Of each individual act which requires re-quires thai the land must be susceptible suscepti-ble to cultivation at bast under .irv funning methods STATICS RESOURCES INCREASED. Since the adoption of this .section more than 2,000,000 acres have been entered in Utah. Of this extensive acreage covering plots all over the state a large part has been brought to the state a resources For the prop-er prop-er disposal and administration of the mountainous areas which are not suitable for cultivation, Congress in December, 19-16, enacted the stock-raising stock-raising homestead to embrace MO acres of land whose chief alue is for stock and raising forage crops. yet which can support a family Under this Stoekralfllhg homestead more than 100.ooc.000 acres have been designated, most of which are in the western ntaten. About J.OO.fiOO acres have been classifier; under this act in Utnh: 300,000 In lrk.lio. 11,000.000 in Arizona, and If., 000, 000 acres in Wy oming. The designation! In i tab and Idaho represent the acreage which had been applied foru"d la probably en-j tared on while the arger areas lnv.ri-zona lnv.ri-zona and Wyoming represent large blanket designation and probnbly the entire a reaae to be classified under this act. It la estimated that there are about 1,000,000 more acres of Mtockralslng lands lii this state Work was begun 'this fall on blanket designations to I throw this vast acreage open to enlv By next fall It Is thought most of thif 10, 800, aOO acres will have been designated des-ignated and will be open for entr) I This means a decided boost to the stock and wool growing industries In I Utah. The vast strYtches of mountainous moun-tainous country offtr excellent forage (crops, land officials declare, and should offer all the grazing land which can be used for many years to icome. What it means in additional re-I re-I source a can hardly be estimated, yet j this act Is looked upon us one of the 'most beneficial to the west ever passed. The applications for designations land the de-signal loos allowed In Utah lunder the stock raising act for the 'year endinK October l. 19-0. in acreage acre-age amounts to mure ihun 12 times that applied for and designated un-'der un-'der the acl the year previous, . according ac-cording to figures compiled bj Ralph S. Kelley. chief of the field division of ''he general land office bete l'rom the year Oct. 1, 1919. to Oct. I, 1920. about 320 applications for I designation tinder the 640 acre act 'were filed with the local field dlviaion embracing an acreage "f- H0.60S i-'. jThls acreage is hinK examined and designation and allowance Of the en .tries is now pending before the gener- ai land officp at Washington During Ithe same period BOO stock grazing p-j p-j plications embracing 512,000 er designated and allowed This latter will now be developed as stock grazing graz-ing lands. For the previous year, only 52,410 iacres were applied for designation and allowed. I Yet despite this great growth in the development of this state's public lands under the stock grazing homestead, home-stead, Utah is stil a great deal behind be-hind Idaho, as will be shown by the 'following figures. ,c," il land office 'officials are at a loss to account for 'any reason why Idaho and other si n--; should be shown a preference over I Utah as has been done in the past I During the year 191S the total acreage acre-age applied fo) aim allowed under the stock raising act amounted to 528 536 'acres, in 1919 tbis figure- was Increased Increas-ed to nearly 2,240,000 acres. Jn 1920 although al-though no definite? figures are available avail-able It is thought he acreage went all out of proportions to previous I years. M'IM.H A IK Vs PI N DING. Thousands Of petitions for designation designa-tion are ye,i pending in the general land office many Ot which are within (this state The- work however ls being be-ing disposed of an fast as condition8 twill permit and within a short 1 im probably most of the applications j pending for acreage Jn Utah will be .allowed, thus adding hundreds of j thousands of acres to the state's stock 1 grazing lands. The first orderly and scientific classification of public lands was the 1 160 acre homestead passed for ihe lm- mediate purpose of fostering Irrigation, Irriga-tion, The reclamation service was an , immediate outgrowth of the work ,'done by the geological survey in classifying clas-sifying lands as to their irriggbillty, said Mr. Wdoley The results of this Work can be seen in the many reclamation reclam-ation projects. Here aguin, however, I'tah ban been among the most backward states. Idaho Ida-ho on her north and other bordering states have been obtaining largo sums of money from the government while I Utah has received almost nothing for Hie development of her rrr-il feast-' hie reclamation projects The 03reen river in the southeastern part of the Mat., would be one of the best projects pro-jects in the west. It would reclaim about 2 4 0.OQO acres. thus nearly .doubling the irrigated lands In the state- Several other good projects toiihl be developed In Utah by the government should favorable action I be taken In the senate-I senate-I Under the 320 sere or enlarged j homestead act nearly all the avull-'ablo avull-'ablo dry farming area in Utah has been placed under cultivation and It la from the-.' Ion da that a large portion por-tion of the state's agricultural wealth in derived. More than 200,000000 acres of public- domain In the we st have- been classified under this act. jln the local land office many entries under this act have been granted In the past vear. Kearl 500,000 acres of the best public lands in Utah have been set aside In power site reserves for 1 he-purpose he-purpose of preventing the alienation I of water power. This ties up the lands from all agricultural developments develop-ments and In many Instances Includes In-cludes a much larger acreage than Is 'necessarv or could posslhlv be used lor power development, Mr. Wootley declared In ' tah and other Inter-mountaln Inter-mountaln states this condition was laggravated mot" than the average as a larger aoreage had to be reserve d jbecause of the physical geographical conditions in this mountainous coUn- rv. UMPOR1 Wi NEW LAW This condition Is greatly relieved In I'tah by the- reiea.se bill passed by congress last June In which they authorize au-thorize the lands reserved to he enteg- ,'ed under the various homeateada with the provision that the government may withdraw them ngain should It be uhsiqui ntl' fo.jnd tha the lands are needed for power site reserve s. This I throws open to entry chiefly under the 1 1,0 acre home -ocad net ne-arly 100-000 100-000 acres Of the best lands within this Btate and should Increase within B ttffl I years, me Mates agricultural reaour-cea reaour-cea by nearly one-l.:elf. In the wate r power development itself it-self this State ranks among the- for,., most in elevelopme.it possibilities, e? one of the hindmost in actual development. devel-opment. There are only It; etates which have a gr'eatei borsfspowr which could be de. eloped per aquare mlb than I'tah Mr W'nolley an-I an-I nounced i This slate has IS J horsepower per square mile or a iota) of about 1,274,-000 1,274,-000 horsepowe r whvsh will ultimate!) I..- developed once there is a demand 'here for this power The present .1- -jvolopments do not to1! more than one lc nth of that amount, |
