Show UTAH IS utah ie again recognized as leading ift kautter i 0 irrigation the depart agriculture ha just isred a upon afi irrigation law and cue this state it is known as bul 1 and contain the results of beul investigations conducted elwood mead jagt year ad Teed position ae the report has led the san chronicle to pay this tribute it taa in 1 that men of iho races of yr thern europe dealt upon their awn account with the problems of irrigation will no guide but their own ingenuity sharpened and directed by the pressure of the early mor hon put tiers achieved a remarkable eco jami As th powel of won law the alaci of u f precisely like those which have impoverished eo joany irrigators in california 1 ow an without waiting for hersal un calamity to drive them tho people af luar have returned to first principles by tho enactment of law substantially like that which our own legislature refused even to consider the 1 for californians to learn ie that peaceful and therefore profitable irrigation ie possible only under the of a strong administrative authority and that the unit of administration must be the stream and not any political division in the early history of utah the mormon church pro aided vided the administrative authority and there was peace and progress with the coming of the gentiles the authority of the courts superseded alie authority of the church and chaba followed as it always mud follow the attempts of courts to administer an irrigation ays eys lero now the people of butali have created a state administrative eysom under the direction of a state engineer the state of nevada has done the same thing aa have we believe all or nearly all other states in which irrigation problems aro pressing in california chaos still reigns tho etory of the utah experience is told in an interesting way in the detailed reports of the field agents who made the investigation bereis presented another reason why nu mistake was made in selecting ogden a the place of meeting of the eich cath national irrigation congre those interested in irrigation will find in utah the highest development of arid land cultivation ti nat only in the method of applying water to the soil but in the las governing the use of arater for irrigation purposes |