Show UTAH LAKE RESERVOIR FIZZLE treo free lauce lance readers will remember the mighty efforts that thai governor reber heber br welle state engineer E doremus t arid ad I 1 othir great men of utah made to hoodwink tho chiefs of the geological survey into selecting utah lake as a fr reservoir I 1 I 1 voir and how those men 0 of f 11 mighty ft hindsight sent a paid atty i down to washington to plead with director rector JI walcott to become a party to the wolla et efa nl al grab people from froin other were justly contending that government aid for irrigation in this state could be aare judiciously expended on localities ti es wb where exe results would be infinitely greater than aban could be obtained by dyk 1 ing and dredging utah lake but our narrow arrow n I 1 gauged governor would not recognize the claims of any other portion of thy the state as against his home county with him it appeared to be i tho butali lake scheme or nothing for utah Be cantly director walcott decided that the deking of utah lake would be folly bokly as thero there is not surplus water to till fill the proposed reservoir and now the life Cover governor Dor et al 1 are ou on astill a still hunt for water for their pet scheme the governor ought to know that even even if thero were water enough to to a 1 I etith lake after dyl deking clug that it 1 would should be just that eliat much taken fron from great salt lake and would therefore more quickly conaw ate another of the governors nightmares the drying up of of salt lakes bath batulug lug resort but f ahe he governor should not despair I 1 beat because tuso 0 of f the shrinkage of tho the great suit lake it is 19 in reality a blessing in disguise to executive the scheme I 1 of pumping snake river over the rim of the basin into bear river thence into the salt lake bathing resort also tit at governa govern government mant ant expense 1 will again supply governor wells with hot air and may again be a vote catcher from those BO densely ignorant as to believe that the totally impracticable 1 behyme is possible in id fact since the governors attempt to build a reservoir and afterwards secure the water with which to fill it there ara many who are willing to retract the old charge of political insincerity in ha hie la proposition to turn an out of tho the state river into great gr at salt balce and 0 concede his po political litral honesty and childlike child like faith that it can aud and will be ae dons done by the government 1 I doubtless governor wells wasi aided in hi the out of the river by that prince oj civil ds as he surely was in the utah lake wildcat proposition and doubtless it the governors governor a gratitude to doremus Dorea aus for suggesting the scheme to replenish the dying bathing resort that prompted ills hia excellency to influence the late subservient legislature into furna furnishing ashing it n niche for his pot pet engineer and which he st so ably alls as the irrigation auto autocrat erat of utah dutrh I 1 indeed the mutual admiration A and gratitude existing be t ateeq aeu his hia E excellency nud and th tha state engineer Is truly affecting in fact they constitute a mutual ald aid society in which the only chilling feature is its slightly monopolistic tendencies the farmers hir of utah should be comforted in the certain knowledge khow ledge they now have of the state engineers transcendent transcend almost supernatural super natural ability to carry out tho provisions of that abortion passed by the late lamented legislature and known as ai the tate state S irrigation act mr doremus proposed to dyke utah lake then shovel millions mil liona of toris tons of mud overl the dyke and thus make mat e room for the water and andt then llen hunt for the 1 water |