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Show parenT -Teachers will meet soon Parent-Teachers Association of ilt. Pleasant will begin this season's rk at a meeting in the high school auditorium at 7:30 next Thursday "ening, October 13. The following Ingram will be presented: Commun-lly Commun-lly singing directed by W. H. Terry; elections high school orchestra: re-Port re-Port of last season's work, President 1,TS- C. W. Sorensen, district chair-fan chair-fan Parent Teachers Associations; vwl solo, Miss Paye Jensen of high school faculty; address "Parents Know the Childs Teacher", Principal Andreas Nelson of the Hamilton School; vocal duet, the Misses Myra feck and Pearl Poulson; address "Membership", Judge Aurlhur O. ie'sen; election of officers; selec-tion, selec-tion, high school orchestra. following this program a get ac-tainted ac-tainted social and party will be nekl lc the gymnasium and refreshment' 'U be served by a committee ol school patrons. AU teachers and parents are cord' lally Invited and urged to be present Cliforuaia, underwriting and guaranteeing guar-anteeing th,e privileges of Arizona With California's anxiety to have this later agreement, known as the six-State compact, concluded so that Bn early P':'se of the Swing-Johnson bill would be assured the action of your Legislature in .withholding its' 'indorcement was surprising to us Your law-making body concluded 4hat. without certain reservations you would be unwise in acceptfng the allocation al-location of the Colorado River water as fired by the six-State compact, and th's W precisely the reason why Utah ins-.'sts on the complete ratification ratifi-cation of a compact by all the seven States. In order that those who may be un-t'anrliar un-t'anrliar with Utah's situation may realize the .great responsibility we felt in this matter it is necessary to visvl ze by a brief history what our condition in Utah really is. Utah is an arid State. In no section sec-tion is there sufficient rainfall to produce crops, with the possible exception ex-ception of a few tracts on wh'ich dry farming of grain has proven a success. suc-cess. The valleys of Utah in which aire located many small cities and hamlets ham-lets are surrounded by farms producing produc-ing in rich abundance all kinds of vegetables, ve-getables, grains and fruits from the 'fertile soils upon which the mountain streams have been led. Must Have Water At this time, nearly eighty years after the advent of the first settlers, set-tlers, one can determine unerringly the aimount of water of each city and settlement throughout the valleys val-leys of Utah by the number of people resting therein, In no other irrigated irrigat-ed section of our nation do the people have a keener appreciation of the vi, ue of water than have the people ' of Utah. Nowhere are there eomniu-' eomniu-' nities more intensley intores,?d in ac-; ac-; quiring . oditional water fo' their ' ands than you find in my own State Even now after eighty years establishment, es-tablishment, we find that within an hour's ride of Salt Lake City, thousands thous-ands of acres of fertile soi', located ideally are consigned to enduring waste until avni.i. ble wat;1, which , must be conveys I from reino'J snurc-j ' es, is brought to furnish the neces-iiiary neces-iiiary moisture for profitable crop pro- cluct'.oM. This is equally true in every valley throughout our State. It is in .this great problem of acqviring addi-jt.cnal addi-jt.cnal water for our vicam lands 'that the future prosperity of the State of Utah rests. We know thai in the near future we will see our ! vacant lands, that are located so i close to the heart of our cities, supplied sup-plied with water brought thereon fmom enormous reservoirs and expen-jsive expen-jsive canals reaching to remote water supplies. ! With the success that has come to some of the valleys of Utah whose ; water supply has 'been augmented by 'reservoirs and extensive canals, the 'vision of many of Utah's population 'has been extended. They are looking 'forward to the day when ".he vast 1 water resources of the eastern i-avt r-f our State and which are now largely runnir,- wild tn the bed of the Colo-'rfdo, Colo-'rfdo, can be controlled through the erection of reservoirs and by the construction con-struction of canals, and be made to : furnish an irrigation supply that will double the present producing area of our State. There i.s no question that 'through this means, the farming re-i re-i sou-ces of our Sate will be doubled, t resulting in a greater growth and (prosperity. The stagnation that seems to hover over many sections of Utah will be removed and with our ability to greatly increase our population popu-lation will come to us industries thai ,iit the present time we are grevonsly J lacking. In I'ppcr i The section of Utah in which the Vreatest transformation will occur is the eastern section of the State, 'being that part located wihin the .iUpper Colorado basin. The soil ! throughout the valleys of Eastern "Utah is remarkably ferule. The eli-rLe eli-rLe is temperate and the ..Jr. . from the mountain ranges of Central Utah. wh"ch flow to the East, aie "hU streams and pass through moun , tainous formations which read, y ; le,,d themselves for reservoir pur- ; ""within the last two months I have ' traveled over and made inspection o , tiaveieu headwaters of . this region. Neai tuc .tne Duchesne, a tributary o U ! Green River are more than 100.00,, : TctL idealy situated for irrigation , Eposes and capable of product ;1U3, vegetables and grains m g eat bundance. The water of t his in passes through this vast tract and . u is only awaiting the magic of I (Continued on last page.) M NEED TOLD TO CAL (Continued from first page.) glneerinp: skill and capital to transform trans-form it from barren wate to a highly high-ly productive region. Adjohiing this potential project there are located 'many s'milar propositions which are traversed by large, unused streair.s of mountain water, The total ac'e-' ac'e-' r-"o of that region capable of cult -vation will j.' obably exceed 1.000.0UG atres, of which only about 300,000 acres are now cultivated. These projects are the greatest undeveloped un-developed resources of our State. T1k representative men of Utah rei'ize that it behooves them to guard with the greatest of diligence LUah's water lights, without which this vast acreage acre-age of fertile lands will be .consigne ! to enduring devolution. For this rea I on the olliicals of Utah are carefully j scrutinizing every move made by the I settlers of the lower ban'n country California and Arizona that may se-riomly se-riomly eiTect, some time in the future, fu-ture, tin precious water supply. Tta'n des'ies that the controversy that has been agitating the Colorado River Ilasri States for the p-'st seven years be settled by a friendly treaty, so that the future may find us on friendl" terms with our neighboring S'ate; rather than in bitter and expensive litigation in the Perioral conitd I.os Angeles Times. |