Show Retired rancher gives his reasons Why Duchesne County People need Central Utah Project by Horace All red After spending 40 years ranching in the Uintah operating with the handicaps of an inadequate water supply for our farm lands and and having had some small part in attempting to work for the improvement of these I feel impressed to express myself regarding a very important and progressive movement now underway that will greatly affect the entire Uintah Basin and the state of Utah a whole It was to me a great satisfaction to learn that final approval had been given for the formation of a seven county conservancy district for the main purpose of promoting the construction of the Initial phase of the Central Utah Project This phase of this great which will mean so when to Utah and especially to the Uintah must be gotten way before and especially our young can start working for approval of and construction of the Ultimate which when completed will enable Utah to make use of our share of the waters of the Colorado allotted to us by the Upper Basin As I understand the planning now underway by the Bureau of Reclamation most of the lands in the western part of the Basin when the Initial phase is have a good dependable full year water supply for all lands worthy of receiving stored in my the Uintah Basin will never come fully into bloom until the Ultimate phase of the Central Utah project is That quite possibly will be for the next generation to benefit from but are we not obligated to look forward and plan for those yet to I firmly believe we have 30 to 40 thousand acres not now being irrigated or having a very poor water supply when supplied with a full season water will have a great pasture We have today in this part of the Basin pastures that are producing of beef per acre per I see no reason why these other lands can not do as well as soon as they are given adequate water each Assume that our other lands will produce of beef each I can visualize the Uintah Basin shipping thousands of feeder steers each year at a very satisfactory acres of pasture producing of beef looks like If you receive 4 acre feet of water at a cost of per acre your yearly water costs will never exceed per and your income will be per acre with very little other expense after the pastures are and I think it will be you will be given a liberal development period before you start you will be able to do most of your own work in developing these pastures to where they will start Given a 50 year repayment the project will be paid off and then your water costs will be very Without this I am afraid our young people will either have to leave or else continue to look at these barren acres from here There isn't an acre of this Roosevelt Valley but what could be producing fine pastures 10 years after receiving sufficient the Bureau of Reclamation si a planning not a promotional eau of Reclamation is a planning we must do the Lets do more cooperating and less We must all pull together and pull hard if we arc ever to put to use in Utah all this water of ours that is now going to waste down the as far as we are The lower Basin or California hopes we will sleep on the |