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Show Mr. Dry Gulch Water User: Last week 1 pointed out the loss of water at the time of the year we need water most. What is your share of the lost income? An average farmer in the upper country with 160 acres of irrigated irrigat-ed land would increase his yearly crop production by 90 tons of hay, 150 ton of silage, 450 "bu. of grain and could pasture 40 more cows or 200 sheep during the pasture season. By using all of the barnyard manure and commercial fertilizers the crops required, and by putting in a good system of Irrigation Ditches, the yield would be even more. This is too big a price to pay for the water we lose through poor water management and seepage losses in the canals. The need for measuring weers (Parshall flumes), canal headings, canal lining, regulatory reservoirs on each major canal, winter- and spring storage reservoirs, etc., is so urgent that we cannot afford to depend on the engineering help now available through our Soil Conservation District and our busy local enginers, Byron Colton and Louie Galloway. We must hire our own engineer to work with these people. If we make improvements in our canal system at the present rate Dry Gulch must hire an engineer en-gineer to get the job done on time. If we are to get better and more equal distribution of water to every farmer we must have a capable water manager. One man can do both jobs and have the responsibility for proving up our water filings, too. Every water user should personally per-sonally insist to his director that we are already 30 years late in hiring a water manager and engineer. en-gineer. Call your director NOW. Don't wait until tomorrow! We will grow more crops with the water we are losing each year than we will with water from the Central Utah Project if we improve im-prove our system now. Our directors do not know what the system needs. Urge your director di-rector to work with our Soil Conservation Con-servation District to prepare a complete plan of improvement to be followed. By following a complete com-plete plan we will get much more for our assessment money. DON NIELSON |