Show WH WHAT A 1 WE IN E WANT VAI A N T T TH H E legislature TO DO to the legislature will meet in a week or two for a sixty day session ion only every two years do we have the opp opportunity ort unity to obtain appropriations ap atio lis rules laws and attention officially from the state tate in I 1 this new country with much land still sd with ith no ito transportation facilities and yet having ving a virtual inland empire ern pire as yet almost entirely undeveloped it behooves us to do all that we possibly may be able to do towards securing better roads in getting ft Duc duchesne besne grajo ir abc a branch of the agricultural college and in obtaining many things tangs w which we are arc entitled to get but we shall have to work helping our representatives and not giving up until the legislature closes ft duchesne the abandoned military post with itz its many good pod substantial buildings and with several sections of good land situated on the banks of the he uintah river is an ideal place fora for a school it is too valuable to be donated to the state as a home for the feeble minded however numerous and deserving they may be we want vant P good school there where scientific farming and general science in all practical branches may be taught good roads are paramount wil ath 1 the school eastern utah his has ro r o state school altho cedar city salt lake and logan each has such an all institution here hem is virtually half of the state without that which the other halfe half has bas in ample number and in accessible locations but we are equally as neglected in the matter of good roads here we are n now new country with roada to lo ii built in all directions our av mus must be retarded good roads will permit peir nit j 1 proper travel irm and at present 4 1 suto may not leave the tha one min road for a great distance dial lance 2 io i 0 the che rich farm fanning in g country try wither ditl hir can heavy loads be krofl ja ta I 1 ily transported trin ns parted to market state aid is essential because we via cannot handle the job many on the reservation are asking that some action be ba taken which will permit an open season on beaver at present considerable money is spent annually in guarding canals and intakes in takes thereto against dams which these busy little nima animals con construct we dont care to raise fur animals unless they are profitable and surely the state state should not ask it credit should be asked for meritorious irrigation projects the last legislature authorized what then seemed to be the desired assistance but the state land board by stringent rules made the law of little practical value large tracts of land are lying unplowed altho fertile needing only water and the water is running down the rivers there are several projects that are as safe for investment as government bonds for instance the upper blue bench project will develop about horse power besides furnishing water vater for acres and the whole job is done for the price of about fifteen dollars per acre yet this big tract land as fertile as any in the state is lying still there are many others the state can borrow money at from rouerto to five per cent and loan it to irrigation projects at slightly increased interest the addition paying the expenses of the business another law needed is that which should compell irrigation companies whether federal or private to screen the intakes in takes to all canals at present millions of good fish are killed annually in our canals such stich wanton waste should be stopped some action should be taken concerning 2012 aning the problem of indian gracing lands much has been mid in these columns regarding this question every com club should get busy r record |