Roosevelt Standard | 1917-08-22 | Page 1 | The Farmers Meeting

THE FARMERS MEETING the farmers held their meeting at tho the trinity church saturday ev evening ching and a good crowd ans s in attendance st en dance I 1 J II 11 Wit iwer uintah county agent was in charge of the meeting and introduced prof win peterson state ceolo gist of the utah state agrical tural college of logan prof Pei petar cison spoke history of the tha formation of the uintah basin H he went back millions of years dellill telling 9 the audience when the basin was an ocean and how the various rocks were first formed he was followed by prof 0 W Is Isra alson who spoke on arri ration gation among other things ho he said that too t 0 much irrigating did as s much damage as not enough and pave gave p ave various examples whore the crops were damaged the next speaker introduced was T P G harden ile he is an irrigation ri engineer L M winsor was the last Z speaker er of the evening mr winsor is in an irrigation specialist and is well known in the basin