Show to the dry gulch irrigation company stockholders recently one of class E stockholders called my attention to a rumor that engineer woolf wool had been instructed to proceed to measure to the users ot of the state road lateral the waste water that drains the upper country and flows down what is ia known as the cottonwood gulch I 1 approached mr air woolf wook upon the subject and he said that it was true now fellow stockholders it la Is time lor for us to sit ait up and take notice stand up tip for our rights or bankruptcy of many prosperous farmers will be the result ot of such unjust and pernicious per niclous legislation it has been my duty td walk over nearly every forty acre tract in the two townships north and west of 0 roosevelt this visit has been a I 1 revelation to mo me tor for I 1 have found so little land lad that Is tree free from alkali I 1 do not believe that more than 13 per cent of this whole section Is free troia from this deadly poison now take into consider consideration atin the location of that upper country it Is sufficiently steep that when irrigated the filthy salty substance Is washed off into the above named aulca and carried unto our land below unto a tract of land that is at present most beautiful and productive a section that Is contributing more crops and paying 30 per cent more taxes than any other part of the reservation coun try when we bought stock in the dry gulch irrigation co we paid for river and not water that Is poisoned through filth collected from other peoples land noti our engineer stated that it Is not contrary to state law la w for to measure to users wash or seep water I 1 take issue with him and ask what would one think ol of a physician who would advocate the use 0 of the urine from one person as medicine tor for another the thought is revolting and such a doctor would bo be pronounced fit only tor for a lunatic asylum I 1 contend that the health of man is but little more mora important than the health of 0 the splendid soil that god almighty has given to us as our stewardship mr woolf wook states that the tha college 1 meaning the A C I 1 suppose contends that the above aboe mentioned waste water is not detrimental detriment to the land below upon which it Is applied some more ot of your theo farming dope I 1 have proven just the contrary upon my farm and can show one who wishes to take time t to 0 v walk over it llie question Is asked what are we to do the state road lateral Is fed from the above mentioned gulch should your share ot of water he be measured to you at the head why hy you yon would catch the waste water also very true but I 1 asked la is a vessel ot of water containing one spoonful of salt as as dozen spoon fulls so that by mixing a sufficient amount of 0 pure water with the foul the poisonous matter will naturally not theoretically lessen the damaging effect upon the soil where applied I 1 can not for the life of 0 me see how board members residing in this lower section can sit and have the wool pulled over their eyes for it if class C Is made to submit to such damnable legislation classes D and much of 0 11 will later likewise be caused to suffer als true that the object of the board should be to make the water go as a far as possible but reason honesty and good judgment must 11 be je used y the tae man who took oats to myton wished to make maake the oats hold out so he be put several hundred pounds or of sand in was this doing justice to the dumb animals who had to eat the grain the forcing upon one class of water users impure and defiled aled is as much unjust as sending the oats i 1 I like most of my fellow users hae hac everything tied up in the little well developed farm upon which I 1 live now after years of 0 struggling hardship and privation are we to see in place of aff alfalfa alfi fox foxtail tall in place of waving grain fields frog ponds I 1 say let us unite and rebel against such unnecessary procedure stand up or and demand our rights not as servants but as masters in doing so we will not only benefit ourselves but also the tha holders of classes D and H W F |