Show mayor john F bowman of capitol city favors taking water from duchesne river head waters 0 of f duchesne river filed on for state capitals supply strawberry waters taken and now aney file on our lar gest g est river eiver quite unpretentious as jt it wore were salt lake city filed last week on the head waters of the duchesne river including rock cheek branch the th e state capital wants 50 second feet and possibly additional water which later investigations may indicate Is justified aid for delivery into the provo river to the average citizen this allay acm all light as the law protects the users in their priority and therefore ther there etoie foie valid lights in ili the basin may inay not be et er fectea but there biere aie aid important phases of the subject which deseive our serious consideration those thoe who have lived here many years enduring isolation privation a adversity d and wha whatnot biot because of the newness of things and these adverse verso conditions have a just right to scratch their heads and think about twenty years ago the tead head waters of the strawberry river were diverted by bv a dam and tunnel into utah county this was ostensibly for reclaiming farm lands abe there re but the th major reason for the i three and a quarter million dollar expenditure was that thie the water could bp be used for Salt Lake county and incidentally help to kaep the salt lake water to s il normal level the excess water in the jordan river which drains utai uta lake was to a large extent pumped as it ia w today upon th the e sid ids of the mountain and carried along the foot hills bills towards draper sandy etc and the farmers of those communities use that water while the capital city uses the canyon water formerly used by the farmers it is 13 apparent that strawberry water to an important degree runs indirectly lly into the water system of salt lake city and its suburbs sub erbs litt or no complaint was made as I 1 is within the law and it is likely that more or less the same attitude will be taken regarding this duchesne river proposition however it is a citizens duty even against his own welfare possibly to register a complaint in stating certain phases of 0 the matter which deserves attention salt lake city has done very very verv little to help develop this th is basin the south myton the independent the blue bench the ouray valley and several other very meritorious projects are today held up because capital could not be secured because our big men evidently regarded this as a ter litany which might bp b attended to later idaho Wyom liv canada oregon california and now montana have received art arb th the bearty cooperation of our bis big men financially and otherwise careful and systematic abic colonization has been going on in other states for thirty tive five years this has b beu aeu very much to advantage commercially in certain parts and phases and is however while this urgent activity has been sing in these lands in building homes and developing 7 communities with utah sympathy similar interest in this 1 basin has bas llean sadly lacking his rort of utah might wait a as i it ilaa am w ait 1 even now the basin babin has only abor 5 per cent of the states population by mountains a rugged range country separating the agricultural a ri cultural section about abou miles from the older and leanest part dart 0 of the developed area the lasan baatu was and is still very isolated it is conservative to say that this basin has 35 per cent of all the agricultural imi land d in utah for which there Is water and chiei may even be irrigated land Y this big area has patiently waited for a generation geneia tion since the reservation a was opened and is still waiting for transportation transports Tran tion a a raili railroad oad is the one big pio proposition position A good auto road is the next best thing and is needed anyway but a railroad would immediately enable us to export and to import carload deliveries going and coining would mean rap rapid growth giotti there is no substitute in reality utah with little more than two acres per der capita in actual crops the lowest of any public land state p possibly shibly helps develop idaho with her six acres per capita capata wyoming with even more and so on in ili this basin we have the cheapest farm lands in the west wp st the cheapest water rights second to none yet we receive no cone cited sympathetic 1 or other fair air cooperation from salt lake city a city with about 35 per cent of 0 the population ot of the state and virtual control ot of I 1 its activities here have about twelve acres ot of good farra farm land per capita provided with water much of it actually farmed this is not oven cven halt half ot of the land which will be farmed because there is water for it the climate the altitude the protection w h I 1 01 L our continued on page two salt lake for more basin water continued from pago page one mountain rim gives us during lh winter weather our timber coal abundant 1 power and vast agricultural wealth all th the validity of our efeim 0 fo o ask our irate ita help heip us against UK the one great disadvantage that Is iso lation there Is no fairness in any claim that thal utah maycot maYji ma ot help hello the uintah basin secure a railroad colorado atter after haying having SL a road built j by one ot of it its brave e men dave Lm offitt has recently completed la atun tunnel nei through the range at a cost that would build a good road craig to this was done by the legis laruie passing a law which deimit teda led i a district to be formed and bonds issued and denver was in eluded in that district I 1 I 1 now it if salt lake city is to take taka te head waters of the duchesne ducheane river faither debrea decreasing ieng our supply for lands yet to bo be reclaimed the least that the city in cooperation with provo and ogden may do Is ig to help us secure the railroad 1 1 ander under the conditions I 1 that prevail but briefly noted herein heleln it will be a moral injustice tor for salt lake city to again take uintah dasin basin water without any fair compensation we ve have a bigat to 10 know how long the old time indifferent at will prevail regarding this railroad lail road ita railroad Is too tod big then it is not unreasonable to ask that we have hearty cooperation in advancing our development doubling our population would not be an extra bis big effort it if our state slate would back us heartily and according to sound banking and with twice the present home makers we would dern demand and a railroad without the help of any unusual tactics if DL a hundred families may be directed and more or less financed tn montana as it is reported was recently done by utah men that Is families who practically came from utah or whose parents were uraih people may we not have some such help J P MAY |