Show BASIN SURVEY COMMITTEE STARTS ACTIVE WORK meeting on march 3rd ard starts work to complete survey of irrigated and irrigable lauds lands in our two counties Per pursuant to call by the dra gulch com commetta mitta a meeting was held lat last saturday afternoon in the diy daiy gulch office and was attended by several irrigation companies depre dented officially or unofficially the call invited all companies individuals and others holding water reet and decide what action should lye be taken to better protect tire ulu uin ah basins water in a the colorado river drainage roads were v erg v eily very bad owing to th the heavy wet et snow ret a fair la presentation was on hand i L A hollenbeck of duchesne was on hand with full data to defend the boulder dam and fight the power trusts the meeting soon developed vi a debate mow or less between mr air hollenbeck and chairman J P may the latter contending bat state rights to the water was supreme and should not be permitted to ito lapse by any federal ac tion mr hollenbeck seemed to think that the power trust should be busted even it if it requires a hundred million dollars for a big daon dam on the colorado to do db it A soon as the debate between these opposite views was more or I 1 les e i continued on pago seven BASIN SURVEY COMMITTEE STARTS ACTIVE WORK C linued from page one ended the meeting mee tang got down u 1 actual business on the purpose of the mel deleting eting that is to discuss our ou relation to the itlie trend ot of aul the possible effect the boulder Boul dier dam apay acay have on our development A com of five was chosen to gather data on the basins lands both irrigated and irrigable li rl gable as follows J P may alay chairman chair mra and B 0 colton randlett R E dillman roosevelt william oaks vernal verna and AV E davis ot of farmers tion ion company of altonah alzonah Al tonah sir ir dills dil will assemble facts for thi the upper lake fork mr oaks for th ashley district mr air colton for uintah river especially the rast cast side territory and mr air dil and mr may to handle the dry gulch ler lectory leri tory the Duclus ii ariee and lowr lowar low r Lake fork the committee will try to assemble tire the complete acreage acreage ge of irrigated riga tied lands first and thien ahle n to make a conservative estimate ot of tiro the lands which may lye be reclaimed IL II is believed that thie government preliminary surveys of the large tracts that withdrawn and which are still hold held sewed up such as dead dad mans bench south T myton bench country and thie the ouray reservoir are am not fair the chair man has received maps recently from ralph R woolley U S hydraulic engineer salt laka city working under the U S geological survey and supposedly a specialist on water for utah at least east and these maps together inith letters indicate a great lack of formation information in about our lands reclaimed mr wolley shows very little knowledge of the lands we expect will soon u v reclaimed such as much ot of the south myton mylon tire the ouray valley all left out much of colorado park lapoint and aridell tridell districts ana all of white river willow creek and hill creek from green river up and dead mans blaus bench Is not noted at all when government specialists show such great lack of knowledge of our irrl irrigable gabie areas and in a meeting of all engineers recently stated state rd that all lands in the colorado river drainage 8 counties could not total ovier over acres it is apparently time for us to take the matter into our own hands our two counties alone haw have as much land depending on tho the colorado river drainage irrigated irrigate and irrigable as ar this expert would give the tae eight tight counties the committee now hv working orkin will not have hare tune time to make a thorough study of the matter but they will gt get together a large mass of 0 data regarding the landt lands we have depending on this ibis river sy system and considerable information on lands which we bellero will soon be reclaimed cl claimed it Is claimed by chaira chairmen cha irmin may alart the survey made on the cutet myton bench section ed far too much water and tor for a 11 period during the growing season that is m much uch longer than is nc needed eded lie ile also states that a large tract of land was included in a lar larser er acreage so that the smaller ara cn c in denisi tho the large tract hence too much water for too long a time and trying to include lands not irrigable ini gable at present at least fur a proper cost killed hilled the whole as ui in irrig irrigable abIe land brin gluR ng the cost to about per aar for vater it is expected saturday co con fidei able information will be ready many believe that it if this movement nt will be ba backed by all companies companie big and little and a concerted effort made to get at the bottom of the whole deal the uintah basin will people have a right to know why acres of first class land on white river are held back allbough altAi alb bough ough the cost is very small smal 1 not over 10 to 20 at most for first class water tights and about half of it needed tor for the he utes I 1 |