Show nON lOSS rw MOULD uw PAY WATER VATER TAX 1 AVERS DR J. J A. A WIDTSOE Declares State Could Double V Area Under Water Without Without- Building More Canals i f I i 1 I in Utah causes an 0 c. c loss that tha t would our year year- l fr iy f water ster tax declared Dr John A A. A president of oC Utah if t Lr tur 1 college yesterday In In an address Sc n of ot the irrigation and drainage leCon O committee of or the Commercial club UtAh tah will be he a great dry farm tarm late continued Dr and Sly elate farming should hould be he encouraged ed drY tn RM It should he be borne in mind that But I U iVr farming in Jt Itself eJr will never no make mako r if V empire It must be coupled treat great It a Ith a u-Ith u Irrl irrigation Dry farming must be beL bei i the broad brond gauge plan pan we also need L on smaller irrigated farms farina and Ln Int In- In tl tie culture to male make u a great t tate state It W S decided dod at the time meeting to tor tall Mil a of or irrigation atlon com com- r 3 arid and d water masters in Salt Lake Lale next fall 1111 and a IL committee was s-as ap ap- pointed which will HI meet today to tal take e eJ J this proposition The TIme committee UD UP uP comprises K R R n. Lyman chairman Dr Austin and W. W W. W t George r Armstrong A u finance committee also J. J WI wes was appointed as follows Frederick ii A A. C. C ann and Merrill c t I Ier r At t tho the tho op opening of or his address Dr 01 t I spoke of ot the duty of or water Investigations in Utah Then he pro- pro to point out some ome mistakes that are re being made Irrigators In Utah are using from three to four tour a feet acre re of or water a year I 1 when from ten temi to twenty t inches would Fe be sufficient ho he said Investigations noW V he said ald are arc so iso advanced that it In n easily be he a ascertained xi- xi di match how much water rater should be he used I i when the tho character of oC the land is known 1 f Tho time is here to look Into tho the Ir- Ir future he ito continued We Ye must economically or we will over over- and ruin our crops as Babylon 1 did in the tho eari early days A great t many mam canals in Utah have a leakage of CO GO Per cent and It is to bo be deplored that though our amid hardships were able to dig the tho canals we cannot afford if ford to conserve this leakage The time Is here also for a a. now engineer en en- an Irrigation engineer who shall be a farmer Carmer a water master a a. civil cl engineer and a student of or of the tho dut duty of water Without digging another another another an an- other main canal or increasing the reservoir capacity It should be possible pos pea sible sibie irrigate to-irrigate an area twice the size of the time Irrigated section of or Utah 1 Dr Widtsoe spoke of ot the plan for tor reclaiming the time salt s. flats west of or Salt Lake jake by the time drainage measure It can canIo Io accomplished at nt the cost of oC 16 I an acre he sal said d. d |