The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-04
I2RJCATORS SHUT
al OTHERS OUT
Only Farmers Will Control State
Irrigation Association.
oqr VIEW OF WAFER ISSUE
f.-
GETTING IN OLroBER TO PASS
ON PROPOSED Law.
oqC VIEW OF WAFER ISSV5

r-+ar Vas formed t-s-el te5 Oh '---
] -s+,r-7e5 convention of irrigators
,Fz Assembly hall III is not
-7- bind ~ association the most ear
- 20 conservative friends o. the
had worked for, but it is slll
5 f. will be- The powerful effective
-~,zqaar OF which all the water
..-.s-s nj the state feel a pressing
-,-.tss5 Of the broad. active associa-
-arrazsrting all Of the varied
~ interests of the state, the dele
t,5v will be composed exclusively .
= t--fpat3rs. representatives. OF muni- T
-rtias boards OF health, the state /
.-.-s-sf-v Agricultural college and the .
----z-r.aI club of salt Lake. Power .
--g-sss u=fng water and mining and F..
1-sv companies conveying alter or F..
-.rr It for purposes ot.er taan Iof .
-75-s0n and the livestock and dairy
..a-fau5ns are excluded from repre- .
s1arol. ,-.- /
-ss ~a.e whereby the exclusive basis .
~ rzpr. eutati0n was determined was f.
ts4 Rv viva y0ce TIE proponents Of /
q. more liberal plan 0s representation f.
-5-s in che majority bit on a r0l. call .
~ .mntfas the fearful farmers carried .
XIII r0.ut by the narrow margin Of /
TO DO
Among those who expressed their /
-srrafntment at the narrow policy /
s7araf Tor were State Engineer Do |
-gs President Abel John Evans, !
es7-ra Halvorsan, Caleb Tanner. Dan /
b Harrington. Judge POIapp. NJ. A. /
nsrghsrtv. ". ii. Seegmiller, Heber J
par1i1n James Gardner. Seymour B. /
Y-uug Judge Booth and Fisher Harris. /
Tss champions of the exclusion senti- .
Ysaf were 3. +. Luke. l. Z. ThOreSen. !
william Howard, j.. r.. Chopper and /
Y. D. Livingston.
Convention Gets to Work.
II vas nearly IL O'Clock when the
convention was called TO order by
President Evans. The first business
for consideration was the draft of the
constitution of the permanent associa-
ton 20 be known as the Irrigation
congress o. Utah. submitted by Chair
man D0remUs for ths committee ap-
pointed at the convention a month ago /
% perform this duty. The draft sub
mI,ted was the same in substance as
was syu0psiZed ia Wednesdays Her
lH Az once she proposed constitution
vas STACKED by the farmers. who de-
c.aT5d for an organization which would
represent no interest i'm the waters of
Che s.ate other than their own as irri-
gators.
Delegates who erteTta ned mora lib
ta. views warned the convention that
The association would amount TO moth
i1E in welding an influence for the
Elvaucemeut Of the irrigation interests /
unless a wider range were covered so
as 20 take in an water interests. IT
was apparent from The first that no /
clJ.cmen or sheepmen and none of
NE representatives. of power, mining /
and railway companies, even remotely
interested in irrigation. would be wei
some as delegates in the congress.
All that saved representation 10 the
commercial club of SAL Lake was a
p.as b. Fisher Harris that it is pledged /
70 promote the irrigation interests of
lae stale along with Utah's other com
LtIea- ana Industrial interests
lne prospective revenues of the IS
ISOLATION we're cut down to the mini
mum and ia various other ways the
dratt OF the constitution was so amend
cd that when finally adopted II was
scarcely recognizable i'm comparison
'lll the original draft.
-Ae counties voting to give the con-
t-sss The widest range Of beneficial in
,lsn2e were Box Elder. Davis. Juab.
4o'geH, Rich. salt Lake, Sew sum
Ll Iooeie Utah and Wayn The
~-esates from Beaver. Cache. rbon
--Aeiy, Iron, Kane, Willard. pete
,'llah Washington. Wasatch ana We
5 Eo.ed for representation to only
Legislative Needs.
With The vexed question of organiza-
yum olJ OF the way, the convention
l-l7sled 20 consider the report Of the
,----- .'ee charged with The task of
.---s a measure for relief for the
te-5l users OF the state. for enactment
7 'Ar next legislature The rorouoit-
~ report stated that in view of the
,--. .,l l.Lile al its disposal. and the inn
.-'silee Of the subject. it vou15 he
81, s>io-e To- submit a comprebeDsi,-s
t- az this SINE ''l''i' 'e
t.-- report added that il is apparent
'"e proposed law ought to faI-a
OF the following necessities.
IN. The cres ton os a sUitqbIa +rf-
&c &c -.f The ar jUdiCation # existing
,..1-Ihe recording Of surb rfs7,+-
r. ,-t orderly transfer of them
--..IH No rDrrsT.rfa &c..
For-.t -. waters IN an orderly way.
q s----l--l-- apporUonment of water
nd -aange with such adiudirarfon
' appropriations.
rss,s4 '.,s,'linlItlee.s report further sug-
r7zas r --.- .'sdom 81 making the pro
vsrf.s - Jaw -0ily representative of the
or,r b. -'l- interests of the state for
r.r.- u 81 1'iag IL would receive more
The Isri.7-.. ...'i' ana win the favor of
fss -. .--,-.o.nmended 5y the committee
live -. .--- was referred TO the execu-
5f-s-...-- --'-,ee of the CONGRESS- with
f-sr..--..-s TO enlarge the committee IN
rrs -s g- me bin by the addition Of
re s5I from each county. Later
Fa'r 5-5--t.Ne committee DESIGNATED it,
r-i--s. .---I.s a-Lernatas. as this com
lsrs. -- -.s+ss-l.lat5t with Chairman Don
NH ~ .'s-hal seven drafters. ME lin
15-y-ss- reported at p meeting of The
s-ess next October. va '-'I
IN Control of the Congress.
late in the after, ~, =.
srs., t.--oea5dsd TO TIE election ~ ~
d .s- -rle committee of the rorgrs -..5
asis -'sF county, O.. Z. White s1rs-- 4.
S-ss+ .. a. =. lotion. Box Elder n Ii
rs5 r- ana j. P. Holmgren. Cache y
C. }f.T--- and Peter Barson. carbon D Fl
David s.. ana j. H. Wbitmore re. ' Davis Is
erz---- s ,1 and Hyrum S-s 1r--' ~ ~,
IgEs-S VILLAIN Howard and B " p /,
Bsri5r. non l. Ugiah Jones ana ;
Wrrb...' 'gao. J.. W. Paxmsn ana r /
ars So rs Kane. Thomas Cban -'f, pi
Cro7-e.. H. ~ "ooHey. lIiUard + p
VT 7 ana @. H. WHcksr- 40. ~ +
Q l.s 5.'eh and j. r. Porter B -C a. ~ +
GeorE-- - 3 70 A. c.. Cali. san -, "a
Sa7rs,s Y Lambert and #. p P l-ias,
Son. 'ss Henry BeaI and Iac5i Ta5g
rl5-o.as Christensen. S-T 5-,,i,-5E ana .
~ MS and John Pack. To1eis - 5IeI
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