The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-03
OBJ ,JEC I IONS
TO W AT Err
SCHEME
ARE MADE BY C. M. CLAY, A Lo.
CAL LAND OWNER.
Opposes the Plan to Mortgage Land
Which Does Not Require Water
Other Protests.

Editor Standard; Among our neigh.
bors in the northern i;art of Cache
Valley Is the Oneida irrigation dis
trict, and many farmers there claim
that they are hopelessly involved in
debt because they went into q big ir-
rigation scheme with their eyes shut,
or allowed someone else TO do their
thinking for them. You can buy farms
very cheap up there, but they Will be
subject TO a longwinded debt.
Just across the valley from us. In
the neighborhood OF Corinne, many
acres OF good farm land have been
! ruined by putting a surplus of water
on land that God was giving all the
moisture IL should have That land
also is for sale cheap.
Tuesday was gala day for us farm
ers, free tickets to Lagoon. a brass
band concert, quartet hired to sing
Peter Piper Picked a Peck" etc TO
us, and people who have heretofore
given their attention TO the getting to-
gether OF coin OF the realm. in large
quantities. and owning the latest mod
el automobiles. suddenly realizing
what worthy people the farmers are.
were giving their entire attention 10
our affairs. They want US 10 have
water Tor our land and they want to
furnish II. so we won't have TO worry
our brains about ii. and so some one
who does not love US (as they dol.
won't get a chance TO SKIN us. We
were assured that there is "No Niger
In the woodpile." or course. such a
thing had not occurred TO US but this
made us feel good, as il proved TO us
that we and our interests were being
looked after. There was nice pro.
gram, and people who have weignty
things TO think Of told us that they
were doing this in the interest OF our
children and our children'S children,
And | suppose that while they take
an interest in our children now, they
will take the principal from them
later, If we keep the interest paid up.
To me, this lemon that Is being
handed us. coupled with chapter "a
of the laws of Utah. passed In 1909,
looks like a mischievouS and very
clumsily gotten up graft BY the way
who has read this law? | asked one
OF our representatives who had voted
on 1t for information regarding It, and
he had not had time to look into il,
so | borrowed a copy and read up on
1t myself and while am not eXtraor-
dinnrily bright. II was not hard for
me to understand that this law on a
district is formed) deprives mo OF the
right TO decide whether or not | want
water for my land. For instance, hav-
ing $50 acres of land, part OF which
and perhaps all of which, Will be in.
cluded In the district now under dis
cussion, thirty acres OF this land has
water rights and so, believe, is eX'
empt. OF the $50 remaining about
200 is land that will raise good crops
without irrigation, and that ditch wat
er would be a positive Injury TO. and
IT. Ia a fact that have refused to put
water on a good portion of it at $50
per acre and for the balance of my
land | can secure the hest OF water
right. for less than one-half of SIPS
per acre (the estimated price in this
district job.
There is a provision in this Law al
lowing land owner Ito file petition
with board OF directors praying that
his land may be excluded from said
district" The answer to this Is that
eli the directors deem 1t not for the
best interest of the district said pc
tition shall be denied" Please note
chat II is not the best interest of the
party owning the land but the best in
crest of the district that is TO be con
sideEed. l am informed that water