The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-10
UTAH CONGRESS
OF IRRIGATION
IS ORGANIZED
Sixty Delegates Meet at Com
mercial Club to Discuss
Matters of Vital Import
ance to States Future.
CONSERVATION OF
WATER is URGED
Permanent Organization to
Be Effected at Fall Meeting
Through Committee Sc
lected Yesterday.

A statewide campaign OF education
on the subject Of the proper use of wa
ter for irrigation was launched at a
meeting at the Commercial club yester-
day. The Utah Irrigation and Drain
age congress. was formed, with it's ad-
ministration placed temporarily in the
hands of an executive committee. Next
fall the organization will be perfected.
The meeting was attended by sixty
men deeply interested in the reclama-
ton Of land by irrigation and drainage.
These irrigatoTs came from every part
Of the state, some from a great dis
tance. Notable among the latter may
be mentioned Representative Ephrain
Dastrup of Wayne county, who lives
ut point remote from railroad.
Interest Keen.
The interest in the movement was
keen Tho various speakers who dis
cussed questions bearing directly upon
the vital question of water uses in Utah
were heard with closest attention. The
meeting was the result 81 step taken
recently by the irrigation and drain
age committee OF the Commercial club.
Of which Oscar L. Cox is chairman. Mr..
Cox presided at yesterdays meeting.
w. G. Stark was secretary,
At the conclusion OF the general con
ference business meeting was held at
which . permanent committee was ap-
pointed by the chairman as follows:
Oscar H. Cox, Salt Lake; T. L. Allen,
Summit county; H. n. Shelley, Salt
Lake; Ephraim Dastrup, Wayne coun-
ty, and John L. Bourne, Davis county.
This committee will take up and press
forward the campaign Of education
among farmers, irrigation copmany Of
fcials and other users of water It will
collect data and records concerning
stream measurements and water flow.
In the fall it will call the congress to-
gether again.
Adopted.
1t is proposed that the committee ap-
pointed Yesterday will work in coniunc-
ton with the Utah Conservation COM
mission and the agricultural college A
resolution adopted at the business meet
ing sets forth in q general way the pur-
poses Of the movement and what is
hoped to be accomplished. The resolu-
ton follows;
Resolved. That the United States
department of agriculture and water
research branch OF the geological sur
yey and inc Utah Agricultural col
iege be requested to work for the
publication of any bulletins relating
to tie measurement and use or wa
ter in newspapers circulating among
water users; that prizes be offered
to pupils In the schools for the best
records OF the amount OF time put
in and the methods of cultivation and
OF the amount OF water used; that this
congress use its efforts 10 get pri-
vate individuals. the schools and
state and county governments TO Of
fer such prizes; that the study OF ag-
riculture be encouraged in the public
schools.
Resolved. That an effort be made
10 finance demonstrators who can
visit various sections OF the state
ter and keep records and the amounts
applied and to advise them how much
TO use. obtaining. for this purpose
from the national, state and county
governments, commissions OF corpor-
atoms and individuals money for this
end. To accomplish this purpose be
1t
Resolved. and recommended, That
a permanent committee be selected,
including the chairman OF tho con.
gress. TO accomplish the purposes OF
tho preceding resolutions, to ar
range for cooperation between the
national. state and local governments
and commissions and private corpor-
ations and individuals that informa-
ton go secured be reported to the
permanent committee and published
for the benefit OF those interested;
that this permanent committee oe
empowered TO call future meetings
with recommendations for tho perrna-
nent- organization OF the congress-.