, 1922-10-25
THE SUNSHINE DAM
A GREAT NEED SAYS
DRY FARMER lotto
Lower GreybuIl Favors Build.
ing OF Reservoir And Sees
No Danger To Settlers
In Big Dirt Dam
Editor Cody Enterprise:

loH ny ". ID. Mdnnd against the ReSer-l
voir to be constructed by the people,
SO we might have ample water to ir-
rigate with. Now l am going to give
you the ranchers' side of it for the
reservoir.
In the first place, the progress of
this country is blocked by not having
sufficient water to irrigate during the
summer months. Now Mr.. o.. B.
Mann takes the stand that this is a
death trap and our farms should not
be taxed to construct it.
l can't see where this is a death
trap when the very best efficient en-
gineers that can be had have passed
on 1t and report it safe.
Men who have spent all their lives
doing such work should know whether
or not this dam would hold-in fact.
l don't, think any rancher who ever
had any experience doing engineering
work should call this a death trap,
when he don't know what he is talk
ing about.
Now then. let's look at the tax part
of this. Isn't it right to build a prof.
ect like this where everyone is inter
ested to to tax our homes to build it.
Now, l have lived in this country
and watched the progress of this val
ley for the past thirty-one years, and
this country has been built to the
highest standard that it can go under
the existing circumstances. We have
one Of the richest valleys here, per-
haps, in the world. Situated in the
healthiest places on the globe, this
vale could support ten times and per-
haps twenty times as many people as
live here today. as there are thous-
ands of acres of good land that does
MT produce just for lack of water.
1t is a fact that every dollar we put
in to this Sunshine Reservoir, we will
country will progress. Now the COM
m~issioners whom the people have e.
lected to handle our affairs in regards
to this dam hive done all necessary
work in having this soil analized and
also test wells put down where the
dam is to be located to see If the earth
would hold water. All is satisfac-
tory, now we as a people the majority
of us want a Reservoir and feel the
need of it badly. as we nave seen our
crops burn up many a time for want
OF writer.
Just a few years age we lost most
all our crops in a time which caused
Jus to lose thousands of dollars.
don't know but what we lost
enough that one year to build this res
ervoir.
Every year we lose enough to pay
the interest or the money 1t would
cost to build it But we can get this
dam and ample water for this valley.
We will have a railroad and the man
ayers of sugar beet companies are
eagerly watching this country and v
will have large Sugar factories and
thousands of acres of land will come
under cultivation, hat today lies in
waste. We a see this country has
a great future If we but put our shout
der to the wheel and bnild this dam
which will bring prosperity to u
homes for thousands more families.
Now there never was any great enter
prise built or any great work done
without some opposition, but let us
not be, fossils, but let us go at the
greater works of life with brotherly
love and keep one Of our Savior's
greatest commandments, Love thy
neighbor as myself"
Let's build this lam that thousands
of families may find a home In this
valley and prosperity reign where now
poverty exists, because we are short
of water. Again the writer, Mr.. o. B..
Mann, states no person shall be de-
prived of life and property without
due process of law. Now. l would
like to ask my friend, Mr.. Mann, If he
has been asleep for the past few years
since the reservoir has been in courts
and It is the will of the people to
build It. Now, the feeling in the low
er end of this valley is almost unani-
nous in favor of the reservoir.
God so made the location by nature
that we might store water for future
use, that his people might enjoy pros
perity. We do moi get as much water
now during the the latter part Of the
season as we did fifteen or twenty
years AGO., because years ago we had
the snow back. So it would distribute
It out over a longer period. but today
the mountains are barren and bare in
the fall of the yea because they are
overstocked, the ~shrubbery as we'll