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<br />~- <br /> <br />R.c;POJ'J: O~' 'rEX COLOdAD0 rlIVt'R CQWU:1,jION <br /> <br />SXSSION lih~D AT THt SfAft CA~If~L OF UTAH, <br /> <br />\ <br />II <br /> <br />March 27th and 28th, 1922. <br />(Session of March 27th) <br />GOVX~jOR MABbY: Mr. Secretary, members of the Ccmmission and <br /> <br />gent leme n: <br /> <br />i!:xactly three-quarters of a century ago the Morman Pioneers <br /> <br />. <br />came into this I"allay, and turning aside the waters of the moun- <br /> <br />tain streams, founded Anglo-Saxon irrigation. i!:l"ery season since <br /> <br />that July day in 1847 has witnessed the steady growth of this <br />system of soil oultil"ation throughout the arid Wast. This first <br />attack upon the smaller water sources was followed by dil"ersion <br />of the ril"ers flowing into the Salt !""ke and other like bodies <br />_ of the Great Basin, In due course, settlements sprang up, and <br />cities came into being, each having as its chief support some <br />such supply of the refreshing fluid. 'i'his commonwealth is a <br />direct result of irrigation. Without ita civilized people <br />could not possibly exist in this region. <br /> <br />From that humble crigin proceeded the del"elopment of the <br /> <br />agricultural resources of the seventeen of the western states, <br /> <br />some ~9 ~greater, some to a lesser degree. And whstel"er lessons <br /> <br />have been learned in there sections are the outcome of the ex- <br /> <br />periences, the rel"erses, the temporary failures of the men who <br /> <br />built this inland empire. Whatever syster.lS have been succe'ss- <br /> <br />S.L. <br /> <br />e. <br />