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Show / 0. ordinary still in tho science of faming; that hi3 lend "was capable of. producing a crop, and that adoquato preparation had been mado for successful f arming* then it la evident that the cause of the crop failure does not rest with the Twatar-uaer, bat must bo sought, in some othdc direotion* Under these conditions it nay bo found that the failura 037 was due- to a period of extreme drought}, or to tha destruction of a head-gato or other canal structure by high viator, or to coax-a other cause over which neither tha United States nor tha lessee had. control. To determine in any particular instance -which aauEf^ or coiabination of causes waa responsible for tha failure^ is a difficult problem, particularly so after one or moro years have elapsed. It requires rot only an intervias -sith the , claimant and a oareihl inspection of his land, but a general •'.. ___aowladge of the conditions effecting irrigation, and a Teiyw . definite raid aa: standing* of the Uintah Irrigation Project, and it might well h&-axiea. that a Commission might pl3ce itself in..-' possession of cQLl available data, and still find it impossible to determiz-b* tho cause or caaaos of orop failures of 1917. DS^HlPTIOtf OP 2 SI UiaAa IBEIOArII02f H.0J3XT. 2he Uintah Irrigation Project covers a part of the agricultural araa cf the fonaer Uintah Indian Hoaervation, and 13 located in the Uintah Basin In Duchesne and Uintah Counties in north-eastern Utah, 9 |
