The politics of homesteading in the early twentieth-century American West: the origin and supersession of the Enlarged homestead act and the stock raising homestead act

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181 Governing 508'd had firmed its of the Salt Lru:e stand on 'the City Chamber of Cownerce proposal and had adopted a resolution to be sent to the Utah delegation in Congr e ss and to the governors, mayors, 2nd chambers of commerce" throughout the Rocky I.:ountain States urging their support of the to resolution and the their tion respective delegations premised was mission--that for the communication of that support recent upon the unne ce and the the matter of remedial and resolution was The resolu­ conclusions of the Flood Com- saary de nudat.Lon floods very in Congress. peril by marl was of future responsible ones. preventive maintenance In the explicitl That the urevention of such flooc.s in the Rocky I.:ot..:ntain-" is v:i thin the ccrrtr-o.I of man by an eXne!lditure not large in a national sense, but beyond t21e ab i.Li, ty of any se:r>arate city or county or state, not only from lack of sufficient means 'but 2lso from lack of nroner orgcnization for such undertakings and also from dearth of the technical knowLe dge that such under-t ak.i.ngs imply. Forest Service is 'well aware of these conditions and it has the organization, the data, the ability, and knows the methods of procedure requisite for such revegetation of de­ nuded critical areas that supply the floods as would nrogressively eliminate the floods and finally render safe from future losses the towns and lie below the de-vegetaed watersheds. 3 That the facts and valleys4that At stke, according 4JResolution, to the resolution, was the prosperity Governing Board of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce to Geore H. Dern, Utah State Archives, he resolution is undated but is Dern Corresuondence File. filed in the correspondence of November-, 1931.