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Show 141 to prove it3 right, and so acquire prior rights in the streams forming tha source of supply. Tha accompanying diagram ahows graphically the rate in which the land waa being placed under cultivation. Tho sudden expansion, due to the loaaing campaign, was a severs tax on tha facilities of tha local Irrigation foroe, as it waa necessary to construct laterals and turn-outs for all tha new land brought undar oulti vation. Whlls funds for the purpose may hava boon provided in tha estimates of tha preceding two years, it was impossible to fore-Bee the great scarcity of labor and tha increased ooat of both labor and aefcarial, due to tha Bar* This limit ad the work to tha barest essentials, and the installation of such nocasaary adjuncts to 3eocesaiu.l operation, as telephone and measuring boxes were compelled to wait until mora funds were available. Type of Lessee a:- The type of tha ranchers of the Uintah Project, including the lessees, is tint poouliar to any new irrigation projoot. The promise of aheap land, and a new Start in a now country, attracts men from all stations of life, who for some reasons are no t satisfied with thair lot. Paw, unless they are farmers, realise tha comparatively large amount 141 |