CAEL ASP ISECEES av eek eal 
IRRIGABLE LANDS OF THE VALLEY OF THE 
SEVIER RIVER. 
By CAPTAIN C. BE. DUTTON. 
As an agricultural region, the valley of the Sevier River and of its 
tributaries is one of the most important in Utah. The amount of arable 
land which may be reached by the waters of the stream is very much 
larger than the stream can water advantageously, and the time is probably 
not far distant when all the water that can be obtained will be utilized 
in producing cereals, and there is probably no other region in Utah where 
the various problems relating to the most economic use of water will be 
solved so speedily. It is, therefore, a region of unusual interest, regarded 
in the light of the new industrial problems which the irrigation of these 
western lands is now bringing forward. Fortunately, there is a smaller 
prospect of difficulty and obstruction in the settlement of the legal contro- 
versies which must inevitably arise elsewhere out of disputes about water 
rights than will be encountered in other regions, for the Mormon Church is 
an institution which quietly, yet resistlessly, assumes the power to settle 
such disputes, and the Mormon people in these outlying settlements yield 
to its assumptions an unhesitating obedience. Whatever the church deems 
best for the general welfare of its dependencies it dictates, and what it 
dictates is invariably done with promptitude, and none have yet been 
found to resist. This communal arrangement has been attended with great 
success so far as the development of the water resources are concerned, 
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