HUSA March 6 2026 - Hawkan Cornia

We're talking to Hawkan Cornia and you're from Randolph, Utah?

The outmost of the land in Woodruff, Utah, which is about 10 minutes south of Randolph.

And that Bear River that goes down on through Cache Valley and on out this great salt lake, right?

That's another fight over water because it starts in Wyoming and it's Wyoming's water and then they built the reservoir right on the border from the reservoir. It runs into Utah, which is where we irrigate out of. And then from Utah it goes back into Wyoming, then into Idaho, and then it loops around and comes and dumps into the Salt Lake. So it's kind of a big fight there because the people in Salt Lake are wanting to fill the lake up because they're getting dust on their cars. And meanwhile we're fighting to keep all the water we can here so we can grow crops and make a living and feed all the people we need to. That's another blessing too. You know this bare river running through our place is good because like I say we always have a place to water. There's some guys who if they don't own right on the Bear River and they're off, you know they only have water so many months of the year so they've either got a whole water to those places or dig a well. But like I say we're pretty fortunate to where we don't really have to worry about stalk water because the bare river runs right through that. They do say that Woodruff is a well-drillers dream because they find water more often than they don't. If you go down 300 feet pretty much anywhere you can get water. The problem is is how much and how good you know if you're trying to drill a well for a pivot and you're needing a couple second feet that's kind of hard to do but if you're just wanting to house well or like I say 30 gallons a minute to put cows on that's pretty easy to find here especially in the low bottoms most of the wells on my dad's place are only 30 or 40 feet deep.