Show STATE f A RESERVOIR IS BEING PUSHED State Engineer Caleb Tanner Tells of Work on Project Near Hatch RECLAIMS GREAT TRACTS G Garfield County Land to Be Made MacIc Fertile When Scheme Is Finished The Time hits has commenced construe construe- tion 1 on Ott tho lar large c reservoir to h bo ho built hunt south Routh of or the th onn on n on one half miles town tonn 0 of ci r Hatch roun county t The b beginning of tit It work worle on this project pro plO t jec-t marks s the tho commencement of or tt large Irrl Irrigation a I schemes ami anti menus means that t thousands of ot acres of oC n arid ril st state t I will be hO reclaimed Since tin Jt I In lug Ing of LImO act th reservoir land grant fund fUlli hn has lain the present ork orl marking Its fit st execution Ion The reservoir land Inn grant fund con con- I f-I ista t of mOnt moneys YM received by hy the stole state I for fOI the sale of or acres acre of selected state land which are arc to bo Ie In u used for forthe the tho construction of permanent water I for Cor Irrigation r purposes l Cur After CurI I the hI f obstruction construction ion of the th the theland land lanel to U be he Irrl Irrigated Is to IJ be hO so sold let at nt t public auction and ancl the proceeds to revert re revert re- re vert rt bacic to the fund Tanner lanner state engineer j ha has re returned ro- ro turned from Crom from the thc reservoir site In Carfield Garfield Gar Gal field county count and reports excavation on time tho dam lin to have 1 commenced Mr Tanner Tan Tati- tier ner says ays- Will Cuter roer lion u A ores ITCH The TIt lam dam will h be he located locate 1 one CIne nail and one-half one miles l' l south of if Hatch hl county It t will or evor a surface of fion acres and null contain a 1 storage capacity of t 1000 1 leet cL Work orl u upon p n tilt tho title site lt will amount to i OOl Tho ho damn 1 will Int Intersect pct r-pct canyon canon It will he bo constructed eon con of or earth parth GO feet hl high h anti and feet alon along the top and will cost ORt GO- GO 1100 1 Ott The object of or the tho mat is li to hold holdback back the Hood flood water of or tho the S S iOl vior river from April until Juno June The Irrl irrigation atlon season tie Hegins Jn tho ti of May ta and ends nd about the first of or September Tho tO canal will ho bo taken out of oC tho tito river rl 15 Ii mills miles below helow tho dam It SC will willI he I an n O miles s long carry carr 10 cubic feet per pcr second col tutu and cost it EL I is in intended In- In totaled tended that It will Irrigate ate COO con acres neres of oC laud land situated fl upon what hat in is known as bench This land lanti belongs to time the government o and anti has ln esa 1 en selected lJ by the state for tor the thC present project It will wil Ij be jc sold at public lie auction jon at in III the tho spring hl of oC 1008 1908 under the terms term of ot time the law that controls the tho reservoir oh land 1 grant rant fund tumid The Tho land will b be sold sohl together t with Hh tho the water 11 right ht and the tho water r rl right ht will bo he I pertinent per r- r to tn tho time In land nil The payments to the time state tote h by the purchasers purchaser will he divided dit into ten tn annual payments I Will I I Ite Iter 11 Ii r i n to I ii ii ii 0 crier Time The nr first t pa will bo ho m made mado lo on the tho day the thc land IK is purchased purchase the auction auction tion da day and tho thu deferred pa payments ments annually thereafter with Interest atthe at nt atthe the rate of If ii p per r cent tnt At t tho the expiration thIn lion of ten years the title HUt to the land lind anti the thC reservoir pas passes s 's to iho land owners o The state hoard board has Practical Practical- Iv h- ha a agreed with tho thu local that the purchaser el shall not exceed 20 O per acre or In other words word 2 pet per year for tor ten years H T with tilt tho rate rato of C G j nor por cent Int Interest re l It h Is probable however howe that the price per aero acre will come ome under un un- un tier der 20 O. O The rue rules tIcs governing o ernin the salo Rno of or the tho theland theland land lanel will he tho ns CUI tho those 1 governing o the acquisition of of-ng- of mill land und under t the general federal fed fed- fedJ era eral law not more mere than HJO Ii acres h hlIn heIng he- he In Ing sold to an any one individual Any citizen of oC tho the United States State will willbe willbo bo he ell eligible to buy th the laud land The work orl is iR being done dono Ion tinder the direction nf or the general I land lant board |