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Show ' A PROMISING UNDERTAKING. Not less important to Ogden than the Weber county irrigation 1 district which has been advanced to the stage of complete orcraniza-tion. orcraniza-tion. is the forming of the D;:vis counn irrigation district, with thv I alloting of water by the state engineer All that part of Davis county lying south of the Weber river j J bench land, under a full service of water, could be made to produce H crops double as larjro as are now yielded, and the increased harvests i would be of vast benefit to Ogden, as nearly all the territory as far 1 ' as Kaysville is tributary to Ogden. I According to the plans worked out by A. F Parker, chief enpi- ! neer, the reservoir at Echo would o-.t s?j.:;:i onn, would be nr. V feet high and store 61,500 acre-feet. The canal to carry the storage j would come out of Weber canyon at an elevation 'I'll feet above the I Davis and Weber counties canal and call for an expenditure of $1,-j $1,-j 500,000. I This is a total of ,000. whii-h though high is not prohibi- j tie. In this district, land now well watered and most fertile is sell' j ing as high as $600 an acre I Whenever farnunp must depend on irrigation, it is a measure I of insurance to have a supply of water which is dependable Here I in Weber county farming had been carried on for thirty years on a I : haphazard basis, until now the farmers have decided to make pro- visions against dry years and are proceeding to give to every acre I of tillable ground water sufficient to mature crops It should have 1 been done years ago. j: Davis county farmers are following the example of the Weber ounty irrigators, and soon the cultivated areH will be doubled and greater prosperity than has been experienced in the past will be en- joyed in all the region from Willard on the north to Farmington on the south. The number of homes -will be increased and, with the improved im-proved conditions on the land, numerous new industries will be es- i tablished to afford better markets for the products of the soil. |