Show I BIG SCH MEA ME-A Reservoir Covering Twenty tour Square Miles An Irrigation Company Proposes to Expend Co Quarter of a Million Dollars Of the numerous vast schemes for reclaiming re-claiming the arid lands of Utah which sprang in the wake of the irrigation congress con-gress of ayear ago none promise to add more to the agricultural wealth of the territory ter-ritory than the project undertaken by the Leamington Water and Land Irrigation company with offices in the Commercial block The proposition to which this company is directing its resources is the buirding of an Immense reservoir in Sanpeto county to store the surplus waters of the Savior river and to utilize it for irrigation purposes in Juab and Millard counties They have found a natural basin in which at a small expense they can construct a dam that will make a reservoir covering twenty four acres of land and store a vast quantity of water The dam will be situated on the Sevier river lit teen miles south of Juab and Hood a large portion of Payetto and Dover products pro-ducts Having secured the surplus water during the wet season the channel the Sevier river will be utilized as u part of the canal system and tho water taken through it to the high benches in Millard county where it will be distributed in lateral lat-eral ditches to the farms There are in this untyalone nearly five hundred thousand thou-sand acres subject to irrigation by this system sys-tem but the projectors estimate that the waters already not appropriated will irrigate irri-gate but half of it By constructing a small canal enough water can be drawn out of the Sevier to reclaim valuable land in Round valley Juab county but this is a small part of the proposition I This enterprise has been quietly prosecuted prose-cuted for more than a year but the stringency strin-gency of tho money market prevented active ac-tive operations The surveys have been made and complete maps drawn and these have been filed with the government in compliance with the now act of Congress governing such matters Negotiations for the sale of the companys bonds are pro pressing favorably and big American capitalists cap-italists to use the phrase of the polite sec rotary Mr Dioterle tiara in tow Allen G Campbell is the president of the company Ed Richards vicepresident and William Dieterlo secretary and treasurer treas-urer The company estimate that it will require re-quire 300000 to complete the work according accord-ing to the plans |