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Show NOW A RESIDENT OF UIAHM A". A. Frlese, a Tornicr resident of Ogden, Is In the city spending i few dayf with relatives and friends. Mr. Frlese 13 now keeping a moun:nln road-homse at the divide between Daniel's Dan-iel's canyon and the Strawberry river, riv-er, u few miles east of Ilr-ber city. This is the wagon road traveled by ptoplo going to, and from, the Uintah reservation country which was opened open-ed to settlement in the year 1905. There Is considerable 1 ravel over the Mountain highway. The Rio Grande company has a branch railroad leading lead-ing through Trovo canon from Provo city to lleber city, making tho latter place a hfai'j' distributing point for tho Uintah country. Mr. Frlese states that work Is progressing pro-gressing rapidly on the Strawberry' vnlley reclamation project which is being conducted by the United States government Tho government pro-joses pro-joses to make of Strawberry vnlley. the south end of tho volley, a huge reservoir for the conservation of the waters of Strawberry river for the reclamation of 60,000 acres of arid land In the southern part of Utah rountv.. To do this. It is necessary ot tunnel through the mountain at the s head of Diamond Fork, a branch of Spanish Tork river, a distance of three miles so as to furnish an outlet for th impounded waters of the valley Tho government is working three shifts of men, fays Mr Frise there being twelve men on a shift. The tunnel work has been in progress for about four years ami It will not be finished until imr?. The lands to be Irrigated are near the cities of Span- ! if-h Fork, Payson and Santaquin. |