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Show BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT LAUNCHED IN EMERY Castledale, Oct. 1 Another ln-mense ln-mense Irrigation project In the Greci river county has been launched, Tt state land board haa granted the application appli-cation of the Green River Irrigatlcs company for the temporary segrep-tlon segrep-tlon of upwards of 165,000 acres d arid lands on either side of the Grecs River in Grand anJ Emery counties. Tho company proposes to obta!'J water by building a diverting d&a twenty or thirty miles up the Greca river from the first upper acreage and carry the water by gravity ditches ditch-es and flums down cither side of the stream to the land. As the pipe lice on the west will cross the San Rafael river and at the crosning point pumping plant will be erected to Irrigate Irri-gate land that otherwise never wouli he reclaimed, it Is contended. The company proposes to spend something some-thing like $5.000,0r0 to put water co the land, it Is asserted, $20,000 cf which already has been expended 1: making preliminary surveys and thi like, and at this time there are severi engineers In tho field The compaxj under the withdrawal agreement ec tered Into, must appear before tie land board every three months ani show that progress is being made la the surveys. READ THE CLASSIFIED PAGJ |