Show h a 11 D ar davis vl county awn V t sa I 1 lose L RAIFF th the high H gh y line L lal hie canal C a I 1 I 1 citizens of davis and weber counties will determine within the next thirty days the sue cess or failure of the be proposed canal today the citizens citizen of davi 4 county are face to face faca with th the e shall we secure or ose lose the line canal within the 0 next few weeks tins this question will be answered one way or anther anil and th abo record will stand to the credit or discredit of the citizenship of davis bavis county three times during the last 7 twelve years enterprising capital has as tried to promote this irrigation project which brigham M young I 1 on 0 behold beheld with prophetic vision a fl fifty yens ago the present Is i the fourth attempt the pro oters now are utah men interested te in the development of resources they are ready ady with the capital their plans lans are stable and equitable ahey hey are considerate of the ahti of tile the land ov oviers ners it if ahe project fails now the iland eners are responsible and avis county f forever arev er waives waive her aim to the waters of the weber ver system the tights sights to aesa sa waters have been main ined for twelve years by tile the line ne directors of the dweber re kaber her butr company aften ten these rights have been preserved at lie heavy cavy expense to his is company and great pe personal bonal isk sk on tile part of the dire directors L toz 1 i hs success of the hi higan lina nal anal now will be a tu hese ese people and will re e eem any securities dep depolite depos osite itei e to old the water filings I 1 11 ivis anlys representatives on n h his loard ard of directors are joh job all G 1 barnes H J sheffield id ind ad res J H grant with 11 tl the access of the proposed C anal nal lie e efforts of these thebe men succeed c d sp so all iu ill all it is a 9 VO ue estion stion that conf confronts routs us the he izenson of davis county are e caa ll if 3 upon to exhibit their en enter rc rise ise the one thing that cha charac them as american c api cpi t as r extreme enterprise is an aa is athal element in the Americ american tn ennia ciui the american loves loneso 0 tAke and achieve grett jugs witness the establish lent ut of the transcontinental rait rai id d the erie canal and tb tag 1 anama ama canal the U S eption ion service alone has hodap todi I 1 uder det way twenty seven cirrio a on a projects involving the ex fend iture of tats T is spirit ul of enterprise is manifest lani fest in the industrial devel meat of every state in tile the uan nan each state has had iu its frn problems to solve and has ved them with remarkable ex dation us as the years have hav gone egone utah is today at the threshold her greatest development le djs ts coming slowly yet surely her own though western iga 0 tion sprang into existence utah still our neighboring ates tes have surpassed us in its e colorado has today three Q es as aa much land under canal has utah idaho has to lour or d a half times as much and corula Ailo ruia five times as much lis fact has thrown the balance trade in food products jj ii 0 or of rather than against these thes e ettes tes while utah pays for or fv effs iffs 1 A fifteen million dollars annually more than she receives for her food products product i but in spite of these facts utah is entering a greg great period of dev development e the strawberry project under the alie direction of the U S tiou service will open opan vast balds to settlement other minor I 1 projects in other parts of tane abe state are likewise promising in their results the hi high T h line canal through davis and weber counties is a conspicuous feature featured orthis vigorous reclamation tiou wave in utah it I 1 is important because the lands redeemed susceptible arp arg to a remarkably mar kably increased valuation since there the region gion lies near dear the two lar large ge cities of the state there is certainly no more desirable land for homes in utah and it is difficult to b say to what values suet such land will arise in the early days of this state brigham young 0 sent agents into D avis county to estimate its possibilities for settlement it was repol reported led to him that not more 0 thaia aff ty i auld subsist in the region today a half cen century tury later there are 2000 families in ia davis county and L much a aeb nf if the land is even fetu yet unexplored in th s next tet tey years ears th alie 3 parm population of dav dails I 1 county will unable double tolar r times its arc present sont annual production will be developed and a new social t and industrial life will spring into I 1 existence the coming coaling decade will unfold v vast ait benefits bened is for davis county if a system of I 1 irrigation is de for acres of land in this reg region anthe the increased product of the soil will be at least one and one halt half million dollars this amount will give n fifteen hundred families a thousand dollars lars each annually alou along 0 with this increased production will unfailingly come improved systems of market marketing ua and caring for the surplus pro ro ducts ot ol the soil tharbis Th ereis areis already under contemplation by utah capital a string n of canning factories and evaporators tobe to be constructed and ope operated rated between abrl 0 charn ham cit city and provo the bonsu consumption mation of this plat plan however however depended to a great extent ent upon t development the of I 1 ands ads not no now IV fa n use lat which arp are under proposed irrigation systems this land reclaimed and these thet e factories established utah will become an exporting acs ics state as far as food products are concerned con i berned the with wealth thus produced will remain in the state for its up building in g not pass out to capitalists in remote parts recognizing those these facts the ablest men in our commonwealth are operating cooperating co to promote this alis vas vast irrigation gation system following are the names of the officers and stockholders of the utah conservation co louis S hills president john dern vice president W W armstrong lot vice president 0 C beebe treasurer 0 1 H carlquist secie secretary tary thos R out I 1 ler chairman win R wallace W W armstrong john dern thos L allen alien 1 F bauer 0 0 beebe A W macarthur or W nibley geo F gibbs louis S hills directors sto stockholders W W armstrong thos L allen alien austin Bros Ashton jenkins co B F bauer john ak burt 0 OC C beebe W H bancroft chas S burton ton jas H brown john R barnes henry H blood john G M barnes john S bransford simon bamberger it T badger T R cutler john C cutler james chipman louis bohn N aw W clayton S L chip mao man A E E i cooper H P clarke C H carlquist Oarl quist A al cheney jos B P caine S Q cannon cannon john dern F A druehl J D vixon jos J daynes jr albert fisher F W fr francis ancis J F farrer jos geoghegak Geoghe 7 gaa byron groot groo J P gard gardner ner greenwald furn co lewis S rills hills W J halloran W S henderson holmes creek irrigation 0 co haight creek irrigation co hancock bros 0 S holmes G B holman W L hayes andrew jensen D C Jackli jackling ug J frank judge john jensen john johnson W F jensen david keith thus thos kearns geo D keysor kaysville Kays ville irah irrig co WD W D kiser geo gen C lambert wm lan lanton langton ton geo gen E Ivi marrill errill jas D our murdock D W S me J dabid 0 mckay jas H mays R C miller 0 P miller P W madsen geo gen W morgan R AV W nicol 0 geo T well dell 0 P overfield P F M orell J E pettit jas A pollock jas H paterson 0 W powers samuel park N T porter EH pierce W A rossiter W V rice ed rosenbaum W 0 rice W W riter geo gen romney A richter W M roylance roy lance H A john 0 sharp hyrum A silver E L sheets 0 J salisbury geo gen A snow H J sheffield C N strevell Sl revell L A simon inv dinv 00 geo G smith thos thosa J steed guy M sterling L N I 1 pres jos F smith P A wm spry pry sweet candy co ashby snow russell L tracy L L terry jas E talmage ezra T N taylor raylor A L thomas utah idaho su sugar suar M ar co A H henry wallace F J wescott M H walker T C webber walker bros dry good cut co thos weir jos S wells 11 W walker E B wicks H G whitney tuey 1 I E willey W N awil wili iiams lams A fred wey heber al wells chas W whitley already nearly hundred land owners in davis county have seen the light and have signed contracts to purchase water under the proposed tern tem they are water buyers in south davis county orlando W warner leo IAO J muir frank cleverly ancil C hatch win J boulton A andrew n howat et al mary C matson albert irvin P F fisher thomas luker john P benson beason paul botero allart allan carter elizabeth wines wm J harrison M I 1 J schmidt thomas harrison john H ellis E W anderson wm salter james howard mm alm rood reed mary cleverly henry W cleverly ernest A hayes chas J howard thomas A howard alfred boulton cyrus r hn ha K nelson henry fats R samuel S howar howard toward coward geo 0 wood sophia ashdown hyrum B parkin elizabeth W cleverly wm N atkinson ste stephen alien H ellis josephine warner bennett peterson C OR R labby jabey eliseian Elise El iseman naan T palmer wm J howard frank 13 smedley A W telford george E garrett robert E F I 1 hallord halford hyrum sessions jas 1 I atkinson emit emil feller james holbrook holb ook harry hayes john F zahler fran frankom oin R green john 11 bornio E Al merritt erritt egan 7 A albert R fisher orson P cooper john K N crosby thomas fearnley george wright ym nym R pickering elijah hayes amy F brown frederick E F pratt t jos hosan hogan alfred E fisher gilbert S at atch h john Thurgood Ole P peterson M P rockwood I 1 starns starlis hatch A N gardiner cardiner par diner john E hatch azrat ezra T hatch A U eldredge eldreda e ch cha s J hogan elizabeth R pratt G bertschey fer D W fenwick geo 0 quibell reuben moss mary aun ann putnam john east henry W stahle stable M 0 parrish et ai geo gen F gibbs wm win R wallace fab yan C water buyers in north davis county wm J barkdull henry anderson Ander sou heber A burton chas D hayes arthur G butcher But cLer wm win butcher janet J burton james W walker geo gen C G Manu manning ing robert green gleea ed wa i a ivr 11 5 3 l I 1 had son orson E harris W B ses robert J burton john A findlay chas J fernelius Fern eliu jas H davis eli manning geo A dickson christopher weaver bertha N doman AV 13 ses john G watson hyrum evans david A kerr george Y T beesley robert AM burton john F jaques lan lanthus tillus H barlow willard R harris tho thomas as L allen alien orson E harris archie 11 adams gaor george ge H adams albert anna al robert H beesley ernest galley gailey orson rose arthur hess annie P banuett ben bonnett uett george A welling hector W haight john H findley john davis J ihn D craig ca andrew W adams george love matt hew bambrough joseph W hess john H blood henry anderson george e A hill morgan brus bros co james Uri Ori adle rub ert ward josepe openshaw edward tar edmonds Edmond chas B tracy hannah marston george mcbride robert J firth george E garner reinder fuit fait daniel B harris elizabeth J griddle criddle caleb perry eva E ray john W galley gailey charles geo gen W kendell Ke adell david 0 green H J sheffield john H layton lay ton henry thornley charles sill john randall peter G li fornelius james 11 lythgoe ih B cods unilda H H chibas george W underwood joseph D harrod alex ririe phoebe harris douglas swan jesse jessed H barlow alex dawson jr elizabeth A bobbins rufus adams J 0 nye this is indeed an imposing 0 array of citizens und and it would appear to be I 1 enviable company but the total acreage here represented is far from being dent cleat I 1 to ta justify the construction of the canal many others must join them or the project fails and if it fails now the water fillia filiaga gs depended upon lapse and junior filings 0 designated 0 for other lands will jake ake off effect act and the opportunity to secure water from the weber river for lauds lands in davis county is forever passed opportunity knocks today at the door of davis county and it must be the end of the year whether or not she knocks in vain |